News from June 2019
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution prohibits discrimination on any grounds as well as laws establishing any religion. It provides for freedom of religion, including the right of individuals to change, manifest, and propagate their religion. Through the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Act, the government continues...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution declares the country a Christian nation; the constitution also prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of conscience, belief, and religion. Prominent religious groups continued to state the government should not be involved in religious affairs, such as organizing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Gloucester man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to bank robbery.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution protects freedom of religion and the right of religious communities to establish their own institutions. The constitution specifies the state and the Catholic Church are independent, their relations governed by treaties, including a concordat granting the Church a number of privileges...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution defines the state as secular, prohibits religious discrimination, and provides for freedom of religion. The religious freedom law requires religious groups to seek government recognition by meeting legally established criteria. There are 81 recognized religious groups and more than 1,000...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution states the state is secular, prohibits religious discrimination, and provides for the right of individuals to choose and profess their religion. The High Authority of Communication banned three private radio stations from activity, stating it considered these stations as having a “denominational"...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution prohibits discrimination based on religion and provides for freedom of conscience, religion, belief, and thought. Rastafarian children continue to be denied enrollment in public school unless they shaved their dreadlocks. A test case remained pending and, by court order, the child involved...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News 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 states freedom of religious conscience is inviolable and provides for freedom of worship with some restrictions. It recognizes Greek Orthodoxy as the “prevailing religion." The law prohibits offenses violating “religious peace," including blasphemy and “religious insult," punishable ...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and protects the right to choose, practice, or change one’s religion. A hate crime law punishes some expressions of disrespect for religious beliefs. The Council of Religious and Life Stance Communities (STL), an umbrella organization for religious...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution declares Islam to be the religion of the state but declares freedom of belief is “absolute." It declares the state will protect the freedom to practice one’s religion, provided such practice does not conflict with established customs, public policy, or morals. Defamation of the Abrahamic...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, JAMIE PAUL EARLY, age 36, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced to forty-one months of imprisonment for violating federal law by committing a bank robbery on July 27, 2018 at the Capital One Bank at 3001 Tulane Avenue in New Orleans. Additionally, EARLY must serve (3) years of supervised release and pay a !00.00 special assessment fee.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution states freedom of religion is a fundamental right; individuals have the right to practice freely the religion of their choice or to practice no religion at all. The law prohibits discrimination based on religion. Practice of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean belief system with some similarities...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A grand jury returned a superseding indictment on Thursday that added money laundering charges to six defendants first charged in 2017 in a scheme to use money from China to buy houses to grow marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of conscience and the right of all individuals to freely profess, practice, and propagate religion; mandates a secular state; requires the state to treat all religions impartially; and prohibits discrimination based on religion. It also states citizens must practice...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution designates Islam as the state religion but upholds the principle of secularism. It prohibits religious discrimination and provides for equality for all religions. The government continued to provide guidance to imams throughout the country on the content of their sermons in its stated...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The law and unimplemented constitution prohibit religiously motivated discrimination and provide for freedom of thought, conscience, and belief as well as the freedom to practice any religion. The government recognizes four officially registered religious groups: the Eritrean Orthodox Church, Sunni Islam,...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and belief and prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion. The government does not require religious groups to register; however, registered groups receive tax-exempt status. In September Rastafarians welcomed a Constitutional Court ruling that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Edward Leonard Wells, Jr. (34, North Carolina) to two years and eight months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. On April 18, 2019, Wells’s estranged wife, Alcira Mercedes Wells (34...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution states Islam is the “religion of the Federation; but other religions may be practiced in peace and harmony." Federal and state governments have the power to mandate doctrine for Muslims and promote Sunni Islam above all other religious groups. Other forms of Islam are illegal. Those...
