News from May 2018
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: The constitution, laws, and policies provide for religious freedom, subject to restrictions relating to public order, public health, and morality. The government continued to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (Unification Church). The government restricted...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: The constitution provides for the free practice of religious beliefs and self-governance by religious groups without government interference. By law all faith-based organizations must register with the government to acquire legal status as an association. The government campaign against forced child...
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: Experts at recognizing faces often play a crucial role in criminal cases. A photo from a security camera can mean prison or freedom for a defendant-and testimony from highly trained forensic face examiners informs the jury whether that image actually depicts the accused. Just how good are facial recognition experts? Would artificial intelligence help?
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: The constitution provides for the freedom to change religion or belief and the freedom to show and spread religious belief through worship, teaching, observance, or practice. The law designates the Ekalesia A Kelisiano Tuvalu (the Congregational Christian Church of Tuvalu or EKT) as the state church...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Rodolfo Joel Ulloa-Paz, 30, of Mexico, was sentenced today to 247 months in prison on carjacking and firearms offenses, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Subcommittee on Water, Power & Oceans Chairman Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) issued the following statement today as the United States and Canada begin negotiations to renew the Columbia River Treaty which balances Canadian Flood Control with U.S. Hydropower Production.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, federal, state, and local leaders joined with experts to highlight the devastating damage that illegal, public-land marijuana grows do to our national forests, the wildlife who inhabit them, and the streams and waterways that flow through them.
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion on the condition its practice does not violate public morality, decency, or public order. On November 9, the government’s recently established Constituent Assembly, which the opposition and much of the international community considers illegitimate, passed...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - On May 23, 2018, the United States District Court in the District of South Carolina entered judgment for the United States in the amounts of $111,109,655.30 against defendants LaTonya Mallory, Floyd Calhoun Dent III and Robert Bradford Johnson, and for an additional $3,039,006.56 against...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
Release: The Interim National Constitution (INC) provides for freedom of religious creed and the rights to worship, assemble, and maintain places of worship. Some laws and government practices are based on the government’s interpretation of a sharia system of jurisprudence, which human rights groups state does...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker and Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson today announced that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Sam’s West, Inc. (d/b/a Sam’s Club) have agreed to pay a total of $825,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and Minnesota False Claims Act by submitting claims for payment to Minnesota’s Medicaid program in violation of rules prohibiting Medicaid prescriptions from being automatically refilled.
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
Release: The constitution provides for “freedom of conscience and religion," prohibits discrimination based on religion, and mandates the separation of the activities of state and religious institutions. The law requires religious institutions to register with authorities and broadly describes registration procedures,...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
Release: The constitution recognizes Roman Catholicism as the state religion; the state is required by law to contribute to its maintenance. The constitution prohibits the state from impeding the free exercise of religions that does not impugn “universal morality or proper behavior" and provides for redress in...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination “without an acceptable reason," and provides for the right to profess and practice a religion, to express one’s convictions, and to decline to be a member of a religious community. The law prohibits breaching the sanctity of religion, which includes ...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: In the absence of a written constitution, the law establishes the Church of England as England’s state church and the Church of Scotland as Scotland’s national church. The law prohibits “incitement to religious hatred" as well as discrimination on the grounds of religion. The government stepped up security...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
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. In July the president hosted a national dialogue with religious organizations to promote cooperation among the different churches and the protection of religious freedom in the country.
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: The constitution bars the federal and state governments from adopting a state religion, prohibits religious discrimination, and provides for individuals’ freedom to choose, practice, propagate, or change their religion. Human rights groups continued to report the federal government often failed to prevent,...
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
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 | May 29, 2018
Release: The constitution grants freedom to practice, worship, and assemble for religious services. The law does not require registration of religious groups. A religious group, however, must register to be eligible for specific benefits such as recognition of clergy as marriage officers and tax exemptions. The constitution requires “the Sabbath," which the government takes to mean as Sunday, be “kept holy," and no business may be conducted on that day except that permitted by law.
By State Newswire | May 29, 2018
News Release: The constitution and the law protect the right of individuals to choose, change, and practice their religion. The president and other government officials condemned anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, and anti-Christian acts, and the government deployed 7,000 security forces to protect sensitive sites, including...
