Definitions Ethnic cleansing is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.

Muslims, with 222,282 or 3 of the population, form the third largest religious group.

Christians are the second largest religious group and make up 48.2 of the population.

The Arabic decree, however, did not mention radical religious group, but rather religious and extreme, which induced criticism for the vague language that it uses.

In the following list of indicators, the word group shall cover racial, ethnic and religious groups

It should not be construed as a licence to practise a religion, and no one religious group should be able to exert influence over the registration of other religious groups.

The nature of the Internet allows a small group of religious deviants to influence a far wider group with little expense of money or effort (see annex V).

The Women's Bureau was working on the issue, without being influenced by the recommendations of any particular religious group.

Houthi was originally the name of a family or a clan in Yemen, not a sect or a religious group.

The refusal to register the Krishna group as a religious association was appealed to the Minsk Central District Court in 2002.

In those conditions, a group of Kurdish religious men formed a political organization on the bases of Islamic and Kurdish nationalistic ideas.

Adam Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut, or James Holmes in Aurora, Colorado, are not viewed as part of a suspicious religious or ethnic group.

In particular, the victims must form an ethnic, religious, racial, or national group, and the perpetrator must entertain genocidal intent, namely the will to destroy the group as such, in whole or in part.

But because the US Founders many of them descended from people fleeing official religious persecution guaranteed that there would never be a state sanctioned religion, no religious group in America, no matter how small, is made to feel marginalized.

As the Shia Muslims in Bahrain were celebrating one of their religious ceremonies in Muharraq, a group of men showed up and attacked them.

She stands accused of mocking religious texts and religious scholars.

As a result, in a modernizing environment, doctors and engineers can find themselves in positions of religious authority, leading a Koran study group and interpreting scripture.

Lockean natural rights did not rely on citizenship nor any law of the state, nor were they necessarily limited to one particular ethnic, cultural or religious group.

Religious iconography.

Religious Persecution

Religious fundamentalism

Religious Courts

Religious affiliation was 77.4 Lutheran, 1.3 Orthodox, 1.3 other, 19.9 no religious affiliation.

He's not religious.

Tom is religious.

(d) Religious minorities

(b) Religious fundamentalism

Among our complaints this week international scandals, intellectual persecution, the Egyptian Legal system (or lack thereof), the question of beauty and as usual, religious persecution rounding out the group.

The Working Group believes that all States should implement measures to promote understanding, tolerance, gender equality and friendship among all nations and racial, national, ethnic, religious and linguistic groups.

The applicable law distinguishes between a registered religious community and a registered religious association.

In this respect, the Committee notes that the CKREE subject combines education on religious knowledge with practising a particular religious belief, e.g. learning by heart of prayers, singing religious hymns or attendance at religious services (para 9.18).

The conviction of three members of the agitprop punk rock group Pussy Riot for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred has turned the three young women into an international cause célèbre.

It also requires respect for and protection of their religious and cultural heritage, essential to their group identity, including buildings and sites such as libraries, churches, mosques, temples and synagogues.

Religious conservatives were stunned.

Humans are religious creatures.

pay their religious tax

pay their religious tax

International Religious Liberty Association

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development.

Consider establishing a mechanism for preventing religious intolerance and for drafting a convention on religious tolerance, especially given the richness of religious diversity in the Asia Pacific region

Religious politics, or politics based on religious faith, are not invariably violent, even in the Islamic world.

Iconoclasm is the destruction of religious icons and other images or monuments for religious or political motives.

Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1995 31 of 25 July 1995 on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities establishing the Working Group on Minorities,

Alms given on religious grounds.

Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities