News from June 2019
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religious belief and affiliation and states the country is not bound to any particular faith. Religious groups faced increased registration requirements, including the need to present a petition with signatures of at least 50,000 adherents, up from 20,000 in 2017 ...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution provides for religious freedom and prohibits the government from taking any action to compel, prohibit, or hinder the exercise of religion. On Jan. 11, the government commemorated the National Day of Prayer that “welcomes all expressions of religion, no matter of his or her choosing without reservation or reproach." The government invited all faiths and denominations to the Capitol for a program of prayers and singing praises.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Lame Deer resident Darrell Lee Whiteman, Jr., who admitted to fatally stabbing a person during an argument on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, was sentenced today to 73 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Kek Nyathor Bol, 21, of Anchorage, has been charged by criminal complaint with bank robbery and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, in connection with the June 15, 2019, robbery of Credit Union 1 located at 4020 Debarr Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Daniel B. Rudden, age 72 of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 121 months (just over 10 years) in federal prison, followed by 3 years on supervised release for mail fraud after he defrauded 175 investors out of more than $19...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution states that everyone has freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. It recognizes the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) as the national church and preserver of national identity but also establishes separation of “religious organizations" and the state. According to media, in March ...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution prohibits discrimination based on religious belief and protects religious liberty. The law officially recognizes five religious groups: Buddhists, Muslims, Brahmin-Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians. The Ministry of Justice allows the practice of sharia as a special legal process, outside...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution states that all people have freedom of belief and religion. The law provides for significant government control over religious practices and includes vague provisions that permit restrictions on religious freedom in the stated interest of national security and social unity. The 2016...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution declares the state shall respect all religions and shall ensure the freedom to perform religious rituals as long as these “do not disturb the public order." There is no official state religion. Membership in the Muslim Brotherhood or “Salafist" organizations is illegal and punishable...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution and other laws provide for freedom of conscience, thought, and religion, and for freedom to change one’s religion or beliefs. Smaller churches continued to find the 750-member requirement for registration difficult to meet, although religious groups stated they could conduct most normal functions without registration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND- Ten additional members of the criminal street gang, the Latin Dragon Nation, have been charged with racketeering conspiracy and other related offenses in a fourth superseding indictment unsealed today, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Virginia Tax Lobbyist Pleads Guilty to Filing a False Tax Return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Laurence Reinhard, 74, of Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania was convicted at trial of one count of making a false statement to a federal firearms licensee.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution provides for the right to choose, practice, and change one’s religion, and it defines the country as a Christian nation. There was a dispute between the government and the largest church over a new tax on the income of ministers of religion. In June, however, parliament adopted a law...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS- Wolf Point resident Andrew Preston Martell, who admitted he had been driving drunk when he crashed his vehicle and killed a passenger on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation last October, was sentenced on June 20 to 40 months in prison and to three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution and the law protect the right of individuals to choose, change, and practice religion. The president and other government officials again condemned anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, and anti-Christian acts, and the government continued to deploy 7,000 security forces to protect sensitive sites ...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religious belief and affiliation and states the country is not bound to any particular faith. Religious groups faced increased registration requirements, including the need to present a petition with signatures of at least 50,000 adherents, up from 20,000 in 2017,...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Since 1974, the southern part of Cyprus has been under the control of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus. The northern part, administered by Turkish Cypriots, proclaimed itself the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" (“TRNC") in 1983. The United States does not recognize the “TRNC," nor does...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of JEROME ROBERT HENNESSEY, 56, to 96 months in prison for mail fraud and income tax evasion. HENNESSEY, who pleaded guilty on Feb. 14, 2019, was sentenced earlier today before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution states there shall be “absolute freedom of conscience" and guarantees the free exercise of religious rites for all religious groups provided they do not disturb the public order. The constitution also states there shall be a “just and equitable balance" in the apportionment of cabinet...
