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	Warsaw Confederation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Warsaw Confederation (January 28, 1573), an important development in the history of Poland, is considered the formal beginning of religious freedom in Poland.
		Religious tolerance in Poland had had a long tradition and had been de facto policy in the reign of the recently deceased King Zygmunt II.
		There is debate as to whether the religious freedom was intended only for the nobility or also for the peasants and others; most historians favor the latter interpretation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warsaw_Confederation (328 words)

	Freedom of religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freedom of religion is the guarantee by a government for freedom of belief for individuals and freedom of worship for individuals and groups.
		Freedom of religion as a legal concept is related to but not identical with religious toleration, separation of church and state or laïcité.
		Freedom of worship in India was encapsulated in an inscription of Asoka:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freedom_of_religion (1157 words)

	Aid to the Church in Need - Italian Office, Report 2002 on the Religious Freedom in the World (summary)
		The Report by the U.S. Department for Religious Freedom informs that during the month of March the Jehovah’s Witnesses received a letter in which the Movement was informed that they would no longer be allowed to use the Expo Centre in Brussels where their traditional annual convention has been held since 1935.
		Religious freedom in China is governed by Article 36 of the current Constitution, in force since 1982, which states that "citizens of the People’s Republic of China enjoy the freedom of religious belief".
		The U.S. State Department report on religious freedom refers to the inauguration, at the beginning of 2001, of a number of Churches in the Jabal Ali area, the land was given to four protestant congregations and one Catholic one by the Emirate of Dubai.
	www.alleanzacattolica.org /acs/aaa_report_2002_english.htm (12284 words)

	Poland
		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.
		Farmers are the most religious occupational group, with 69 percent attending church regularly.
		There are 15 religious groups whose relationship with the State is governed by specific legislation that outlines the internal structure of the religious groups, their activities, and procedures for property restitution.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2003/24427.htm (2359 words)

	Poland
		All of these religious groups have a relationship with the State governed by either legislation or treaty, with the exception of Jehovah's Witnesses, the Uniate Church, the New Apostolic Church, the Church of Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna), and the Church of Christ.
		Religious communities may register with the Government, but they are not required to do so and may function freely without registration.
		For example, besides the annual report by the interministerial group for new religious movements on the activities of groups it considers to be "sects", informational training on such groups has been given to officials at the county level.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2001/5727.htm (2918 words)

	Religious freedom in Poland - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Freedom of religion shall include the freedom to profess or to accept a religion by personal choice as well as to manifest such religion, either individually or collectively, publicly or privately, by worshipping, praying, participating in ceremonies, performing of rites or teaching.
		Freedom of religion shall also include possession of sanctuaries and other places of worship for the satisfaction of the needs of believers as well as the right of individuals, wherever they may be, to benefit from religious services.
		The freedom to publicly express religion may be limited only by means of statute and only where this is necessary for the defence of State security, public order, health, morals or the freedoms and rights of others.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Anti-Semitism_in_Poland (2231 words)

	Poland
		The generally amicable relationship among religions in society contributed to religious freedom; however, skinheads and other marginal elements of society continued to carry out sporadic incidents of harassment and violence against Jewish persons and occasional desecration of Jewish and, more frequently, Catholic cemeteries.
		Religious communities may register with the Government; however, they are not required to do so and may function freely without registration.
		The generally amicable relationship among religions in society contributed to religious freedom; however, skinheads and other marginal elements of society continued to carry out sporadic incidents of harassment and violence against Jewish persons and occasional desecration of Jewish and, more often, Catholic cemeteries.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35477.htm (2552 words)

	2000 Annual Report for International Religious Freedom: Poland
		U.S. Embassy and Consulate General Krakow representatives actively monitor threats to religious freedom and seek to further resolution of unsettled legacies of the Holocaust and the Communist era.
		Relations between the various religious communities are generally amicable, although the erection by radical nationalist anti-Semites of some 300 crosses near the former Auschwitz concentration camp caused tensions in Catholic-Jewish relations in 1998-99.
		Embassy and consulate representatives actively monitor threats to religious freedoms; the Embassy intervened to assure rapid police response to threatening demonstrations by skinheads against the Jewish community of Wroclaw in 1998.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/irf2000/poland.html (3073 words)

	International Religious Freedom Report 2002: Poland
		According to the 2001 Annual Statistical Yearbook of Poland, the following figures represent the formal membership of the listed religious groups, but not the number of actual persons (for example, the actual number of Jews in the country is estimated at between 10,000 and 30,000).
		The survey found women to be more religious than men, with 64 percent of the former attending church regularly, compared with 52 percent of the latter.
		Religious and political leaders strongly criticized the tableau's construction in the church.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13955.htm (2797 words)

	Poland2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Plans were announced to establish a special department to monitor new religious movements amid growing public concern over the activities of such groups in the country.
		Poland itself has special laws for 14 "historic Churches", including the Lutherans and Calvinists who have played conspicuous roles in national life since the sixteenth century.
		The Baptists have been active in Poland since the middle of the nineteenth century, the Mariavites since 1887, the Polish Catholic Church since 1900, and Methodists and Pentecostalists since the 1920s.
	www.hrwf.net /html/poland2000.html (1270 words)

	Renaissance
		In the Inquisition Time religious freedom in Poland was constitutionally established and equality of creeds officially guaranteed.
		Poland was the most free - minded and democratic country in Europe.
		With the parliament crippled by a stipulation that any legislation could be vetoed by any one member (liberum veto), decades stumbled by without one law being passed and Poland was frustrated into dissent.
	www.experiencepoland.com /renaissance.html (311 words)

	ICRF Report: Religious Freedom in China
		The cornerstone of the policy has been to ensure that all religious activity is registered, that unregistered religious activity is brought to an end and that the registered religions teach and practice in ways which are in accord with government social, educational, economic, and political policy.
		In spite of their efforts, unauthorized religious activity in all faiths has continued to spread and the national and local government have reacted with varying degrees of repression.
		They were one of the factors which prompted the introduction of the Freedom From Religious Persecution Act in the US Congress.
	www.religiousfreedom.com /wrpt/Chinarpt.htm (2333 words)

	Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright on Religious Freedom - CUA Office of Public Affairs
		That is the ceaseless quest for religious freedom and tolerance.
		As we proceed with our efforts to promote religious freedom, we should be mindful of one danger, which is the possibility that--as we pursue the right goal--we may choose the wrong means.
		Community and religious leaders play a vital role in Bosnia and throughout the Balkans; for the ethnic hatred that splintered that region was not a natural phenomenon.
	publicaffairs.cua.edu /speeches/albright97.htm (5000 words)

	The International Association for Religious Freedom
		But the growing diversity of religious sentiment in Europe was accompanied by an assumption, agreed at the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, that the rulers had the responsibility and the right to determine the religious beliefs of their subjects.
		The Annual Day for Freedom of Religion or Belief, which was first observed at the United Nations in 1994, marks the anniversary of the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the "Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief" (Resolution 36/55).
		He spoke out in favor of religious freedom in Saudi Arabia during his talks with King Fahd, and before living the country told journalists that was no freedom of worship in the country.
	www.geocities.com /~iarf/iworld98n2.html (7945 words)

	Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 1999: Poland
		There are 14 religious groups in the country whose relationship with the State is governed by specific legislation and 140 other religious communities.
		No new religious communities have sought to register since the change in requirements; one international interdenominational group is in the process of registering under the auspices of an existing congregation.
		Relations between the various religious communities are generally amicable, although the erection by radical nationalist anti-Semites of some 300 crosses near the former Auschwitz concentration camp caused tensions in Catholic-Jewish relations.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/irf/irf_poland99.html (2412 words)

	Religious Freedom World Report
		The constitution of Poland was amended in 1988 to guarantee equal rights to citizens irrespective of religion; freedom of conscience, belief and religious practice; and separation of church and state.
		Unfortunately, the Polish nation does not have a recent tradition of religious freedom or an established body of civil rights law to protect the rights of small religious minorities.
		Religious groups may organize, select and train personnel, solicit and receive contributions, publish, and engage in consultations without government interference." While this is the case for established religions which are legally recognized by the Polish government, new and small religious groups face innumerable obstacles and difficulties in practicing and promulgating their beliefs.
	www.icrf.com /wrpt/Europe/poland.htm (384 words)

	U.S. statement on religious freedom in Europe
		While much progress has been made, and many millions more people are now free to practice their religion throughout the OSCE region, we cannot help but observe that these freedoms have not always extended to minority religious and belief groups.
		In his famous study of religious discrimination, the distinguished UN Rapporteur, Arcot Krishnaswami, stated: "Greater intolerance is usually shown towards the new groups, especially if they are splinters of the predominant religion or belief which attempt to win converts to what the predominant religion considers to be a schism or a heresy.
		Engaging in a serious and open dialogue with all religious and belief-based groups that are of concern to governments.
	www.religioustolerance.org /st_relfre.htm (1442 words)

	Q&A with Paul Kengor - PittsburghLIVE.com
		They were both shot within a couple of months of each other, and they both believed that God had spared their lives for a special purpose, which they came to believe had to do with confronting Soviet communism.
		Where his beliefs were extraordinary was that for most people their religious faith affects their own life, their family and those closest around them.
		Religious freedom in Poland was really helping to undermine communism's control on the Polish people.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/steigerwaldqa/s_184225.html (893 words)

	FT February 2004: The Public Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By default, the answer is: the religious leaders and the mob they whip into a frenzy of bloodlust, all of whom are Jewish.
		For the Gnostic the purpose of the religious community is to facilitate the quest and validate the results.
		But in Cuba the Pope’s bold and relentless proclamation of gospel freedom, of human rights, of the need for the state to respect the integrity of the family met with delirious enthusiasm from crowds of hundreds of thousands from one end of the island to the other.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0402/public.html (13707 words)

	Defending Religious Freedom in Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Krishna worshippers in Poland are up against a fascist-like anti-Vedic movement made up of an unholy alliance between Roman Catholic fanatics and members of the Republican league an ultra right wing quasi-political group.
		An education campaign is under way by the Mission to counter Sister Michaela's misrepresentation of Hindu religious practices and her twisted and perverted descriptions of Krishna's divine lila.
		To this end, Tusta Krishna das, founder of the Hindu Religious Freedom Foundation and a fellow disciple of Jagad Guru, was called to testify as an expert witness at the case.
	www.hare-krishna.org /showflat/cat/HareKrishnaNews/266/12/collapsed/5/o/1 (1932 words)

	Runaway Planet: Government and Religious Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This might take the form of forcing all children into public schools, as has been proposed in Australia, so that families would be denied the opportunity to "shelter their kids from outside views" and "indoctrinate" them into any particular religion.
		The court's obligation to discern objectively what Terri's wishes were and whether they were clear--a question of fact--morphed into an inquiry as to whether she could ever get better, with the subjective assumption that life in her present condition was not meaningful life.
		If they were really interested in banning all religious references from public ground, as Terence Jeffrey points out, they would have to sue to remove the Native American exhibit at the Smithsonian.
	donsblog.typepad.com /dons_blog/government_and_religious_freedom/index.html (8944 words)

	Religious Freedom Page
		In June a provincial court decided that a crucifix hung in the meeting room of the Lodz city council in 1990 could remain, denying the complaint of a city resident.
		Such non- Catholic religious instruction exists in practice, although it is not common, and the Ministry of Education pays the instructors.
		Priests receive salaries from the state budget for teaching religion in public schools, and Church representatives are included on a commission that determines whether books qualify for school use.
	religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu /nationprofiles/Poland/status.html (452 words)

	Decline of religious freedom in some countries of Europe
		The lowest level is populated by small religious groups, which the state may not recognize as religious institutions.
		These groups target new religious movements, believing them to be largely criminal, mind-controlling, dangerous cults.
		For example, the Greek constitution criminalized religious proselytizing, unless you are promoting the state religion of Greek Orthodoxy.
	www.religioustolerance.org /rt_euro.htm (1433 words)

	Religious Freedom Page
		Chrypinkski, V. "Church and Nationality in postwar Poland," in Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics.
		Chrypinkski, V. "The Roman Catholic Church in 1944-89 Poland," in Catholicism and Politics in Communist Societies.
		Michel, P. Politics and Religion in Eastern Europe: Catholicism in Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.
	religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu /nationprofiles/Poland/bib.html (173 words)

	GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Poland
		Constitution Finder: Poland (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law) in English
		JURIST: Poland (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
		Religious Liberty: The Legal Framework in Selected OSCE Countries (U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe) May 2000; prepared by the Law Library of Congress at the request of the Commision; includes Uzbekistan and ten other countries; includes part 1 (pp.
	www.loc.gov /law/guide/poland.html (321 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: WORLD - Catholic Church organizes relief in Gujrat, India; British Parliament legalizes ...
		The statue is reported to be on land belonging to the Kandy diocese at the main entrance to the national seminary, a parish church and several religious houses.
		The prosecutor's office in the central city of Lodz, Poland, said it was awaiting a court order for the extradition of Fr.
		The case was brought by the wife of a businessman from whom the priest borrowed $738,000.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_15_37/ai_70926891 (1497 words)

	Jehovahs Witness Discussion Forum - Topic: Religious freedom in peril? (page 1)
		Parmly said the United States believes "that a government that fails to honor religious freedom and freedom of conscience is a government in danger of not fully recognizing the priority of the individual over the state."
		Books from sociologists of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are still republished, where the word 'secte' is used, without any derogatory meaning, simply to identify small denominations or groups that are not (or not yet) regarded as part of the mainline by the majority churches.
		On the other hand, for the general public 'secte' is rather used, in the sense of the 1996 parliamentary commission, to identify a dangerous religious (or, rather, 'pseudo-religious') movement using mind control techniques.
	www.jehovahs-witness.com /6/5004/1.ashx (2033 words)

	Doug Bandow on Kuwait on National Review Online
		Saudi Arabia is renowned for its suppression of religious liberty, including executing apostates.
		It doesn't see Christians as a threat, Micallef told me last year: "We feel that we are respected and not only respected, but also welcomed." Similarly, Rev. Rafik Farouk, an Egyptian pastor at the NEC, said the church has "no conflict" with the authorities.
		The latter's freedom almost certainly is buttressed by the generally favorable view of America.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-bandow082103.asp (2051 words)

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