News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution states freedom of conscience and belief is inviolable, and it provides for the free exercise of religious beliefs. The constitution prohibits federal, state, and local governments from either supporting or hindering any religion. In March the Federal Supreme Court (STF) ruled animal...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion, freedom of religious practice, and state recognition of religious organizations, provided they do not contradict the constitution or the law. The government extends special benefits to nine traditional religious groups and more limited benefits to four...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and equal protection under the law regardless of religion. It prohibits all forms of religious intolerance and “religious fundamentalism." The law also requires the head of state to take an oath of office that includes a promise to fulfill the duties...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for the free exercise of all religions. Religious organizations may register as legal entities classified as religious associations and thereby acquire tax-exempt status and other government benefits. In August Muslim leaders reported members of their community regularly encountered...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Palo Alto Battlefield NHP is increasing recreational access visitor services. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution defines the country as a secular state. It provides for freedom of conscience, religious belief, conviction, expression, and worship and prohibits discrimination based on religious grounds. The Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), a state institution, governs and coordinates religious...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of belief and the right to practice, profess, and promote any religion. Some newly converted Muslim inmates lodged a complaint with the government’s Office of the Ombudsman that they were not allowed to update their religious...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Justin E. Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that Joseph Kyle Sanders, age 20, of Cleveland, was sentenced to 128 months imprisonment after being found guilty of armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for religious freedom and prohibits discrimination based on religion. In December the National Assembly passed legislation outlining alternative service options for conscientious objectors, although individuals who refused to serve or undertake alternative service continued...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: Key West, Fl. - Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Matthew J. DeSarno, Special Agent in Charge, FBI, Dallas Field Office, announced that Donald Howard Conkright, 63, a resident of the Florida Keys, was sentenced to 71 months in prison for laundering about $2,000,000 of a school district’s money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that David Youman, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael J. Juneau, to serve five years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Youman pled guilty on Jan. 23, 2020.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution and other laws provide for freedom of conscience, thought, and religion, and for freedom to change one’s religion or beliefs. Smaller churches continued to find the 750-member requirement for registration difficult to meet, although religious groups stated they could conduct most normal functions without registration.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS, Montana - At approximately 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 17, a concrete drop structure failed on the Bureau of Reclamation’s Milk River Project St. Mary Canal, northwest of the town of Cut Bank in northern Montana, located completely within the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion, with certain exceptions, and protection against governmental discrimination based on creed. The government reportedly remained concerned that unregulated churches from abroad were operating in the country. The government in March allowed a church led by a Malawian pastor to continue operating while the church appealed the 2017 cancellation of its registration.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The country’s constitution, in effect since Feb. 25, contains written provisions for religious freedom and prohibitions against discrimination based on religious grounds. According to human rights advocacy organization Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) and religious leaders, however, the Cuban...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, including the right to worship, alone or in community with others, and to change religion or belief. Although the law requires new religious groups to register, unregistered groups were...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion or belief and separation of government and religion. A religious freedom “roadmap" approved by parliament in 2018 to implement all 12 of the recommendations of UN Special Rapporteur on Religion or Belief Ahmed Shaheed simplified rules for registering...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion, with certain exceptions, and protection against governmental discrimination based on creed. The government reportedly remained concerned that unregulated churches from abroad were operating in the country. The government in March allowed a church led by a Malawian pastor to continue operating while the church appealed the 2017 cancellation of its registration.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of religion, including the freedom to practice, propagate, and give expression to one’s religion, in public or in private and alone or with others. Religious and civil society groups reported the government occasionally monitored...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and stipulates there shall be no state religion. It provides for freedom of belief, the right to practice and promote any religion, and to belong to and participate in the practices of any religious organization in a manner consistent with the constitution.
