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Religious Law
- English
Within a regime of independence and autonomy, the State recognizes the Catholic Church as [an] important element in the historical, cultural and moral formation of Peru, and lends its collaboration to it.
The State respects other confessions and may establish forms of collaboration with them. (Art. 50) - Spanish
Dentro de un régimen de independencia y autonomía, el Estado reconoce a la Iglesia Católica como elemento importante en la formación histórica, cultural y moral del Perú, y le presta su colaboración.
El Estado respeta otras confesiones y puede establecer formas de colaboración con ellas. (Art. 50)
Religious Law
- English...
(2) Religious observances may be conducted at state or state-aided institutions, provided that-
(a) those observances follow rules made by the appropriate public authorities;
(b) they are conducted on an equitable basis; and
(c) attendance at them is free and voluntary.
(3) (a) This section does not prevent legislation recognising-
(i) marriages concluded under any tradition, or a system of religious, personal or family law; or
(ii) systems of personal and family law under any tradition, or adhered to by persons professing a particular religion.
(b) Recognition in terms of paragraph (a) must be consistent with this section and the other provisions of the Constitution. (Sec. 15)
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…
4. In accordance with provisions to be specified by law, a law giving recognition to marriage concluded under systems of religious or customary laws may be enacted.
5. This Constitution shall not preclude the adjudication of disputes relating to personal and family laws in accordance with religious or customary laws, with the consent of the parties to the dispute. Particulars shall be determined by law. (Art. 34) - Amharic…
4. በሕግ በተለይ በሚዘረዘረው መሰረት በሃይማኖት፣ በባሕል የሕግ ሥርዓቶች ላይ ተመስርትው ለሚፈጸሙ ጋብቻዎች እውቅና የሚሰጥ ሕግ ሊወጣ ይችላል፡፡
5. ይህ ሕገ መንግሥት የግል እና የቤተሰብ ሕግን በተመለከተ በተከራካሪዎች ፈቃድ በሃይማኖቶች ወይም በባሕሎች ሕጐች መሰረት መዳኘትን አይከለክልም፡፡ ዝርዝሩ በሕግ ይወሰናል፡፡ (አንቀጽ 34)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe Republic of Yemen is an Arab, Islamic and independent sovereign state … (Art. 1)
- Arabicالجمهورية اليمنية دولة عربية إسلامية مستقلة ذات سيادة،. ... (المادّة 1)
Religious Law
- English… NOW, THEREFORE, THIS CONSTITUTION IS ENACTED BY THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA, on behalf of the People, for the purpose of building such a society and ensuring that Tanzania is governed by a Government that adheres to the principles of democracy and socialism and shall be a secular state. (Preamble)
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
- EnglishAll citizens of the country, both men and women, equally enjoy the protection of the law and enjoy all human, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, in conformity with Islamic criteria. (Art. 20)
- Persianهمه افراد ملت اعم از زن و مرد یکسان در حمایت قانون قرار دارند و از همه حقوق انسانی، سیاسی، اقتصادی، اجتماعی و فرهنگی با رعایت موازین اسلام برخوردارند. (اصل 20)
Religious Law
- English…
There is no state church.
… (Sec. 40) - Estonian…
Riigikirikut ei ole.
… (§ 40)
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)