Such pillars express the religious beliefs of their time.

State and Entity constitutions forbid discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs.

Religious beliefs included rules concerning purification, similar to other religions in the region.

Canada s taxpayers are not required to support the religious beliefs held by their fellow citizens.

To avoid conflicts and strife within countries, we believe in raising religious beliefs above politics, and keeping them beyond day to day disagreements based on changing interests, so that religious beliefs or ethnicity are not misused for political ends.

The Mossi initially defended their religious beliefs and social structure against Islamic influences from Muslims from the northwest.

It specifies that the Republic of Kosovo is a secular state and is neutral in matters of religious beliefs .

State oppression has included the arrest of Mauritanian Christians due to their religious beliefs and the closure of churches.

The Christian religion was viewed in Rome as contrary to prevailing religious and political beliefs and, consequently, was suppressed.

Theistic evolution is not a scientific theory, but a range of views about how the science of evolution relates to religious beliefs.

The person who wishes the death of everyone who doesn t share his religious beliefs he didn t realise he had this much hatred inside.

The Government continued to harass citizens for their religious beliefs and remained intolerant of those wishing to express independent political and social views.

For example, Americans may define religiosity differently than Middle Easterners, with perhaps a weaker attachment to religious beliefs than is true in Islamic countries.

After the event, Beck gave an interview, in which he criticized Obama not for his tax policies, but for having the wrong religious beliefs.

Some of these practices are based on religious beliefs, but many of the limitations are cultural and emanate from tradition as well as religion.

We need mechanisms to address violations of moral or religious beliefs, but we cannot place restrictions on individuals ability to contribute to the public welfare.

First, couples who share religious beliefs tend to communicate and interact more effectively based on doctrine, and may also positively reinforce and encourage each other.

Despite the differences in their historical backgrounds, social systems, developmental levels, cultural traditions and religious beliefs, they have all contributed to the civilization of humanity.

That has effectively increased the understanding of other cultures and religious beliefs among peoples in various countries and has promoted a more extensive culture of peace.

While laws might be in conflict with beliefs, human rights were universal and a consensus was needed in applying them to all religions and religious groups.

Many have struggled to come out to their communities, in families whose religious beliefs make it hard to accept that their daughters are not sick, just queer.

The Linobambaki did not entirely convert to a traditional Muslim life, and only demonstrated religious practices and beliefs that would gain them advantages only afforded to Muslims.

No one shall be afforded privileges or suffer disadvantage on account of his or her birth, race, ethnicity, language, or political, philosophical or religious beliefs and opinions.

No one shall be afforded privileges or suffer disadvantage on account of his or her birth, race, ethnicity, language, or political, philosophical or religious beliefs and opinions.

To promote a culture of peace, justice and human development, ethnic, national and religious tolerance and respect for all religions, religious values, beliefs or cultures by establishing and encouraging, as appropriate, education and public awareness programmes involving all sectors of society.

Most are non violent and they fall into two broad categories active engagement with ethnic rivalries and religious beliefs and fair, transparent economic development and provisioning of services.

A second problem is that there are no moral principles that are shared by all religious people, regardless of their specific beliefs, but by no agnostics and atheists.

He was nonetheless concerned at the stipulation in law that in order to be registered, religious associations must practise faiths or beliefs linked to religions with historical or cultural roots, as that might result in discrimination against newer religious communities without such links.

In religion, folk religion, and superstitious beliefs, the correlation posited is often between religious ritual, prayer, sacrifice, or the observance of a taboo, and an expected benefit or recompense.

Recognizing and respecting the rich and diverse nature of the community of the world's democracies, which arise out of all of the world's social, cultural and religious beliefs and traditions,

As is common with most ancient civilizations, the objects made of the most durable and precious materials, and thus more likely to survive, were associated with religious beliefs and practices.

Recognizing and respecting the rich and diverse nature of the community of the world's democracies, which arise out of all of the world's social, cultural and religious beliefs and traditions,

The period of service added for conscientious objectors was even longer if the objection was based on philosophical or moral beliefs rather than religious ones, eleven months as opposed to six.

But what is alarming is how private religious beliefs and morals have increasingly shaped the secular agenda of America, whose Founding Fathers had specifically designed the Constitution to separate state and church.

No State could judge a person's beliefs provided that they manifested those beliefs in a legal manner.

Michael Shermer on strange beliefs

My delegation joined the consensus on operative paragraph 4 (a) of the draft resolution on the understanding that it would not be contradictory to the very religious beliefs and principles to which it refers.

Discrimination was rooted not just in the societal beliefs and customs but in the laws themselves, such as the Mohammedan Marriages and Divorce Act and the Wills Act, which prescribed that religious laws governed.

But it is an extraordinary statement for a religious leader to make, because it sets to one side the question of the truth or falsehood, or the ethical value, of religious beliefs. Or rather all that wiring in the prefrontal cortex must be ethical, because it is good for survival.

Cohesive rituals, beliefs and organization were spread throughout the world of Yoruba (and other major African religious tribal groups such as Fon), to an extent characteristic of nations and many organized religions, not simply tribes.

The initiative could therefore be regarded as a coalition against that trend, as a movement to advance mutual respect for religious beliefs and traditions and as a reaffirmation of humankind's increasing interdependence in all areas.

The transformation in investors beliefs is striking.

These beliefs have more or less authority based on the nature of the practices or beliefs and on the group in question.

What, then, is to be done? The only appropriate response is the one chosen by the US Embassy in Cairo, which denounced the film and said that the American government condemns those who offend others religious beliefs.

Article 4 of the Ordinance stipulates that no distinction is made on the ground of sex and that the Ordinance applies to all without discrimination on grounds of ethnic or regional origin or political or religious beliefs.