(d) Other religions, religious groups and religious communities

(vi) All religions, all religious groups and religious communities Nigeria.

The new Law on Religious Communities and Religious Groups was passed in July 1997.

On the one hand there are the religious communities, which operate on two levels between communities and within communities.

Like other religious communities, the latter also claim recognition of their religious days in the workplace.

However, religious ceremonies were also allowed for religious communities which had concluded a contract with the State.

Within this dominant religion, Anglicans and Catholics are the largest religious communities.

Religious reasons some communities practise female genital mutilation excision in the mistaken belief that the practice is a religious prescript

It is felt that passage of the new Law on Religious Communities and Religious Groups makes resolution of this issue even less likely.

36. The Deputy Prime Minister and President of the State Commission for Relations with Religious Communities have emphasized that Croatia fully supports religious freedoms and protects religious sites and property.

The Committee also recommended an information campaign for religious communities on the relevant building permit legislation, using the languages of the communities concerned.

Condemns without reserve all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur

This reservation stems from Israel's constitutional system and respect for religious pluralism, as well as its granting autonomy to religious communities in matters of personal status.

The international community must recognize the importance of engaging communities in the promotion of religious and cultural understanding and of eliminating all forms of religious intolerance.

5. Condemns without reserve all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur

(ii) In Georgia and Romania, the national Orthodox Church is said to have tried to restrict the activities of other religions and religious groups and religious communities

There should be equal access to public sector employment across the various ethnic, linguistic and religious communities.

Indeed, they were calculated not only to cause death and mayhem but to foment distrust between racial and religious communities and to provoke a backlash against Muslim communities.

The seven existing Krishna communities in Belarus have an autonomous status and are not subject to religious control.

The Law provides that religious services may be performed only by communities or groups registered by the Government.

(c) There are also reports of legal bans against certain religious groups and religious communities, particularly in the case of the Jehovah apos s Witnesses in Gabon and Indonesia

Several interviews with authorities, NGOs and the religious representatives of these communities revealed that there are no problem situations, either on the religious level or in society in general.

Several leading scientists, including one of the world s greatest biologists, E.O. Wilson, have reached out to religious communities to support the fight against human induced climate change and the fight for biological conservation, and those religious communities have reached back in harmony with science.

Israel upholds its reservation to article 16 regarding personal status laws due to commitments to religious communities in Israel.

176. Religious leaders have a special responsibility to contribute to the moral rebirth of communities torn apart by war.

56. The religious and civil representatives of the Christian communities have stated that, generally speaking, the authorities do not interfere with their internal religious activities, which may be carried on freely.

48. In Eritrea, the authorities allegedly plan to implement a declaration which would impose drastic restrictions on religious communities by prohibiting them from engaging in any activities other than religious services.

(i) In Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, China, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, the Russian Federation, Turkey and Uzbekistan, there are allegations that the authorities have imposed controls on or interfered illegally with the religious activities of all or certain religious groups or religious communities

In the present case, the Committee notes that the State party's law distinguishes between religious communities and religious associations, and that the possibility of conducting certain activities is restricted to the latter.

The possibility of benefiting from these exceptions explains why the main religious communities are opposed to a specific reference to the prohibition of religious discrimination in the laws of New South Wales.

(b) Other examples of violations of the principle of non discrimination are found in allegations concerning refusal to grant official recognition to certain religious groups and religious communities (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Latvia and Uzbekistan)

66. In Romania, the issue of restitution of religious property confiscated under the former regime has reportedly led to conflicts between religious communities and, in particular, between the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches.

Both these communities are fully integrated in society, but at the same time keen on preserving their cultural and religious identity.

It further rejects any denial of the Holocaust, and condemns without reservation all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur.

It further rejects any denial of the Holocaust and condemns without reservation all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur.

(v) All religions, all religious groups and religious communities except the official or State religion or the predominant religion Brunei Darussalam, the Comoros, Israel, Kuwait, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Oman, the Russian Federation, Somalia, Thailand and Yemen

43. Recognizes with deep concern the increase in anti Semitism, Christianophobia and Islamophobia in various parts of the world, as well as the emergence of racial and violent movements based on racism and discriminatory ideas directed against Arab, Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities, as well as all religious communities, communities of people of African descent, communities of people of Asian descent, communities of indigenous people and other communities

43. Recognizes with deep concern the increase in anti Semitism, Christianophobia and Islamophobia in various parts of the world, as well as the emergence of racial and violent movements based on racism and discriminatory ideas directed against Arab, Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities, as well as all religious communities, communities of people of African descent, communities of people of Asian descent, communities of indigenous people and other communities

In reference to certain aspects of personal status laws, Israel has entered a reservation due to commitments to various religious communities in Israel.

In the process of collection, preservation, research and diffusion of cultural values all ethnic groups and religious communities are equal before the law.

As UNESCO has pointed out, it requires the participation of all governmental and non governmental organizations, civil and religious communities and the media.

I spent a lot of time with various religious communities throughout America because I wanted it to be more than about my journey.

Seriously concerned also at the misuse of registration procedures as a means to limit the right to freedom of religion or belief of members of certain religious communities and at the limitations placed on religious publications,

Seriously concerned also at the misuse of registration procedures as a means to limit the right to freedom of religion or belief of members of certain religious communities, and at the limitations placed on religious publications,

These reports describe situations where State officials at different levels, often municipal, and different institutions (police, army) tried to convert members of religious groups, often of minority religious communities, or to force them to renounce their beliefs.