News from June 2019
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 State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The Interim National Constitution 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 not...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced TRAWN JOVAL RODGERS, 39, of Greenville, North Carolina to 98 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, including the right to practice it in public and manifest religious opinions, and prohibits compulsory participation in religious services or observance of religious groups’ days of rest. Parliament adopted legislation banning all forms of face coverings,...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution and laws provide for freedom of religion and the right to profess freely one’s faith. The constitution provides the government will grant the Roman Catholic Church preferential legal status, but there is no official state religion. By law, public schools are secular, but private schools...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution codifies the separation of religion and the state, establishes freedom of religious choice, prohibits religious discrimination, and stipulates the government shall not interfere in the practice of any religion, nor shall any religion interfere in the affairs of the state. On January...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution protects freedom of religion and states the government shall 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 Catholic Church...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Boise, Idaho - Today, the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Fuel Breaks in the Great Basin for a 45-day public comment period. This Draft Programmatic EIS analyzes a system of up to 11,000 miles of strategically placed fuel breaks to control wildfires within a 223 million-acre area that includes portions of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Utah.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution provides citizens with “the right and freedom to believe or not to believe in religion." The government officially recognizes four religious umbrella groups - Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha’i Faith - and generally requires other religious groups to affiliate with one of...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion, freedom to change one’s religion or belief, and freedom to express one’s religion or belief in worship, teaching, practice, and observance. The constitution prohibits discrimination based on religion. Nondenominational “spirituality" classes, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), announced today that five stolen architectural drawings created...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: This section includes the West Bank and Gaza. In December 2017, the United States recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It is the position of the United States that the specific boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem are subject to final status negotiations between the parties.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News 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; authorities used these...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution stipulates the state is independent of religion and provides for “freedom of thought, spirituality, religion, and cult, expressed individually or collectively, in public and in private." The constitution and other laws give educational institutions the right to teach religion, including...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution provides for the right, individually or jointly with others, to adhere to any religion or to no religion, and to participate in religious customs and ceremonies. The constitution states both that “[t]he citizen shall have the right to participate in the creation of political parties...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Madison County physician pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to charges related to illegally distributing and dispensing prescription drugs, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution defines the country as a secular state and provides for freedom of religion. The Committee for Social Accord (CSA), part of the Ministry of Social Development (MSD), is responsible for religious issues. According to local and international observers, authorities imposed restrictions...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of conscience and religious worship and prohibits religious discrimination. It establishes Roman Catholicism as the state religion and mandates Catholic religious education in state schools, but allows students to opt out of the classes. In July the government postponed ...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitutions of the union government and of the semiautonomous government in Zanzibar both prohibit religious discrimination and provide for freedom of religious choice. Since independence, the country has been governed by alternating Christian and Muslim presidents. Sixty-one members of Uamsho...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - Two men from a north suburb of Chicago have been convicted of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham, a foreign terrorist organization also known as ISIS.
