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  Uzbekistan
It restricts religious rights that are judged to be in conflict with national security, prohibits proselytizing, bans religious subjects in schools, prohibits private teaching of religious principles, forbids the wearing of religious clothing in public by anyone other than clerics, and requires religious groups to obtain a license to publish or distribute materials.
In 1999 the international nongovernmental organization (NGO) Human Rights Watch compiled a list of 28 confirmed cases from 1997 and 1998 in which university and secondary school students were expelled for wearing religious dress.
In August 1999, he was released after the Supreme Court overturned his conviction on the basis of the promised amnesty; however, he was rearrested in the summer of 2000.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2001/5724.htm   (6245 words)

  
 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.
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, which is updated regularly.
In 1999 the Salvation Army was unable to obtain a permit to open a children's center in Tenerife; the group submitted a new application, but had not received a response by the end of the period covered by this report.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13982.htm   (1707 words)

  
 Major Religious Leaders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This list of major prophets is Bear's attempt to describe the perspective of somebody living about 100 years in the future.
Lists prepared by writers with a different background, or written from a different perspective, would probably be different.
Philosophers, Religious Leaders, Moralists, Theologians, Missionaries, Philanthropists - From BeMoreCreative.com.
www.adherents.com /adh_leaders.html   (812 words)

  
 1999 Online Research :: Information about 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lists of leaders: List of state leaders in 1999 - List of religious leaders in 1999
Y2K preparation was a major event in 1999 both in actual events and in media over-reporting.
Kurd rebel leader Abdullah calan is charged with Treason in Ankara, Turkey.
in-northcarolina.com /search/1999.html   (4272 words)

  
 Major Religions Ranked by Size   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The list was created by the same people who collected and organized this database, in consultation with university professors of comparative religions and scholars from different religions.
This list is based primarily on the degree of doctrinal/theological similarity among all the various sub-groups which belong to these classifications, and to a lesser extent based on diversity in practice, ritual and organization.
As is typical with a religious group made up primarily of converts, Baha'is who drift from active participation in the movement are less likely to retain nominal identification with the religion -- because it was not the religion of their parents or the majority religion of the surrounding culture.
www.adherents.com /Religions_By_Adherents.html   (11821 words)

  
 BasicFellowship.com : Prisoner List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He was the leader of Eritrea’s Full Gospel Church, which is comprised of 120 to 150 house meeting groups.
After his conversion he was first arrested in 1999 and convicted of preaching the gospel, being a traitor to the nation and speaking badly about the nation.
He was arrested September 25, 2004 when mosque leaders saw the cross he was wearing and questioned him as he visited the restroom during a break on a bus ride.
www.persecution.com /basic/prisonerList.cfm?Country=ALL   (1643 words)

  
 Archived: Guidelines for School Officials, Volunteers and Mentors Participating in Public School Community Partnerships
When members and leaders of faith communities volunteer in schools or volunteer to work with students and their families, they should and must act with the same understanding of the First Amendment as school officials have.
A religious leader who is asked by school officials to participate in crisis counseling should respond to the direct concerns of the students at a time of great sensitivity.
At the same time, a religious leader cannot use the occasion to proselytize on behalf of his or her own faith or encourage a student to attend the following week's service.
www.ed.gov /inits/religionandschools/v-guide.html   (1329 words)

  
 Eastern Patriarchates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 544, Jacob Baradaeus (a Monophysite leader) consecrated Sergius of Tella as Patriarch in opposition to the Imperial-backed Orthodox candidate.
During the ascendancy of the Mongols, many notable leaders, including Hulegu (the first Ilkhan), belonged to this church, and though reliable statistics are not available, it is likely that this church, whose remnants today number at most a few million, boasted the largest population of any Christian denomination.
This list is an attempt to reconcile the two lists but dates given before 1700 should be regarded as approximations.
www.hostkingdom.net /orthodox.html   (1948 words)

  
 HRW World Report 1999: United States: Human Rights Developments
The United States led the list with nine executions between 1990 and 1998, one-half of the known worldwide total for the period.
There were improvements in the way the U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women, Radhika Coomaraswamy, was treated by federal officials during her June 1998 investigation of human rights abuses of women in custody, including prisons and INS detention centers, but Michigan officials would not allow her to visit prisons in that state.
After Special Rapporteur Ndiaye released a report in April 1998 that was highly critical of the application of the death penalty in the U.S.—and called for a moratorium on its use, echoing a similar call by the American Bar Association—U.S. officials dismissed the report as unnecessary and inaccurate.
www.hrw.org /worldreport99/usa   (5114 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Iraq was dropped from the list in the wake of the United States-led coalition’s toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
In the State Department’s annual religious freedom report or in Hanford’s statement, violations in the other CPCs were described: -- Vietnam: The conditions for ethnic minority Protestants and some independent Buddhists deteriorated in the time period covered by the State Department report.
There were reports Christians and other religious adherents were imprisoned, tortured and executed for their faith.
www.bpnews.net /storydownload.asp?ID=19138   (908 words)

  
 Families USA: Related Links
Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action was founded in 1999 as a national research and advocacy organization to help create a new long-term vision for American society.
The coalition has three goals: to promote mental health care that is pro-patient and that preserves a patient's right to choice, personal privacy, and control over mental health treatment; to expose the problems and abuses of managed care; and to bring about needed regulation of the managed care industry.
Through education and interaction with its grassroots network, the Parkinson's community, scientists, policy and opinion leaders, and the public at large, PAN advocates for increased and accelerated investment of federal funding to ease the burden and bring a cure to the 1 million Americans who suffer from Parkinson's.
www.familiesusa.org /site/PageServer?pagename=Related_Links_Index   (4600 words)

  
 Religious leaders ask Senate to raise level of debate - January 5, 1999
Religious leaders ask Senate to raise level of debate
WASHINGTON (January 5) -- With the U.S. Senate preparing for its historic impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, moderate religious leaders have called for senators to raise the level of discourse above the personal attacks sometimes heard during the debate by the House of Representatives.
Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said that more civilized debate does not mean less vigorous debate.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/01/05/civility   (570 words)

  
 RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN THE NEWS
We also have a list of news items related to religious tolerance and peace.
If this list were available in the past, it would have dealt with the great ethical question(s) of the day.
Not included in either list are reports of the actions of millions of devout believers of all faiths, who, day after day, help the hungry, homeless, broken and hurting throughout the world.
www.religioustolerance.org /intol_news.htm   (761 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.
For the same reason, party leaders are excluding him from the debates -- even though he qualified for federal matching funds and raised over $5 million as of fall 2003 (which placed him ahead of Clark, Kucinich, Braun, and Sharpton in the money hunt).
www.politics1.com /dems04.htm   (13615 words)

  
 Religious Resources for Scout Leaders on the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Here are a some great links to prayers, graces, inspirations and other religious resources for Boy Scout and Girl Scout Leaders on the internet.
A list of dates and religious observances that must be adhered to by the individual.
The chaplain and chaplain aide have an opportunity to be a friend to the Scouts and leaders and to contribute to their spiritual welfare and growth.
www.naums.org /ministry/resorces.htm   (390 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)

  
 Freedom of Religion or Belief
Article 13: This article ensures the religious and moral education of children in conformity with the wishes of parents or legal guardians, and uses the phrase “full development of human personality and respect for human rights” found in other human rights instruments.
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.
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)

  
 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)

  
 Journalists in prison, 2004
This list represents a snapshot of all journalists incarcerated at midnight on December 31, 2004.
A word about how this list is compiled: In totalitarian societies where independent journalism is forbidden, CPJ often defends persecuted writers whose governments view them as political dissidents rather than as journalists.
He was also a senior leader of the NLD and a close adviser to opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
www.cpj.org /Briefings/2005/imprisoned_04/imprisoned_04.html   (16532 words)

  
 About HRI
The report notes that, on 14 March 1999, talks between representatives of the Taliban and the UF were begun and eventually led to an agreement on power sharing and a permanent cease fire.
Highlanders were harassed and intimidated by military per-sonnel when they observed illegal logging on their traditional lands; villagers were used by loggers, through intimidation or bribery, to indicate the most valuable trees in their areas, which were then cut; once logging permits were granted they were used for much larger volumes than indicated.
The report notes that in January 1999 the Prime Minister stated that action was being taken to implement the ban on logging and, further, that military involvement in logging would end and that existing unused concessions would be reviewed.
www.hri.ca /uninfo/unchr99/report8.shtml   (10162 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: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why: The 1999 Government Report on Profiling Terrorists: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why is the shocking landmark 1999 government study that predicted who would terrorize the United States and how they would do it.
The study also shows what means terrorists have used thus far to bring their vision into reality, means ranging from kidnapping, hijacking, and sabotage, to the use of nerve gas.
The Appendix of the book lists many major terrorist groups, their leaders, and what each particular groups ideals and goals are.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585747548?v=glance   (1059 words)

  
 The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD
In fact, it is dedicated to a Jew, the late Dr. Israel Shahak, a survivor of the concentration camps during WWII and a leader of the Israeli Peace Movement.
Shindler’s list and all the every-5-minutes Holocaust mentions are calculated to produce the utmost in hatred in Jews toward genitles, and yes, I agree, gentile guilt.
Jewish leaders in Ukraine are condemning the actions of a major university in Ukraine (MAUP) for awarding a full doctorate to the notorious American anti-Semite David Duke.
www.davidduke.com   (10474 words)

  
 Master's Divinity School Accelerated Seminars Schedule
This course will help to equip those charged with God’s true Mission in the 21st century to be competent to effectively deal with the core issues of Islam, and to fearlessly love Muslims into His kingdom.
, veteran leader in the pro-life movement, and nationally recognized authority in the area of post-abortion counseling for men.
Listed seminars that do not show an audit fee are not open for audit students.
www.mdivs.edu /seminars.html   (4316 words)

  
 ipedia.com: List of religious leaders in 2003 Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
2002 religious leaders - Events of 2003 - 2004 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year See also: List of state leaders in 2003 List of international organization leaders in 2003 List of colonial...
List of religious leaders in 2003 Article - ipedia.com
2002 religious leaders - Events of 2003 - 2004 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year
www.ipedia.com /list_of_religious_leaders_in_2003.html   (649 words)

  
 Rulers
This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases.
Recent foreign ministers of all countries are listed separately.
Without the advance express written permission of Rulers.org, you may not send, or cause to be sent, any automated queries of any sort to the Rulers.org site, or use the site in any commercial manner.
rulers.org   (629 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The plaintiff in the case is Cynthia Simpson, a Wiccan who asserts that the Board's refusal to add her to a list of volunteer clergy who give the invocations constitutes illegal religious discrimination and an unconstitutional government promotion of religion.
Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, asks that Simpson be added to the list of clergy volunteers or that the Board discontinue invocations altogether.
Americans United is a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, the organization educates Americans about the importance of church-state separation in safeguarding religious freedom.
www.goddessmoon.org /discrimination/currents/acluva122002.shtml   (589 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 O'Neill did sell Alcoa stock, 662,547 shares in April 1999 worth nearly $30 million, when he was the company's chairman and chief executive....
www.bushwatch.com /bushlies.htm   (7102 words)

  
 Multifaith and Religion Sites List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
An NGO that works in service of a vision of a healed world, where people of all faiths, traditions and colors can come together with mutual respect, and where the rapidly vanishing voices of the traditional wisdomkeepers of the Earth are heard and respected.
The DRBA is a religious community with members in the United States and Canada, in Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere.
Neturei Karta deplore the systematic uprooting of ancient Jewish communities by the Zionists, the shedding of Jewish and non-Jewish blood for the sake of Zionist sovereignty and the Neturei Karta favor a peaceful transition from the present Zionist rule to a non-Zionist entity.
www.conjure.com /religion.html   (7027 words)

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