B. Alleged violations affecting ethnic and religious communities

18. All religious communities in the Republic of Serbia have their own religious schools.

Cemeteries 817 Other religious communities also build new religious institutions depending on available means.

The Jewish Communities are religious congregations comprising numerous members.

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The obligation of prior registration of religious communities is discriminatory.

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

For the Shia are the biggest of Lebanon s three religious communities.

15. All religious communities are fully independent and free in the performance of religious rites and their internal organization.

16. Religious communities are very active in publishing all sorts of books.

All religious communities, particularly the smaller ones, import various publications from abroad.

About 50 registered religious communities are active in the territory of Yugoslavia.

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

Article 19 (4) provides that religious communities are also entitled to establish schools.

Textbooks and lecturers are provided by religious communities according to their own criteria.

Most religious communities there currently enjoy the right to perform their rites freely.

Public schools allow religious education, in cooperation with religious communities that have agreements with the government, but attendance is not mandatory.

The legal position of religious communities is defined by special legislation, specifically regarding government funding, tax benefits, and religious education in schools.

Most major religious festivals of the main communities are included in the list of national holidays.

Other religious communities belong to new protestantism and modern cults which have a relatively small membership.

About 50 registered religious communities are active in the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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.

Composed of members of the various religious communities, these councils were intended to assist the deputy governor.

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

17. All religious communities freely teach religion to children of their believers and to other interested people.

27. The war in Yugoslavia apos s neighbourhood has not affected much the activities of religious communities.

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

All religious schools are separated from the State educational system. Because of the need to preserve the autonomy and specificity of religious education, leaders of religious communities have shown no interest in changing this status.

Instead, what we are witnessing in Iraq today is not ever increasing friction between religious communities but escalating internal power struggles within the Sunni and Shiite communities.

25. The Islamic community in the Republic of Serbia has a considerable number of religious institutions catering to the needs of its believers. However, new mosques and other religious institutions are being constructed, mostly in communities with a small number of believers, which is the cause of frequent resentment of other religious communities.

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

This area had been a confluence of communities with quot distinctive ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic features quot .

All religious communities are free and independent in the performance of their rites and in their internal organization.

All religious communities are free and independent in the performance of their rites and in their internal organization.

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.

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

Accordingly, the law on religious communities mentions the need for an authorization only from the Ministry of the Interior.

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.

's Sense of Community Index (SCI) (see Chipuer Pretty, 1999 Long Perkins, 2003), originally designed primarily in reference to neighborhoods, can be adapted to study other communities as well, including the workplace, schools, religious communities, communities of interest, etc.

Although Myanmar is an overwhelmingly Buddhist country, dozens of religious and ethnic communities have long lived there side by side.

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 representative replied that no proposal had been initiated by the Government to change the personal laws of different religious communities.

Delegates for international church meetings and members of international church organizations are elected by religious communities in accordance with their criteria.