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Religious Law
- EnglishThe principles of Christian and Jewish Sharia of Egyptian Christians and Jews are the main source of legislations that regulate their respective personal status, religious affairs, and selection of spiritual leaders. (Art. 3)
- Arabicمبادئ شرائع المصريين من المسيحيين واليهود هي المصدر الرئيسي للّتشريعات المنظِّمة لأحوالهم الشّخصية، وشؤونهم الدّينية، واختيار قياداتهم الرّوحية. (المادّة 3)
Religious Law
- English
1. Buddhism is the spiritual heritage of Bhutan, which promotes the principles and values of peace, non-violence, compassion and tolerance.
2. The Druk Gyalpo is the protector of all religions in Bhutan.
3. It shall be the responsibility of religious institutions and personalities to promote the spiritual heritage of the country while also ensuring that religion remains separate from politics in Bhutan. Religious institutions and personalities shall remain above politics.
4. The Druk Gyalpo shall, on the recommendation of the Five Lopons, appoint a learned and respected monk ordained in accordance with the Druk-lu, with the nine qualities of a spiritual master and accomplished in ked-dzog, as the Je Khenpo.
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7. The Zhung Dratshang and Rabdeys shall continue to receive adequate funds and other facilities from the State. (Art. 3) - Dzongkha
༡) ཞི་བདེ་དང་ འཚེ་མེད་ སྙིང་རྗེ་ བཟོད་པའི་གཞི་རྩ་དང་ཁྱད་ཆོས་ཚུ་སྤེལ་བའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་འདི་ འབྲུག་གི་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་གྱི་ཆོས་ཨིན།
༢) འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་ འབྲུག་ནང་འཁོད་ཆོས་ལུགས་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་མགོན་སྐྱབས་མཛད་མི་ཨིན།
༣) རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདིའི་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་གྱི་ཆོས་ཡར་སྤེལ་མཛད་ནི་འདི་ ཆོས་སྡེའི་གཙུག་སྡེ་དང་ཆོས་སྒོར་ ཞུགས་མི་ཚུ་གི་ ཁག་འགན་ཨིན་པའི་ཁར་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ཆོས་འདི་ སྲིད་དོན་དང་ཐ་དད་གནས་ དགོཔ་དེ་ཡང་ངེས་གཏན་ཨིན། ཆོས་སྡེའི་གཙུག་སྡེ་དང་ཆོས་སྒོར་ཞུགས་མི་ཚུ་ སྲིད་དོན་ལས་ འདས་པའི་ཡུལ་ལུ་གནས་དགོ།
༤) འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་ སློབ་དཔོན་ལྔའི་གྲོས་འདེབས་ཐོག་ འབྲུག་ལུགས་ཀྱི་སྡོམ་རྒྱུན་ ལྡན་པ་ དམ་པའི་ངང་ཚུལ་ དགུ་ལྡན་ བསྐྱེད་རྫོགས་ལ་མཁས་ཤིང་གྲུབ་པ་ སྦྱངས་པ་ཅན་དང་ གུས་པས་བཀུར་བའི་སྐྱེས་མཆོག་ཅིག་ རྗེ་མཁན་པོར་མངའ་གསོལ་ཕུལ་ནི།
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༧) གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་དང་རབ་སྡེ་ཚུ་ལུ་ ལྡང་ངེས་ཀྱི་མ་དངུལ་དང་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་གཞན་ཚུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ལས་འཕྲོ་མཐུད་དེ་རང་ ཐོབ་དགོ། ༼རྩ་ཚན་༣༽
Religious Law
- EnglishThe Judges are independent, and subject only to the Constitution and the law. When deciding matters on which the Constitution or the law is silent, Judges must consider Islamic Shari’ah. In the performance of their judicial functions, Judges must apply the Constitution and the law impartially and without fear, favour or prejudice. (Art. 142)
- Dhivehiފަޑިޔާރުންނަކީ މުސްތަޤިއްލު ބަޔެކެވެ. ފަނޑިޔާރުން އަމަލުކުރާނީ ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީ އާއި ޤާނޫނަށެވެ. ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީ އާއި ޤާނޫނުގައި ވަކިގޮތަކަށް ކަނޑައެޅިފައިނުވާ ކަންކަން ނިންމުމުގައި އިސްލާމީ ޝަރީއަތުގައި އެކަމެއް ކަނޑައެޅިފައިވާ ގޮތައް ފަނޑިޔާރުން ރިޢާޔަތް ކުރަންވާނެއެވެ. ފަނޑިޔާރުންގެ މަސައްކަތުގައި ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީ އާއި ޤާނޫނާ އެއްގޮތަށް ކަންތައްތައް ނިންމާންވާނީ ވަކިފަރާތަކަށް ބުރަނުވެ، ވަކިފަރާތަކުން ދައްކައިފައިވާނެ ބިރަކަށް ޖެހިލުންނުވެ، ތަޢައްޞުބުން އެއްކިބާވެ ތިބެއެވެ. (ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 142 ވަނަ މާއްދާ)
Religious Law
- EnglishSubject to paragraph 3 of Article 160 the courts of the Republic shall have power to apply also the relevant communal laws other than those relating to personal status and to religious matters. (Art. 161)
- GreekTηρουμένων των διατάξεων της τρίτης παραγράφου του άρθρου 160 τα δικαστήρια της Δημοκρατίας έχουσιν εξουσίαν να εφαρμόζωσι και τους οικείους κοινοτικούς νόμους πλην των περί προσωπικού θεσμού και των θρησκευτικών θεμάτων νόμων. (Αρθρον 161)
- Turkish160. maddenin 3. fıkrasına tabi olarak, Cumhuriyet Mahkemeleri, kişisel statü ve dini konularla ilgili olanlar dışındaki ilgili toplumsal yasaları da uygulama yetkisine sahiptir. (Madde 161)
Religious Law
- English…
(2) The social and cultural objective of the State shall be to build a civilized and egalitarian society by eliminating all forms of discrimination, exploitation and injustice on the grounds of religion, culture, tradition, usage, custom, practice or on any other similar grounds,
… (Art. 50) - Nepali…
(२) धर्म, संस्कृति, संस्कार, प्रथा, परम्परा, प्रचलन वा अन्य कुनै पनि आधारमा हुने सबै प्रकारका विभेद, शोषण र अन्यायको अन्त्य गरी सभ्य र समतामूलक समाजको निर्माण गर्ने राज्यको सामाजिक र सांस्कृतिक उद्देश्य हुनेछ ।
... (धारा ५०)
Religious Law
- English…
(2) The National Assembly shall have no power to pass a Bill—
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(b) to establish any religion as a state religion;
… (Sec. 100)
Religious Law
- EnglishWE, THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA:
ACKNOWLEDGE the supremacy of God Almighty;
DECLARE the Republic a Christian Nation ... (Preamble)
Religious Law
- EnglishEvery emir shall assume the administration of the region according to the general policy of the State in compliance with provisions of this Law and other laws and regulations. In particular, he is expected to do the following:
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• Guarantee human rights and freedom, refrain from any action which affects such rights and freedom except within the limits provided by the Sharia and the Law,
… (Law of the Provinces, Art. 7) - Arabicيتولّى أمير كل منطقة إدارتها، وفقا للسياسة العامة للدّولة، و غيره من الأنظمة و اللوائح، و عليه بصفة خاصّة،
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• كفالة حقوق الأفراد و حرياتهم و عدم اتخاذ أي إجراء يمسّ تلك الحقوق و الحريات، إلاّ في الحدود المقررة شرعا و نظاما،
... (قانون المناطق، المادّة 7)
Religious Law
- English
1 No person may cover their face in public spaces or in places that are accessible to the public or where services are offered to anyone wishing to partake of them; the ban does not apply to places of worship.
2 No person may force another person to cover their face on the grounds of their sex.
3 The law shall provide for exceptions. These may only be justified on the grounds of health, safety, weather conditions or local custom. (Art. 10a) - French
1 Nul ne peut se dissimuler le visage dans l’espace public, ni dans les lieux accessibles au public ou dans lesquels sont fournies des prestations ordinairement accessibles par tout un chacun; l’interdiction n’est pas applicable dans les lieux de culte.
2 Nul ne peut contraindre une personne de se dissimuler le visage en raison de son sexe.
3 La loi prévoit des exceptions. Celles-ci ne peuvent être justifiées que par des raisons de santé ou de sécurité, par des raisons climatiques ou par des coutumes locales. (Art. 10a) - German
1 Niemand darf sein Gesicht im öffentlichen Raum und an Orten verhüllen, die öffentlich zugänglich sind oder an denen grundsätzlich von jedermann beanspruchbare Dienstleistungen angeboten werden; das Verbot gilt nicht für Sakralstätten.
2 Niemand darf eine Person zwingen, ihr Gesicht aufgrund ihres Geschlechts zu verhüllen.
3 Das Gesetz sieht Ausnahmen vor. Diese umfassen ausschliesslich Gründe der Gesundheit, der Sicherheit, der klimatischen Bedingungen und des einheimischen Brauchtums. (Art. 10a) - Italian
1 Nessuno può dissimulare il proprio viso negli spazi pubblici né nei luoghi accessibili al pubblico o nei quali sono fornite prestazioni in linea di massima accessibili a ognuno; il divieto non si applica ai luoghi di culto.
2 Nessuno può obbligare una persona a dissimulare il viso a causa del suo sesso.
3 La legge prevede eccezioni. Queste possono essere giustificate esclusivamente da motivi inerenti alla salute, alla sicurezza, alle condizioni climatiche e alle usanze locali. (Art. 10a)
Religious Law
- EnglishIslam is the religion of the State and the principal source of legislation is the Islamic Sharia. The State shall guarantee for non Muslims the freedom to practice religious rituals.
… (Art. 1) - Arabicودينها الإسلام، والشّريعة الإسلامية المصدر الرئيس للتشريع، وتكفل الدولة لغير المسلمين حرية القيام بشعائرهم الدينية.
... (المادّة 1)