News from May 2021

By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
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. Government officials at the department and municipal levels have the authority to issue orders suspending certain types of religious...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for the free exercise of religion and religious worship and prohibits the establishment of a state religion. The law treats intentional attacks directed against religiously affiliated buildings or facilities as war crimes or crimes against international humanitarian law. The...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution declares the country a Christian nation but also has provisions that guarantee religious freedom and uphold the country’s multireligious composition. It prohibits religious discrimination and provides for freedom of conscience and belief. Government and ruling party officials politically...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides every person the right to “freedom of thought, conscience, and religion," and it 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. The government approved ...

By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and states all persons are equal before the law. It prohibits discrimination based on religion. The constitution grants automatic official recognition to the Roman Catholic Church and states other religious groups may also apply for official recognition...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides protections for religious freedom with “reasonable restrictions" to ensure public order and the rights of other individuals. The constitution provides for the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and belief and to the free exercise of religion.
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) raised concerns about U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s financial stake in Proterra, Inc, an electric vehicle company, and called on her to provide all documents and communications from Jan. 20, 2021 to present related to her divestiture of Proterra stocks.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion. Religious groups with memberships equal to or greater than 2 percent of the population are required to register with the government.

By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
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 does not impugn “universal morality or proper behavior," and it provides...

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jose A Solis-Pizarro, 35, and Mirelys Camacho Betancourt, 25, both of Buffalo, ...

By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted 14-8 on the nomination of Jocelyn Samuels to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 14-8 on the nomination of Seema Nanda to be Solicitor for the Department of Labor (DOL), ...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: In the absence of a written constitution, the law establishes the Church of England as England’s state church and the Church of Scotland as Scotland’s national church. The law prohibits “incitement to religious hatred" as well as discrimination on the grounds of religion. The Emergency Coronavirus Bill ...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution grants freedom to practice, worship, and assemble for religious services. The constitution requires the Sabbath, which the government defines as Sunday, be “kept holy" and prohibits most commercial transactions and many recreational activities on Sunday, except as permitted by law. The...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and belief. A concordat with the Holy See designates Roman Catholicism as the official state religion and extends to the Catholic Church special privileges not granted to other religious groups. These include funding for expenses, including administration...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution recognizes Buddhism as the state’s “spiritual heritage," provides for freedom of religion, and bans discrimination based on religious belief. The constitution states religious institutions and personalities shall remain “above politics." The law restricts religious speech promoting enmity...

By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution specifies the state is secular and protects the rights of all citizens to exercise their religious beliefs, consistent with the nation’s laws. Religious groups other than Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Muslims must register with the government. The government did not pass draft legislation...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and prohibits the government from taking any action to compel, prohibit, or hinder the exercise of religion. On Jan. 18, the government celebrated the annual National Day of Prayer that “welcomes all expressions of religion…without reservation or reproach.".
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and protects the right to choose, practice, or change one’s faith or life stance (belief in a nonreligious philosophy). It declares the Church of Norway is the country’s established church. The government continued to provide the Church of Norway with...

By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution designates Islam as the state religion but upholds the principle of secularism. It prohibits religious discrimination and provides for equality for all religions. On March 12, a Bangladesh Speedy Trial Tribunal convicted and sentenced to death four Muslim defendants of the group Jamaatul...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution prohibits religious discrimination and grants individuals freedom of religion in conformity with the law. In September, the transition government formed after an August military coup adopted the Transition Charter, which recognized the continued validity of the 1992 constitution that...