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Religious Law
- EnglishWE, THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA:
ACKNOWLEDGE the supremacy of God Almighty;
DECLARE the Republic a Christian Nation ... (Preamble)
Religious Law
- EnglishTurkmenistan is a democratic, legal and secular state in which the government takes the form of presidential republic. … (Art. 1)
- RussianТуркменистан - демократическое, правовое и светское государство, в котором государственное правление осуществляется в форме президентской республики … (Статья 1)
- TurkmenTürkmenistan - demokratik, hukuk we dünýewi döwlet bolup, onda döwleti dolandyrmak prezident respublikasy görnüşinde amala aşyrylýar. … (1-nji madda)
Religious Law
- English1. The Republic of Mozambique shall be a lay State.
2. The lay nature of the State rests on the separation between the State and religious denominations.
… (Art. 12) - Portuguese1. A República de Moçambique é um Estado laico.
2. A laicidade assenta na separação entre o Estado e as confissões religiosas.
… (Art. 12)
Religious Law
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The Congress may not decree laws that establish or prohibit any religion.
… (Art. 24) - Spanish…
El Congreso no puede dictar leyes que establezcan o prohiban religión alguna.
… (Art. 24)
Religious Law
- English(1) Democratic values constitute the foundation of the state, so that it may not be bound either by an exclusive ideology or by a particular religious faith.
… (Charter, Art. 2) - Czech(1) Stát je založen na demokratických hodnotách a nesmí se vázat ani na výlučnou ideologii, ani na náboženské vyznání.
… (Listina, Čl. 2)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe shall be a secular state having a separation of State and respecting all religious institutions. (Art. 8)
- PortugueseA República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe é um Estado laico, nela existindo uma separação do Estado e no respeito por todas as Instituições religiosas. (Art. 8)
Religious Law
- EnglishNo law shall contravene the tenets and provisions of the holy religion of Islam in Afghanistan. (Art. 3)
- Dariدر افغانستان هیچ قانون نمی تواند مخالف معتقدات و احكام دین مقدس اسلام باشد. (مادۀ ۳)
- Pashtoپه افغانستان كې هېڅ قانون نشي كولاى چې د اسلام د سپېڅلي دين د معتقداتو او احكامو مخالف وي. (۳ ماده)
Religious Law
- English…
Since ancient times, the identity of Latvia in the European cultural space has been shaped by Latvian and Liv traditions, Latvian folk wisdom, the Latvian language, universal human and Christian values.
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God, bless Latvia! (Preamble) - Latvian...
Latvijas identitāti Eiropas kultūrtelpā kopš senlaikiem veido latviešu un lībiešu tradīcijas, latviskā dzīvesziņa, latviešu valoda, vispārcilvēciskās un kristīgās vērtības.
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Dievs, svētī Latviju! (Preambula)
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
- English…
(b) Judicial power is vested also in the following:
(1) a religious court (beit din);
… (Basic Law: The Judiciary (1984), Sec. 1) - Hebrew…
(ב) סמכות שפיטה נתונה גם בידי אלה:
(1) בית דין דתי;
… (חוק יסוד: השפיטה (1984), סעיף 1)