News from August 2017
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion. Religious groups with memberships equal to or greater than 2 percent of the population are required to register with the government.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Steven W. Clyne, 70, of Meridian, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 27 months in federal prison for dealing firearms without a license and making false statements when purchasing firearms, Acting United States Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Clyne was convicted by a federal jury at trial in March of this year.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution provides for the right to practice or not to practice religion freely and prohibits discrimination based on religion. These and other rights may only temporarily be suspended or restricted in the event of a declaration of a state of war, siege, or emergency. The constitution prohibits...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution guarantees freedom of religion, and the law prohibits discrimination based on religious orientation. Federal law bans covering one’s face in public. Following the March 22 terrorist attacks at the Brussels airport and a metro station in downtown Brussels in which 32 civilians died and...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution bars the federal government from making any law that imposes a state religion or religious observance, prohibits the free exercise of religion, or establishes a religious test for a federal public office. In August the Australian Capital Territory parliament passed legislation making...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII), a publicly traded company headquartered in Newport, Virginia, has agreed to a $9.2 million settlement of allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly overbilling the government for labor on U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships at its...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion, freedom to change religion or belief, and freedom to express one’s religion or belief in worship, teaching, practice, and observance. Discrimination on the basis of religion is prohibited. Nondenominational “spirituality" classes, including morals, values...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution guarantees the freedom of religion, as well as the right to change one’s religion. It states everyone shall have the freedom to worship individually or with others, in private or in public. It also states the freedom to express one’s religious beliefs may be restricted by law only as ...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution guarantees freedom of religion and its public expression and prohibits compelling participation in religious ceremonies. Roman Catholicism is the state religion and state ceremonies often included Catholic rituals. Religious groups had to apply to the Minister of Interior to build a public place of worship. Optional Catholic religious instruction was available in public schools.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution protects the right of individuals to practice their religion and states religious groups are autonomous and independent from the state. The law, however, recognizes the “exceptional importance" of Orthodox Christianity. Minority religious groups and others reported the government continued ...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution guarantees every citizen “the right to freely profess and practice religion subject to public order, morality or health and to the other provisions of this Constitution." The law prohibits speech or acts insulting or defaming any religion or religious beliefs. Discrimination, harassment...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution and other laws prohibit religious discrimination and provide for freedom of religion and worship. In January the Rwanda National Police (RNP) shot and killed an imam while in custody. RNP officers shot and killed three other Muslim community members in August in Bugarama. The latter...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion, provides for freedom of belief, religion, and worship, and states no one “shall be obligated by coercive measures to declare his or her ideology or beliefs." The law requires the indoctrination of “Christian values" at the community...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of belief and the right to practice, profess, and promote any religion. In July nine South African Muslims were deported from the southern part of the country for allegedly engaging in “religious work" without having been admitted...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution, which is comprised of several basic laws, and policies, provide for religious freedom, including the right to manifest religion or belief in worship, observance, practice, or teaching, either individually or in community with others, and either in public or in private. The law prohibits...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: Prime Partners SA Will Pay $5 Million in Forfeiture and Restitution; Receives Non-Prosecution Agreement As a Result of its Extraordinary Cooperation.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The constitution protects freedom of religion and states the government will consider the religious beliefs of society and form cooperative relations with the Roman Catholic Church and other religious faiths. The government has a bilateral agreement with the Holy See that grants the Roman Catholic Church...
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and worship and equality for all, irrespective of religious belief. It grants religious groups autonomy and the right to teach their religion. Religious groups must register with the government.
By State Newswire | Aug 15, 2017
News Release: The Basic Law declares Islam to be the state religion but prohibits discrimination based on religion and protects the right of individuals to practice religious rites as long as doing so does not “disrupt public order or contradict morals." According to the law, it is a criminal offense to “defame" any...
