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Religious Law
- English1. The Tribunals of Religious Communities shall be composed in conformity with the provisions of laws issued pertaining thereto. In such laws the jurisdictions of said Tribunals shall be defined as regards matters of personal status and (Waqfs) constituted for the benefit of the community concerned. However, matters of personal status of such community shall be the matters of personal status of Muslims within the jurisdiction of the Sharia Courts.
2. The Tribunals of Religious Communities shall apply the procedures and provisions related to the matters of personal status which are not considered matters of personal status of Muslims within the jurisdiction of the Sharia Courts; provided that the legislations of such Tribunals shall organize the conditions of the appointment of their judges and the procedures of trials before them. (Art. 109) - Arabic1. تتألف مجالس الطوائف الدينية وفاقاً لأحكام القوانين التي تصدر خاصة بها وتحدد في هذه القوانين إختصاصات المجالس المذكورة بشأن مسائل الأحوال الشخصية والأوقاف المنشأة لمصلحة الطائفة ذات العلاقة. أما مسائل الأحوال الشخصية لهذه الطائفة فهي مسائل الأحوال الشخصية للمسلمين الداخلة في إختصاص المحاكم الشرعية.
2. تطبّق مجالس الطوائف الدينية الأصول والأحكام المتعلقة بمسائل الأحوال الشخصية التي لا تعتبر من مسائل الأحوال الشخصية للمسلمين الداخلة في اختصاص المحاكم الشرعية، على أن تنظّم تشريعات هذه المجالس شروط تعيين قضاتها وأصول المحاكمات أمامها. (المادّة 109)
Religious Law
- EnglishWHEREAS sovereignty over the Universe belongs to the Omni-present God alone, and the authority to be exercised by the people of Samoa within the limits prescribed by His commandments is a sacred heritage;
WHEREAS the Leaders of Samoa have declared that Samoa should be an Independent State based on Christian principles and Samoan custom and tradition;
… (Preamble) - SamoanONA o le pule aoao i le Lalolagi e i ai lea i le Atua na o Ia, e afio i mea uma lava ma o le pulega e faaaogaina e tagata o Samoa i totonu o tuaoi na faasinoina mai i Tulafono a le Atua o se tofi paia tuufaasolo;
ONA ua faaalia e Taitai o Samoa le tatau ona avea Samoa ma Malo Tutoatasi e faavaeina i luga o talitonuga faa-Kerisiano ma tu ma aganuu a Samoa;
… (Uputomua)
Religious Law
- English
Liberty, justice, the respect for the dignity of the human person, political and social pluralism, the recognition to the indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples of their own identity within a unitary and indivisible State, the recognition of the different forms of ownership, free international cooperation, the respect for the free self-determination of Peoples, the Christian values, the socialist ideals, the practices [of] solidarity and the values and ideals of the Nicaraguan culture and identity are principles of the Nicaraguan nation.
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Christian values assure the love for [one's] fellow humans [prójimo], the reconciliation between brothers of the Nicaraguan family, the respect for the individual diversity without any discrimination, the respect for and equality of rights of the persons with disabilities and the preferential option for the poor.
... (Art. 5) - Spanish
Son principios de la nación nicaragüense, la libertad, la justicia, el respeto a la dignidad de la persona humana, el pluralismo político y social, el reconocimiento a los pueblos originarios y afrodescendientes de su propia identidad dentro de un Estado unitario e indivisible, el reconocimiento a las distintas formas de propiedad, la libre cooperación internacional, el respeto a la libre autodeterminación de los pueblos, los valores cristianos, los ideales socialistas, las prácticas solidarias, y los valores e ideales de la cultura e identidad nicaragüense.
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Los valores cristianos aseguran el amor al prójimo, la reconciliación entre hermanos de la familia nicaragüense, el respeto a la diversidad individual sin discriminación alguna, el respeto e igualdad de derecho de las personas con discapacidad y la opción preferencial por los pobres.
… (Art. 5)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe Maldives is a sovereign, independent, democratic Republic based on the principles of Islam, and is a unitary State, to be known as the Republic of the Maldives. Any reference to “the Maldives” is a reference to the Republic of the Maldives. (Art. 2)
- Dhivehiދިވެހިރާއްޖެއަކީ ފުރިހަމަ މިނިވަންކަން ލިބިގެންވާ، އިސްލާމީ އުސޫލުތަކުގެ މައްޗައް ބިނާކުރެވިފައިވާ، އަމިއްލަ ވެރިކަންކުރާ، ދީމިޤްރާތީ، ޖުމްހޫރީ އަދި ޔުނިޓަރީ ދައުލަތެކެވެ. މި ދައުލަތުގެ ނަމަކީ ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާއެވެ. މީގެ ފަހުން މިޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގައި "ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ" މި ނަމުން އިޝާރާތްކުރެވެނީ ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭހެ ޖުމުހޫރިއްޔާއަށެވެ. (ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 2 ވަނަ މާއްދާ)
Religious Law
- English
Burkina Faso is a democratic, unitary and secular State.
… (Art. 31) - French
Le Burkina Faso est un Etat démocratique, unitaire et laic.
… (Art. 31)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe principles of adherence to the tenets of the Holy religion of Islam as well as Islamic Republicanism shall not be amended. ... (Art. 149)
- Dariاصل پیروی از احكام دین مقدس اسلام و نظام جمهوری اسلامی تعدیل نمی شوند. ... (مادۀ ۱۴۹)
- Pashtoد اسلام دسپېڅلي دين له حكمونو څخه د پيرو ۍ اصل او اسلامي جمهوري نظام نه تعديلېږي. ... (۱۴۹ ماده)
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
- 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
- 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
- English1. Islam is the official religion in Palestine. Respect for the sanctity of all other divine religions shall be maintained.
2. The principles of Islamic Shari’a shall be a principal source of legislation.
… (Art. 4) - Arabic1- الإسلام هو الدين الرسمي في فلسطين ولسائر الديانات السماوية احترامها وقدسيتها.
2- مبادئ الشريعة الإسلامية مصدر رئيسي للتشريع.
... (المادّة 4)