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Religious Law
- EnglishThe Tribunals of Religious Communities are the tribunals of the non-Muslim religious communities that have been or will be recognised by the Government as established in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. (Art. 108)
- Arabicمجالس الطوائف الدينية هي مجالس الطوائف الدينية غير المسلمة التي اعترفت أو تعترف الحكومة بأنها مؤسسة في المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية. (المادّة 108)
Religious Law
- EnglishGuyana is an indivisible, secular, democratic sovereign state in the course of transition from capitalism to socialism and shall be known as the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. (Art. 1)
Religious Law
- EnglishWE THE PEOPLE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA-
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- pledge ourselves to guard and pass on to those who come after us our noble traditions and the Christian principles that are ours now.
… (Preamble)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe exercise and enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms is inseparable from the performance of responsibilities and duties, and it is the responsibility of every citizen:
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(f) to promote democratic values and practices in a manner that is not inconsistent with any tenet of Islam;
(g) to preserve and protect the State religion of Islam, culture, language and heritage of the country;
… (Art. 67) - Dhivehiކޮންމެ މީހަކަށް ލިބޭ ހައްޤުތަކާއި މިނިވަންކަމާއި، އެމީހަކު އަދާކުރަންޖެހޭ މަސްއޫލިއްޔަތުތަކާއި ވާޖިބުތަކަކީ ވަކިނުކުރެވޭނޭ ދެ އަސާސްކުމުގައިވީ ހިނދު، އަންނަނިވި ކަންތައްތައް ކުރުމަކީ ކޮންމެ ރައްޔިތެއްގެ މަސްއޫލިޔަތެކެވެ. އަދި އެ ވަގުތަކު ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގައި އުޅޭ ކޮންމެ މީހަކުމެ އެ ކަންތައްތަކަށް އިހްތިރާމްކުރާންވާނެއެވެ.
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(ޅ) އިސްލާމަދީނުގެ އަސްލަކާ ހިލާފު ނުވާ ގޮތުގެމަތީން، ދީމިޤްރާތީ އުސޫލްތަކާއި ގޮތްތައް ކުރިއެރުވުން.
(ކ) ދިވެހިދައުލިތުގެ ދީން ކަމުގައިވާ އިސްލާމްދީނަކީ، ރާއްޖޭގެ ސަޤާފަތާއި، މާދަރީ ބަހާއި، ޤައުމީ ތަރިކަ ރައްކާތެރިކޮށް ދެމެހެއްޓުން.
... (ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 67 ވަނަ މާއްދާ)
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
- English1. Everyone shall have the right to enter into matrimony, in civil or religious form.
2. The law shall regulate the requirements, the civil effects of marriage and its dissolution, irrespective of the form of its celebration.
… (Art. 47) - Portuguese1. Todos têm direito de contrair casamento, sob forma civil ou religiosa.
2. A lei regula os requisitos e os efeitos civis do casamento e da sua dissolução, independentemente da forma de celebração.
… (Art. 47)
Religious Law
- English
The political principles of the state consist of the following:
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– Laying down sound shura pillars that emanate from Islamic Sharia and the heritage and values of the country, that take pride in its history, and that employ useful contemporary methods and means.
... (Art. 13) - Arabic
تتمثل المبادئ السياسية للدولة في الآتي:
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– إرساء دعائم شورى صحيحة نابعة من الشريعة الإسلامية وتراث الوطن وقيمه، معتزة بتاريخه، آخذة بالمفيد من أساليب العصر وأدواته.
... (المادّة ١٣)
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
- EnglishWe, the People of Côte d'Ivoire;
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Reminding everyone, and in all circumstances, of our irreversible commitment to defending and preserving the republican form of Government as well as the secular character of the State;
… (Preamble) - FrenchNous, Peuple de Côte d’Ivoire ;
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Rappelant à tous, et en toutes circonstances, notre engagement irréversible à défendre et à préserver la forme républicaine du Gouvernement ainsi que la laïcité de l’Etat ;
… (Préambule)
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)