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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
 Austria - FREEDOM OF RELIGION Country by Country
In December 1997, the Austrian Parliament passed a law which established a category of ‘second-class religions’ under the heading of “religious confession communities.” The law was created to make it exceedingly difficult for Baptists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Hindus, Scientologists and other minority religions in Austria to gain governmental recognition as a religion.
The OEVP is the sister party in Austria of the German Christian Democratic Union, the first national party ever to bar members of the Church of Scientology from membership solely because they are Scientologists.
Austria is a democracy with a Constitution which provides for freedom of religion.
religiousfreedom.freedommag.org /eng/page15.htm

  
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Although atheists are a small subset of this grouping, this category is not synonymous with atheism.
Narconon's clientele are not counted as Church members unless and until they become Scientologists.
Smaller groups within Islam include Sufis (although some Sufis regard their practice of Sufism as pan-denominational or non-denominational), Druze, the U.S.-based Nation of Islam (previously known as "Black Muslims"), and Ahmadiyya.
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 Major Religions Ranked by Size
Independent sources indicate that the strongest communities of Scientologists are in California and the United Kingdom, as well as in Clearwater, Florida (where the main training center is located).
While there is certainly overlap between this category and non-African primal-indigenous religious adherents, there are reasons for separating the two, best illustrated by focusing specifically on Yoruba, which is probably the largest African traditional religious/tribal complex.
Many Far Eastern ways of thought, in fact, were given the status of "world religion" while equally advanced religious cultures in technologically less developed or pre-literate societies (such as in Australia, Africa, South America, and Polynesia) were grouped together as pagans or "animists," regardless of their actual theology.
www.adherents.com /Religions_By_Adherents.html   (11821 words)

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