News from May 2021
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides citizens with “the right and freedom to believe or not to believe in religion." The government officially recognizes four religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha’i Faith, with Buddhism paramount. Decree 315, issued in 2016 with the stated intent of clarifying...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion, including the freedom to worship and to change one’s religion. It prohibits discrimination based on belief. A colonial-era law criminalizing the practices of Obeah and Myalism remains in effect, but it is not enforced. In July, the Supreme Court ruled...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: Roman Narvaez Ansazoy was a Leader of a Drug Trafficking Organization Responsible for Producing Multi-Ton Quantities of Cocaine Destined for the United States.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion and prohibits discrimination based on religious belief. Relations between the government and religious organizations continued to improve, according to religious leaders and media reports. In April, NGOs and media reported 55 members of a “separatist religious movement" died in clashes with police after the group’s leader called on his followers to be “ruthless" in “chasing out" members of different ethnic groups.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: Two Indicted for $2 Million Scheme that Defrauded Over 20 Investors.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The transitional constitution provides for separation of religion and state, prohibits religious discrimination, and provides religious groups freedom to worship and assemble, organize themselves, teach, own property, receive financial contributions, communicate and issue publications on religious matters, and establish charitable institutions. In Juba, police detained a local religious leader in April for flouting COVID-19 social distancing regulations.
By DOE Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Energy Subcommittee Chair Bobby Rush (D-IL) released the following statements on the reintroduction...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, including the freedom to change religion. The law recognizes four religions: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. The constitution and other laws accord Buddhism the “foremost place" among the country’s religious faiths...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of Operation Clean Sweep, a four-month long operation initiated to protect children from falling victim to predators living within the Northern District of Oklahoma. The operation was carried out in partnership with more than a dozen local, state, tribal and federal law enforcement agencies.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution and other laws protect the right of individuals to choose, practice, profess, and change their religion. The law provides for freedom of religion and worship and provides for equal rights in accordance with the constitution and international law. The law requires religious groups to...
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 declares there is no state church and protects the freedom of individuals to practice their religion. It prohibits the incitement of religious hatred, violence, or discrimination. The law establishes registration of religious associations and religious societies and regulates their activities.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution establishes the separation of religion and state and the responsibility of the state to respect and protect legally recognized religious groups. In September, during a press conference, Attorney General Fernando Gomes expressed concern regarding what he said was an increase of verbal...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution provides for freedom of religion; both the constitution and the penal code prohibit discrimination based on religion. Any violation may be brought before a court of justice. Religious groups seeking financial support from the government must register with the Ministry of Home Affairs.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
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. According to media reports, a military officer threatened...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution guarantees freedom of religion and prohibits discrimination on the grounds of religion. It references Jesus Christ and God and stipulates the state shall respect religion. On Jan. 1, a law repealing the constitution’s prohibition on blasphemy entered into force. From March until June,...
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution defines the state as secular, prohibits religious discrimination, and provides for freedom of conscience, religion, and worship. The law requires religious groups to seek government recognition by meeting legally established criteria and allows the government to shutter the premises...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a commercial and residential painting business on Nantucket was sentenced yesterday in connection with an income diversion and payroll tax scheme resulting in a tax loss that exceeded $2 million.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2021
Release: The constitution recognizes equality for all regardless of religion, subject to considerations of public safety or health or the rights of others, and it stipulates the independence of the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) from the state. The constitution recognizes the “outstanding role" of the GOC in ...
