News from June 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and Environment Chairwoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., applauded today’s announcement on U.S.-based clearinghouses from U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Heath Tarbert.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Boy Found Dead in Car After Six Hours in Summer Heat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Two Former EarthWater Executives Plead Guilty for Investment Fraud Scheme Targeting Elderly Victims.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: APHIS updated the to include the following changes:APHIS restricts the movement of domestic soil from areas within the continental United States that are under quarantine for specific plant pests. The Federal Domestic Soil Quarantines Map provides an overview of the plant pest quarantines that affect ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, June 10, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced approval of a request from Mississippi to provide online purchasing of food to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households. This approval will allow Mississippi to expedite the implementation of...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
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 Secretariat General of Religious Affairs (SRA) continued to issue weekly themes for inclusion in Friday sermons at mosques and Sunday sermons...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and each of the country’s two entities - the Federation of BiH (the Federation) and Republika Srpska (RS) - provide for freedom of religious thought and practice, prohibit religious discrimination, and allow registered religious organizations to operate...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The law prohibits religious discrimination and restrictions on religious freedom and provides for prosecution of religious hate crimes. Religious groups recognized by the government are eligible to receive contributions from income tax earmarked by individual taxpayers. The law requires Catholic religious...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of religion and worship consistent with public order, social peace, and national unity. It provides for the separation of state and religion and prohibits religiously affiliated political parties. The government continued to...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and prohibits discrimination based on religious belief. Relations between the government and religious organizations markedly improved in 2019, following the inauguration of President Felix Tshisekedi in January, according to media reports. In contrast to the previous year, there were no reports of government repression or intimidation of religious organizations engaged in political activities.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, a supplement to the constitution, guarantees freedom of religious conviction and states everyone has the right to change, abstain from, and freely practice religion. The Ministry of Culture (MOC) registered one religious group and rejected the registration...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination “without an acceptable reason" and provides for the right to profess and practice a religion and to decline to be a member of a religious community. The law prohibits breaching the sanctity of religion, which includes blasphemy, offending that which ...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of thought and religion, as well as the right to practice and change one’s religion or belief. The government completed construction on a first-ever public Rastafarian-run school, at which vaccinations are not required for school entry. The government announced that,...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and conscience. Religious groups may worship without registering, but registered groups receive benefits. The constitution recognizes Eastern Orthodox Christianity as the country’s “traditional" religion, and the law exempts the Bulgarian Orthodox Church ...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides all persons the right to religious freedom, including the right to engage in religious ceremonies and acts of worship. Article 40 of the constitution declares the country a secular state. Under the constitution, indigenous communities enjoy a protected legal structure, allowing...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution designates Islam as the official religion. It guarantees freedom of worship as long as it does not conflict with public policy or morals. It states all persons are equal before the law and prohibits discrimination on grounds of religious belief. The law prohibits blasphemy, proselytizing...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution defines the country as an Islamic republic and specifies Twelver Ja’afari Shia Islam as the official state religion. It states all laws and regulations must be based on “Islamic criteria" and an official interpretation of sharia. The constitution states citizens shall enjoy human, political,...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and prohibits discrimination based on religion. In May a High Court decision ruled unconstitutional the government’s ban on the private use of marijuana, including for religious activities, which affects some practitioners of Rastafarianism. In August...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution bars the federal government from making any law that imposes a state religion or religious observance, prohibits the free exercise of religion, or establishes a religious test for a federal public office. In August the government released draft religious freedom laws whose stated aim...
