News from June 2019
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
Release: The constitution establishes the state as secular, prohibits religious harassment, and provides for freedom of religion and worship. Religious leaders stated that security forces battling armed Anglophone separatists in the Northwest and Southwest Regions killed three clerics. On several occasions, Christians...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
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 | Jun 21, 2019
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
News 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: Evidence Presented at the Sentencing Hearing Proved that the Defendant Committed Additional Murder related to his Gang Activity; Gang was Responsible for Seven Murders, along with Armed Robberies, Shootings, and Stabbings.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A husband and wife and their Findlay Market vendor have all been convicted of food stamp fraud. A jury returned the verdict today of guilty on all 25 counts following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Rose.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
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: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Douglas Charles Knicely, of Jane Lew, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months incarceration for his involvement in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury today found Jaimi Hawkins (51, Winter Springs) guilty of theft of government funds and making a false statement to a federal agency. Hawkins faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for the theft offense and up to 5 years’ imprisonment for the false statement offense. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for Sept. 2, 2019.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
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 | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religious thought and expression and prohibits religious discrimination in the workplace. Other laws protect individual religious freedom against abuses by government or private actors. The government began implementation of the nationality law passed in 2017...
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News 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 | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution recognizes Roman Catholicism as the state religion; the law requires the state to contribute to the Catholic Church’s maintenance. The constitution prohibits the state from impeding the free exercise of religions that do not impugn “universal morality or proper behavior" and provides...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News Release: Lake Powell boaters will welcome the good news that due to rising lake levels the Castle Rock Cut is now fully open to all vessels. The Castle Rock Cut is located about three miles due east of the Wahweap Developed Area, just over the Utah border between Wahweap Creek and Warm Creek Bays. The Castle...
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.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
Release: The constitution establishes a secular state and provides for freedom of religious thought, expression, and practice. All religious groups must register with the government. In February and March President Patrice Talon met with leaders of the Catholic Church, the Protestant Methodist Church of Benin (EPMB), the Islamic Union of Benin (UIB), and the Group of the Evangelical Church Association of Benin (CAEEB) to discuss government reforms and ways to defuse social discord.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2019
News 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
News Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion, with certain exceptions, and protection against governmental discrimination based on creed. In July President Mokgweetsi Masisi said he would begin to permit yearlong visas for missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Church of...
