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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
- EnglishThe Mufti of the republic is the highest religious authority of the State. He is appointed by decree of the President of the Union.
The modalities of application of this Article are established by the law. (Art. 98) - Arabicمفتي الجمهورية هو أعلى سلطة دينية في الدولة. يُعيّن بمرسوم رئيس الاتحاد.
يضع القانون وسائل تطبيق هذه المادة. (المادة 98) - FrenchLe Moufti de la République est la plus haute autorité religieuse de l’État. Il est nommé par décret du Président de l’Union.
Les modalités d’application du présent article sont fixées par la loi. (Art. 98)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe Republic of Senegal is secular, democratic, and social. … (Art. 1)
- FrenchLa République du Sénégal est laïque, démocratique et sociale. … (Art. 1)
Religious Law
- English
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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 Legislature shall by law make provision for regulating Muslim religious affairs and for constituting a Council to advise the President in matters relating to the Muslim religion. (Art. 153)
Religious Law
- EnglishIslam is the Religion of the State.
… (Art. 1) - Arabicالإسلام هو دين الدولة.
... (المادة 1) - FrenchL’Islam est la religion de l’Etat.
… (Art. 1)
Religious Law
- English(1) In Islam, justice requires a balance of rights and duties.
… (Art. 42) - Somali(1) Sida Diinta Islaamku qabto, caddaaladda waxay ku jirtaa isu-dheellitirnaanta xuquuqda iyo waajibaadka.
… (Qodobka 42aad.)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe provision of Article 1 regarding the form of the State being a Republic, the characteristics of the Republic in Article 2, and the provisions of Article 3 shall not be amended, nor shall their amendment be proposed. (Art. 4)
- TurkishAnayasanın 1 inci maddesindeki Devletin şeklinin Cumhuriyet olduğu hakkındaki hüküm ile, 2 nci maddesindeki Cumhuriyetin nitelikleri ve 3 üncü maddesi hükümleri değiştirilemez ve değiştirilmesi teklif edilemez. (Madde 4)
Religious Law
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The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran sets forth the cultural, social, political, and economic institutions of Iranian society on the basis of Islamic principles and norms, which represent the earnest aspiration of the Islamic Ummah. This basic aspiration was made explicit by the very nature of the great Islamic Revolution of Iran, as well as the course of the Muslim people's struggle, from its beginning until victory, as reflected in the decisive and forceful slogans raised by all segments of the populations. Now, at the threshold of this great victory, our nation, with all its being, seeks its fulfilment.
… (Preamble) - Persian…
قانون اساسی جمهوری اسلامی ایران مبین نهادهای فرهنگی، اجتماعی، سیاسی و اقتصادی جامعه ایران بر اساس اصول و ضوابط اسلامی است که انعکاس خواست قلبی امت اسلامی میباشد. ماهیت انقلاب عظیم اسلامی ایران و روند مبارزه مردم مسلمان از ابتدا تا پیروزی که در شعارهای قاطع و کوبنده همه قشرهای مردم تبلور مییافت این خواست اساسی را مشخص کرده و اکنون در طلیعه این پیروزی بزرگ، ملت ما با تمام وجود نیل به آنرا میطلبد
(مقدمه) …
Religious Law
- EnglishReligions and faiths shall be equal before the law.
Relations between the State and religious organizations shall be regulated by the law with regard to their influence on the formation of the spiritual, cultural and state traditions of the Belarusian people.
… (Art. 16) - BelarusianРэлігіі і веравызнанні роўныя перад законам.
Узаемаадносіны дзяржавы і рэлігійных арганізацый рэгулююцца законам з улікам іх уплыву на фарміраванне духоўных, культурных і дзяржаўных традыцый беларускага народа.
… (Артыкул 16) - RussianРелигии и вероисповедания равны перед законом.
Взаимоотношения государства и религиозных организаций регулируются законом с учетом их влияния на формирование духовных, культурных и государственных традиций белорусского народа.
… (Статья 16)