News from June 2019
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religious belief. The 2014 Report of the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in the DPRK, however, concluded there was an almost complete denial by the government of the rights to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, and in many instances,...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution provides for freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, including the freedom to change religion. The law recognizes four religions: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. The constitution and other laws give Buddhism the “foremost place" among the country’s religious faiths...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
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
News 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
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. Members of the armed forces fired on Shia Muslims participating in the Arba’een Symbolic...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News 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 guarantees freedom of conscience and religion and bans religious groups from undertaking actions inciting religious hatred. It establishes the separation of religion and state and prohibits pursuit of political goals by religious groups. The law requires all religious groups to register...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: The constitution protects “the freedom to practice one’s religion alone or in the company of others" and prohibits discrimination based on religion. The government more than doubled security funding for religious organizations. Christian organizations stated the Migration Agency denied asylum to Christians...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the Council on Environmental Quality's (CEQ) proposed National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) guidance on the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
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
News Release: The constitution provides for freedom of conscience, which includes freedom of thought and religion, subject to the interests of defense, public safety, order, morality, and health, and to the protection of other persons’ rights and freedoms. The law prohibits religious discrimination and allows all...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution guarantees the right of individuals to worship according to their beliefs. It establishes the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC) as the national church, which has privileges not available to other religious groups. Other religious groups must register with the government to receive tax...
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 State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: According to the 1992 Basic Law of Governance, the country’s official religion is Islam and the constitution is the Quran and Sunna (traditions and practices based on the life of the Prophet Muhammad). The legal system is based largely on sharia as interpreted within the Hanbali School of Sunni Islamic...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution provides 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 discrimination based on religious belief. In response to 2017 media reports that a little-used...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An international narcotics trafficker from the Dominican Republic and a narcotics trafficker from New York City were sentenced today to a combined 17 years in prison for their respective roles in a multi-million dollar conspiracy to purchase 100 kilograms of cocaine.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution stipulates everyone is free to choose his or her faith. It makes the state responsible for “protecting the religious…interests of the People" and establishes Roman Catholicism as the state religion. It stipulates other religions may practice their faith within the bounds of morality...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Today, 11 House Committee chairs sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney in opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to redefine the poverty threshold-a move that would drastically shrink eligibility for public programs such as Medicaid, housing assistance, and free school meals.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Recently, two children who have attended Kaibab Learning Center (KLC) located at Grand Canyon National Park, developed illnesses possibly caused by the bacteria Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib). Haemophilus influenzae type B is a bacteria that is found only rarely in the nose and throat of children and adults. People can have the bacteria in their bodies but not become ill. For more information about Hib go to CDC at.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Arlington man was sentenced today to six and a half years in prison for orchestrating multiple fraud schemes that resulted in total losses of approximately $20 million.
