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Religious Law
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Paragraph 2. Religious marriage has civil effects, in accordance with the law.
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§ 2º O casamento religioso tem efeito civil, nos termos da lei.
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Religious Law
- EnglishProvisions on the organisation and administration of the Evangelic Lutheran Church are laid down in the Church Act.
The legislative procedure for enactment of the Church Act and the right to submit legislative proposals relating to the Church Act are governed by the specific provisions in that Code. (Sec. 76) - FinnishKirkkolaissa säädetään evankelis-luterilaisen kirkon järjestysmuodosta ja hallinnosta.
Kirkkolain säätämisjärjestyksestä ja kirkkolakia koskevasta aloiteoikeudesta on voimassa, mitä niistä mainitussa laissa erikseen säädetään. (76 §) - SwedishI kyrkolagen finns bestämmelser om den evangelisk-lutherska kyrkans organisation och förvaltning.
Angående lagstiftningsordningen för kyrkolagen och rätten att ta initiativ som angår den gäller det som särskilt bestäms i kyrkolagen. (76 §)
Religious Law
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The State has no official religion. (Art. 14)
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El Estado no tiene religión oficial. (Art. 14)
Religious Law
- English(1) The State shall be based upon the belief in the One and Only God.
… (Art. 29) - Indonesian(1) Negara berdasar atas Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa.
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Religious Law
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Churches and religious communities are separated from the State.
The law regulates the relation between the State and the churches and religious communities.
Within the limits and forms determined by the law, conventions to be approved by the chamber of deputies may specify the relation between the State and the churches and religious communities. (Art. 120)
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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(b) Judicial power is vested also in the following:
(1) a religious court (beit din);
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(ב) סמכות שפיטה נתונה גם בידי אלה:
(1) בית דין דתי;
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Religious Law
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(3) No religion shall have a state character. The public authorities shall take into account the religious beliefs of Spanish society and shall consequently maintain appropriate cooperation relations with the Catholic Church and other confessions. (Sec. 16) - Spanish…
3. Ninguna confesión tendrá carácter estatal. Los poderes públicos tendrán en cuenta las creencias religiosas de la sociedad española y mantendrán las consiguientes relaciones de cooperación con la Iglesia Católica y las demás confesiones. (Art. 16)
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.
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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
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3. Nothing in this Article contained shall, in any way, affect the rights, other than those on marriage, of the Greek-Orthodox Church or of any religious group to which the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article 2 shall apply with regard to their respective members as provided in this Constitution. (Art. 22) - Greek…
3. Ουδέν των εν τω παρόντι άρθρω περιλαμβανομένων επηρεάζει καθ’ οιονδήποτε τρόπον τα δικαιώματα, πλην των εις τον γάμον αναφερομένων, της ελληνικής ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας ως προς τους ανήκοντας εις αυτήν ή οιασδήποτε θρησκευτικής ομάδος, δι’ ην εφαρμόζονται αι διατάξεις της τρίτης παραγράφου του άρθρου 2, ως προς τα μέλη αυτής, ως εν τω Συντάγματι ορίζεται. (Αρθρον 22) - Turkish...
3.Bu Maddede yer alan hiçbir şey, rum-ortodoks kilisesinin veya madde 2'nin 3. fıkrası hükümlerinin bu Anayasa'da belirtildiği şekilde ilgili üyelerine göre geçerli olduğu herhangi bir dini grubun evlilik dışındaki haklarını hiçbir şekilde etkilemeyecektir. (Madde 22)