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Religious Law
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2. Religious organizations shall be separate from the state. (Art. 17) - Armenian…
2. Կրոնական կազմակերպություններն անջատ են պետությունից: (Հոդված 17)
Religious Law
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5. Pursuant to sub-Article 5 of Article 34 the House of Peoples’ Representatives and State Councils can establish or give official recognition to religious and customary courts. Religious and customary courts that had state recognition and functioned prior to the adoption of the Constitution shall be organized on the basis of recognition accorded to them by this Constitution. (Art. 78) - Amharic…
5. የህዝብ ተወካዬች ምክር ቤትና የክልል ምክር ቤቶች በኣንቀጽ 34 ንኡስ ኣንቀጽ 5 መሰረት የሃማኖትና የባሕል ፍርድ ቤቶችን ሊያቋቁሙ ወይም እውቅና ሊሰጡ ይችላሉ፡፡ ይህ ሕገ መንግሥት ከመጽደቁ በፊት በመንግሥት እውቅና አግኝተው ሲሰራባቸው የነበሩ የሃይማኖቶችና የባሕል ፍርድ ቤቶች በዚህ ሕገ መንግሥት መሰረት እውቅና አግኝተው ይደራጃሉ፡፡ (አንቀጽ 78)
Religious Law
- English(1) The United Republic is a democratic, secular and socialist state which adheres to multi-party democracy.
… (Art. 3)
Religious Law
- EnglishWhereas sovereignty over the entire Universe belongs to Almighty Allah alone, and the authority to be exercised by the people of Pakistan within the limits prescribed by Him is a sacred trust;
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Wherein the principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice, as enunciated by Islam, shall be fully observed;
Wherein the Muslims15 shall be enabled to order their lives in the individual and collective spheres in accordance with the teachings and requirements of Islam as set out in the Holy Quran and Sunnah;
… (Preamble) - Urduچونکہ اللہ تبارک و تعالی ہی پوری کائنات کا بلا شرکتِ غیرے حاکم مطلق ہے اور پاکستان کے جمہور کو جو اختیار و اقتدار اس کی مقرر کردہ حدود کے اندر استعمال کرنے کا حق ہوگا، وہ ایک مقدس امانت ہے؛
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جس میں جمہوریت ، آزادی ، مساوات ، رواداری اور عدل عمرانی کے اصولوں پر جس طرح اسلام نے ان کی تشریح کی ہے، پوری طرح عمل کیا جائے گا؛
جس میں مسلمانوں کو انفرادی اور اجتماعی حلقہ ہاۓ عمل میں اس قابل بنایا جائے گا کہ وہ اپنی زندگی کو اسلامی تعلیمات و مقتضیات کے مطابق، جس طرح قرآن پاک اور سنت میں ان کا تعین کیا گیا ہے، ترتیب دے سکیں؛
... (تمہید)
Religious Law
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20. The State shall strive to create conditions that will enable the true and sustainable development of a good and compassionate society rooted in Buddhist ethos and universal human values.
… (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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༢༠) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་ཀྱི་ཁྱད་ཆོས་དང་ སངས་རྒྱས་པའི་གྲུབ་མཐར་རྩ་བ་འཛིན་པའི་ལེགས་ལྡན་དང་ བྱམས་སྙིང་ ལྡན་པའི་ མི་སྡེ་ཅིག་ ཡུན་བརྟན་གོང་འཕེལ་དངོས་སུ་འབྱུང་ ཚུགས་པའི་གནས་སྟངས་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་ དོན་གཉེར་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽
Religious Law
- EnglishThe State shall defend:
(1) The right of spouses to found a family in accordance with their religious convictions and the demands of responsible parenthood;
… (Art. XV, Sec. 3) - FilipinoDapat isanggalang ng Estado:
(1) Ang karapatan ng mga mag-asawa na magpamilya nang naaayon sa kanilang pananalig na panrelihiyon at sa mga kinakailangan ng responsableng pagpapamilya;
… (Art. XV, Seksyon 3)
Religious Law
- EnglishWE, THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA:
ACKNOWLEDGE the supremacy of God Almighty;
DECLARE the Republic a Christian Nation ... (Preamble)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe form of public administration, the territorial integrity, and the democratic, law-governed, secular and social nature of the state shall be irrevocable. (Art. 100)
- RussianРеспубликанская форма правления, территориальная целостность,демократическая, правовая, светская и социальная сущность государства неизменны. (Статья 100)
- TajikШакли идораи ҷумҳурӣ, тамомияти арзӣ, моҳияти демократӣ, ҳуқуқбунёдӣ, дунявӣ ва иҷтимоии давлат тағйирнопазиранд. (Моддаи 100)
Religious Law
- EnglishWE the people of Vanuatu, …
HEREBY proclaim the establishment of the united and free Republic of Vanuatu founded on traditional Melanesian values, faith in God, and Christian principles,
… (Preamble) - FrenchNOUS, Peuple de Vanuatu, …
PROCLAMONS la création de la République libre et unie de Vanuatu, fondée sur les valeurs traditionnelles mélanésiennes, la foi en Dieu et les principes chrétiens.
… (Préambule)
Religious Law
- EnglishAlong with freedom of belief and religion, the State shall recognise the outstanding role of the Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia in the history of Georgia, and its independence from the State. The relationship between the state of Georgia and the Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia shall be determined by a constitutional agreement, which shall be in full compliance with the universally recognised principles and norms of international law in the area of human rights and freedoms. (Art. 8)
- Georgianრწმენისა და აღმსარებლობის თავისუფლებასთან ერთად სახელმწიფო აღიარებს საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესიის განსაკუთრებულ როლს საქართველოს ისტორიაში და მის დამოუკიდებლობას სახელმწიფოსაგან. საქართველოს სახელმწიფოსა და საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესიის ურთიერთობა განისაზღვრება კონსტიტუციური შეთანხმებით, რომელიც სრულად უნდა შეესაბამებოდეს საერთაშორისო სამართლის საყოველთაოდ აღიარებულ პრინციპებსა და ნორმებს ადამიანის უფლებათა და თავისუფლებათა სფეროში. (მუხლი 8)