News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits discrimination based on religion and provides for freedom of conscience, religion, belief, and thought. In October a standoff between an Anglican parish and Muslim communities in Balaka District over the wearing of hijabs by Muslim female students led to four government-funded...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney Bill Powell of the Northern District of West Virginia today announced that Ohio County received $58,008 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits restrictions on freedom of conscience and belief, as well as forcing an individual to espouse a religious belief contrary to the individual’s convictions. It stipulates all religions are independent from the state, and religious groups have the freedom to organize “in accordance ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Senate Finance Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-IA), and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) commended the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for taking...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits discrimination on any grounds as well as laws establishing any religion. It provides for freedom of religion, including the right of individuals to change, manifest, and propagate their religion. Although the constitution prohibits compulsory religious education, some non-Catholic...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution provides for the right to practice or not to practice religion freely and prohibits discrimination based on religion. These and other rights may temporarily be suspended or restricted only in the event of a declaration of a state of war, siege, or emergency. The constitution prohibits...
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 states Buddhism is the state religion, and it is promoted by the government through holiday observances, religious training, Buddhist instruction in public schools, and financial support to Buddhist institutions. The law provides for freedom of belief and religious worship, provided...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and protects the freedom of individuals to profess their religion or belief. It is a crime to engage in public speech inciting religious hatred. In August the government implemented a ban of face coverings in schools and some public spaces, but institutions...
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 provides for freedom of religious belief and practice, as long as it is not prejudicial to good morals or public order, and it protects the right to form religious associations. It names the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC) as the state church, to which the government provided financial...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Scott Eckrote, age 36, of Granville, New York, appeared in federal court this week on charges that he distributed and possessed child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Glendale man pleaded guilty today to a federal fraud charge for opening more than a dozen bank accounts, knowing that they would be used to launder fraudulently obtained tax refunds obtained by filing tax returns under stolen identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: An indictment was returned today charging a doctor with illegally prescribing controlled substances, resulting in the death of a patient. The doctor was also charged in twenty-two separate counts of illegally prescribing prescription drug controlled substances to several different patients, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - According to a federal indictment filed today, the woman accused of shooting a Columbus police officer during a search warrant on May 28 also allegedly possessed in her home fentanyl, nine firearms, nearly $20,000 in cash, 13 cell phones and multiple magazines of ammunition. An additional firearm was found in her car.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
Release: Historical and modern constitutional documents provide for freedom of religious belief and affiliation and prohibit religious discrimination. The law bans public incitement to hostile acts against religious groups and classifies registered religious groups into one of three categories: religious societies,...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Senate Finance Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-IA), and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) commended the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for taking...
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 “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 grants individuals freedom to profess and practice any religious belief but prohibits religious activities directed against the sovereignty of the state, its constitutional system, and “civic harmony." The law recognizes the “determining role" of the Belarusian Orthodox Church (BOC) ...
