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  International Religious Freedom Report 2002: Spain
There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report, and government policy continued to contribute to the generally free practice of religion.
In 1992 agreements on cooperation with the State were signed by three organizations on behalf of Protestants, Jews, and Muslims; the organizations were the Federation of Evangelical Entities of Spain (FEREDE), the Federation of Israelite Communities of Spain (FCIE), and the Islamic Commission of Spain (CIE).
Embassy officials met with religious leaders of a number of denominations during the period covered by this report.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13982.htm   (1707 words)

  
 Islamic Precepts and Family Planning: The Perceptions Of Jordanian Religious Leaders and Their Constituents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Religious leaders were found to be less favorably disposed toward family planning than other elite groups (such as teachers and community leaders), but the authors did not compare religious leaders' responses with those of the general population.
Religious leaders also were asked about their public pronouncements regarding family planning, to which 36% replied that they had preached about family planning in the year preceding the survey.
Although religious leaders were not asked what they discussed, it is reasonable to assume that their conversations were favorable or reasonably favorable toward the practice of family planning, since 91% of those who reported that community members seek their advice regarding family planning believe that it is in keeping with Islamic precepts.
www.guttmacher.org /pubs/journals/2611000.html   (8639 words)

  
 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 1999: Vietnam
Officially recognized religious organizations are able to operate openly, and they must consult with the Government about their religious operations, although not about their religious tenets of faith.
Religious organizations must obtain government permission to hold training seminars, conventions, and celebrations outside the regular religious calendar, to build or remodel places of worship, to engage in charitable activities or operate religious schools, and to train, ordain, promote, or transfer clergy.
Religious and organizational activities by UBCV monks are illegal, and all UBCV activities outside private temple worship are proscribed.
www.vnhrnet.org /english/documents/us_report99.htm   (4551 words)

  
 Why Religion Matters:  The Impact of Religious Practice on Social Stability
Religiously, the mother was far more involved than her husband, the difference in regular religious participation between the addict's parents being twice that for the control's parents....
Religious leaders, who should be in the forefront of moral and spiritual renewal, have been cowed into a strange timidity.
Many religious leaders, with the best of intentions, have concentrated on the material aspects of their work, forgetting that the most powerful help they can give is in the spiritual dimension, and that this has a significant effect on material well-being.
www.heritage.org /Research/Religion/BG1064.cfm   (12513 words)

  
 STH | Library | Guides | Religion
A list of cross-references is provided in volume 1 although cross-references are scattered throughout the set.
This is a comprehensive study of all religious experience in North America although primary emphasis is given to developments in the United States.
Indexes to authors, religious movements, and subjects are found at the end of the volume.
www.bu.edu /sth/library/guides/religion.html   (2007 words)

  
 Forum 18 Search/Archive
Although religious communities denied registration have the possibility of challenging the denial through the courts, most prefer not to take that step, fearing that corruption in the court system and the closeness of the judicial system to the government will prevent a fair verdict.
Censorship of religious literature – which existed during the Soviet period – was continued in the 1992 religion law and its subsequent amended versions.
Symptomatic of officials' fear of religious freedom are the attempts to suppress accurate reporting of events through intimidation of believers and obstruction.
www.forum18.org /Archive.php?article_id=92   (1482 words)

  
 Spain
To enjoy the benefits of this regime, religious organizations must be entered in the Register of Religious Entities maintained by the General Directorate of Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Justice.
Their list of concerns includes public financing, expanded tax exemptions, improved media access, and fewer restrictions on opening new places of worship.
There were no reports of forced religious conversion, including of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the Government's refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2001/index.cfm?docid=5666   (1731 words)

  
 Women Rulers - Women in World History Curriculum
Intensely religious, she helped establish the Inquisition in Andalusia, which led to the expulsion from Spain of over 170,000 Jews.
A great military leader, Amina brought most of the other Hausaland city-states into her orbit, and is credited with encouraging them to surround themselves with huge defensive mud walls.
In 1974 she was elected leader of the Conservative Party, and brought her party to victory in 1979.
www.womeninworldhistory.com /rulers.html   (2005 words)

  
 Religious Intolerance in Germany
Public fears were greatly increased by a religiously motivated mass suicide-murder of members of the Solar Temple group in southeast France on 1995-NOV-16.
He indicates the he is not a Scientologist; he said that he does not have a religious faith, although he is tolerant of all.
Even though they concluded that new religious movements were not a threat to the state or its people, they recommend a number of actions to control, regulate and persecute small faith groups.
www.religioustolerance.org /rt_germa.htm   (3546 words)

  
 Religion of History's 100 Most Influential People
Was it not the influence of a Christian mother on her son, the leader of the Soviet Union, and a Christian American President, working with Mikhail Gorbachev that brought an end to the cold war.
His list is supposed to be about the most influential people, but he put Muhammad first because he was both a religious and military leader.
My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels...
www.adherents.com /adh_influ.html   (4283 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to the Inactive 2004 Democratic Presidential Prospects
The early response from labor union leaders, however, was warm praise mixed with pleas for him to remain in the Senate instead of running for President.
Gephardt's role as leader of the House Democrats for eight years created a natural, nationwide network of supporters and provided him with visible platform from which to be heard.
We moved Hardy to our "inactive" list because -- by March 2004 -- she had yet to qualify for any primary ballots and did not appear to be attempting to gain ballot access.
www.politics1.com /dems04.htm   (13615 words)

  
 The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion and Public Life (February 1992)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Many writers have urged religious persons participating in the public square to speak in a language that is accessible and understandable to those of other faiths and beliefs.
The translation of religious concepts into 'secular' or 'mediating' language is an attempt to live at peace and in dialogue in this mortal life with those of differing faiths and philosophies.
Let every religious leader in this land dedicate the next twelve months to teaching, preaching, and counseling the community at large on the reasons we are here and the ways to find meaning in life even when it is hard." That is from a statement on euthanasia issued by the Union for Traditional Judaism.
www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9202/public.html   (6547 words)

  
 friendly dictators
In January 1986, Christian Democrat leader Vinicio Cerezo was elected President and said he had "the political will to respect the rights of man", but it didn't take long to find out that his political will was irrelevant in the face of Guatemala's well-oiled military machine.
During regional elections in 1954, the Shah's agents raided a religious school and hurled hundreds of students to their deaths from the roof.
But eventually, the Shah was overthrown in 1978 by an indigenous people's revolution that held sway until fundamentalist religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile and reasserted his power during the 1979 US hostage crisis.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html   (9246 words)

  
 People For the American Way - Individual Donors
Unlike some libertarian and neoconservative donors who either shy away from cultural and religious issues, or at the very least are not explicit in their support, Howard Ahmanson Jr.
For example, Ahmanson, Hurtt and their two colleagues were the sole contributors to the Allied Business PAC (approximately $800,000 by September of 1992); about 70 percent of this was used to fund right-wing candidates.
In 1992, Hurtt was one of 53 activists recommended by televangelist Pat Robertson to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention from California.
www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=2062   (1154 words)

  
 The National Organization on Disability - Religious Participation
The Interfaith Directory is a list of religious leaders with disabilities of all faiths, who wish to foster communication with others in the religious community and the disability community.
Rabbi Landsberg's disability has fueled a new passion: in her part-time post as senior adviser on disability issues at the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Landsberg is working to raise awareness and encourage Jewish congregations to be more welcoming and accessible to people with disabilities.
The greater challenge is to ensure that people with disabilities are allowed and encouraged to fully participate in the life of the congregation, once they have crossed the (physical) threshhold.
www.nod.org /religion   (1947 words)

  
 Freedom of Religion or Belief
Published by the Human Rights Resource Center, the talking points are meant to help to preachers, teachers, religious leaders, prayer leaders, and any one who may want to engage their faith community in a discussion about the values of human rights and religion.
In 1991 and 1992 two committees comprised of non-governmental organizations were formed at the United Nations in New York and Geneva to support Article 18 and the 1981 UN Declaration.
Entries are divided by region and introduced by a regional overview; themes include the relationships between belief groups and the state, freedom of manifest belief in law and practice, religion and schools, religious minorities, new religious movements, the impact of beliefs on the status of women, and conscientious objection to military service.
www1.umn.edu /humanrts/edumat/studyguides/religion.html   (5920 words)

  
 Journalists in prison, 2004
This list represents a snapshot of all journalists incarcerated at midnight on December 31, 2004.
He was also a senior leader of the NLD and a close adviser to opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
In 1992, he was sentenced to an additional 10 years for "writing and publishing pamphlets to incite treason against the State" and "giving seditious talks," according to a May 2000 report by the Defense Ministry's Office of Strategic Studies.
www.cpj.org /Briefings/2005/imprisoned_04/imprisoned_04.html   (16532 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Wonder Land
Generally, the culture wars are thought to pit extreme believers on the "religious right," living primarily in the Southern states, against sophisticates in the urban North and far West.
In the North, where people get their information about life in the South mainly through a TV screen, the "religious right" came to life mainly as images of televangelists, such as Jimmy Swaggart, pourin' sweat and beggin' forgiveness, or Tammy Faye Bakker, mascara rivering down her face for similar reasons.
In the 1992 election, Bill Clinton got 75% of the secularist vote, while the current President's father received support from traditionalists (churchgoers) by 2 to 1.
www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/dhenninger?id=110004182   (1020 words)

  
 Guide to research in religious studies--UI Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This is a selected list of sources in the Reference collection at the Main Library that are useful starting points for research in
Sources that complement and supplement those listed in this bibliography may be located through the InfoHawk database and in the card catalog.
A broader list of religious periodicals, Oxbridge Directory of Religious Periodicals (Z7753.O92 1979 Reference Alcove 12) does not list where the journals are indexed.
www.lib.uiowa.edu /ref/religbib.htm   (1003 words)

  
 Of Prayer and Payback - Newsweek Campaign 2004 - MSNBC.com
In 1992 he'd used a prime-time speaking slot at the Republican convention in Houston to rail against abortion, homosexuality and a decadent American culture.
Realizing that conservative religious leaders like Robertson have been so demonized that they're lightning rods even among evangelicals, the Bushies relied on less divisive lieutenants to get the faithful to the voting booth.
Religious groups helped swamp Senate phone lines and e-mail boxes—Concerned Women for America sent anti-Specter missives to 80,000 supporters each day last week.
msnbc.msn.com /id/6479271/site/newsweek   (963 words)

  
 HRW World Report 1999: Cuba: Human Rights Developments
The papal visit provided unprecedented opportunities for public demonstrations of faith–in a country that imposed tight restrictions on religious expression in 1959 and was officially atheist until 1992–and was attended by an enormous international press contingent.
The same tribunal convicted Juan Carlos Recio Martínez, a local journalist with the Cuba Press agency whom Monteagudo Sánchez had asked to type the document, of failing to comply with his duty to denounce (incumplimiento del deber de denunciar) and sentenced him to one year in a labor camp without internment (correccional sin internamiento).
Prison authorities restricted inmates’ access to receiving religious guidance, in some cases with interrogations about their religious beliefs.
www.hrw.org /hrw/worldreport99/americas/cuba.html   (2239 words)

  
 U.N. plans to bring together 1,000 world religious leaders
The "working list" to be issued Tuesday will not include personages such as Pope John Paul II and probably not the Dalai Lama, who reports no invitation.
The Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders is organized by an "independent coalition" of interfaith leaders, and is being held in a year when nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, are seeking use of the General Assembly chamber more than usual.
The religious leaders are expected to issue a Declaration for World Peace and agree to some form of a permanent International Advisory Council of Religious and Spiritual Leaders.
www.ordination.org /together.htm   (1741 words)

  
 Religious Voices Worldwide
There is a tendency to treat religious condemnations of abortion as irrefutable.
Beneath the public anti-choice assertions of some religious officials there lies a diversity of opinion and much tolerance regarding the practice of abortion.
Rather, they have been chosen to illustrate the fact that, within diverse religious and philosophical traditions, religious leaders and thinkers have varying views on a woman's right to choose an abortion.
www.crlp.org /pub_fac_atkrel.html   (1906 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Guncrazy (1993): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Though not cast as a bad guy as his roles in movies usually call for, he brings this special talent to his screen persona.
He's done cult/religious leaders before (Never Say Die) with Frank Zagarino and Robin Smith (Solar Force).
Product offered violates Amazon.com's policy on items that can be listed for sale.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305232709?v=glance   (1702 words)

  
 American Women's History: Religion
Religious Women in the United States: Survey of the Influential Literature from 1950 to 1983.
Many of these general titles include appendices which list women by specific field of importance.
Women Religious History Sources: A Guide to Repositories in the United States.
frank.mtsu.edu /~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-rel.html   (909 words)

  
 Bush Lies...
I don't believe it." What follows, then, is an informal listing of just some of the lies he typically tells, starting from 2/01.
Now, of course, we all know that Gore lies, Lott lies, Cheney lies, etc. But the difference between those liars and Bush is the Resident tells us that he is telling the truth when he is lying.
But this month, Bush appointed to a top post in his Agriculture Department a confessed corner-cutter: a businessman who has admitted to pushing the limits of the law to boost his farm subsidies.
www.bushwatch.com /bushlies.htm   (7102 words)

  
 The Steelbands (Pan) of Trinidad and Tobago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A bands panyard address locates it within its respective zone, and the band will begin its preliminary competition rounds, from the selected stadia within that zone.
The lists of steelbands accompanying these pages; name the zones attributed to each band, and also show the bands, sorted according to their competition zone.
For the conventional bands however, where the attractions are grater, the regulation limit fell from 120 to 100 members for the 1998 competitions, much to the consternation of big band leaders.
www.seetobago.com /trinidad/pan/bands_tt.htm   (5332 words)

  
 Prodiversity, Antibias Programs
Establishes a context with good introductory material for the leader or parent and presents many specific activities for young children in classroom or other group settings.
An indispensable resource for youth coordinators, teachers, religious leaders, and community members who want an easily transferable and adaptable approach to creating dynamic, diverse, and productive communities.
Provides tools for families, religious educators, and UU congregations to celebrate in respectful, creative, and anti-bias ways.
www.uua.org /re/antibias.html   (2057 words)

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