News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution establishes the state as secular, prohibits religious harassment, and provides for freedom of religion and worship. According to media, security officers combating Anglophone separatists in the Northwest and Southwest Regions killed Christians and clergymen and attacked places of worship.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of religion, subject to limitations to ensure public order, health, and safety or to protect the rights of others. The law does not provide a means for religious groups to acquire legal status. The Kosovo Assembly (parliament)...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides every person the right to “freedom of thought, conscience, and religion," and specifies the separation of church and state. By law, eight “traditional" religious groups (seven Christian groups and Jews) receive rights and privileges other groups do not. In addition, six new...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for religious freedom, including the freedom to change religions, proselytize, and establish religious schools. Laws “reasonably required" to achieve certain listed public goals may restrict these rights. As of year’s end, the Constitutional Review Committee had not finalized...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution declares Islam to be the official religion and sharia to be a principal source for legislation. It provides for freedom of conscience, the inviolability of places of worship, and freedom to perform religious rites. The constitution guarantees the right to express and publish opinions,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: PayPal accounts linked to websites that fraudulently sold masks during COVID-19 outbreak.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Twelve defendants are in custody after a DEA operation led to several arrests this morning as part of a federal drug investigation. Operation Mad Hatter has resulted in the identification of multiple drug traffickers and the seizure of large quantities of cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetamine, and heroin.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution establishes the state as secular and affirms the separation of religion and state. It provides for freedom of religion and equality before the law without distinction as to religion. It prohibits “denominational propaganda" that inhibits national unity. The government maintained its...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - Late last evening the U.S. Marshals arrested fugitive Douglas Carl Smith, Jr., 31 years-of-age, in West Charleston, Vermont. Smith was being sought on multiple outstanding arrest warrants out of New Hampshire including; aggravated felonious sexual assault, 2nd degree assault, bail violations...
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 prohibits religious discrimination and grants individuals freedom of religion in conformity with the law. The law criminalizes abuses against religious freedom. Notwithstanding these legal protections for religious freedom, widespread insecurity stifled full implementation of laws protecting...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service today announced $1.9 million in grants to 12 Indian tribes and 18 museums to assist in the consultation, documentation, and repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural items as part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
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 State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
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 religious associations shall be separate from the state and “shall not interfere in state affairs."...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Department Extends Additional Flexibility for Feeding Children (Washington, D.C., June 10, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced a nationwide extension of another key flexibility for USDA’s child nutrition programs. This waiver allows local partners, who have been working ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Pandemic EBT to Feed Children during COVID-19 National Emergency (Washington, D.C., June 10, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the US Virgin Islands have been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: USDA is expanding access to innovative online food purchase program (Washington, D.C., 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. ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: USDA is expanding access to innovative online food purchase program (Washington, D.C., June 10, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced approval of a request from Delaware to provide online purchasing of food to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households. This ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced his departure from the department today, effective as of July 3, 2020. “Brian has served the Department with distinction,” said Attorney General William P. Barr. “This was his sixth senior leadership ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: A California couple pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to commit mail fraud and tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Robert S. Brewer, Jr. for the Southern District of California.
