Annual Report, International Religious Freedom: Report Submitted to the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate by the Department of State, in Accordance with Section 102 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002 |
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Page 3 - There were no reports of religious prisoners or detainees. Forced Religious Conversion There were no reports of forced religious conversion, including of minor US citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the Government's refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States.
Page 3 - ... generally have upheld the right of evangelical Christian groups to worship and to construct facilities to house their congregations, the State limits the number of foreign religious workers granted temporary residence permits. The US Government discusses religious freedom issues with the Government in the context of its overall dialog and policy of promoting human rights. RELIGIOUS DEMOGRAPHY The country has a total area of 25,322 square miles and a population of approximately 18.5 million. Buddhism,...
Page 5 - Montenegro provide for the freedom of religion, and the Government generally respected this right in practice.
Page 3 - There were no reports of forced religious conversion, including of minor US citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States. SECTION III. SOCIETAL ATTITUDES The Catholic Church is the dominant religious institution in the country and its priests and bishops are accorded the highest respect in local society. Attitudes toward the small Protestant and Muslim communities vary, given the past association...
Page 3 - Protestants also have been harassed; however, during the period covered by this report, there were no further attacks on Protestant churches such as those that occurred in June 2000, in Aileu district. A lack of prison space, inadequate judicial and police resources, and a tendency to encourage local reconciliation rather than punishment of offenders were factors behind the decision of UNTAET authorities not to charge perpetrators of violence or attacks on churches and mosques (see Section II).
Page 2 - Foreign missionary groups operate in the country. SECTION II. STATUS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM Legal /Policy Framework The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice. The Government at all levels strives to protect this right in full and does not tolerate its abuse, either by governmental or private actors.
Page 1 - Protestants among their ranks, who played a major role in establishing Protestant churches in the territory. Less than half of those congregations still existed after September 1999, and many Protestants remained in West Timor at the end of the period covered by this report.
Page 1 - SECTION I. RELIGIOUS DEMOGRAPHY The country has an area of approximately 5,406 square miles, and shares the island of Timor with Indonesia's bordering Nusa Tenggara province. Based on the civil registration carried out by the UNTAET from March to June 2001, the population of the territory is 739,652.
Page 1 - ... completely accurate because under the Indonesian administration, every resident was required to register as an adherent to one of Indonesia's five recognized religions (Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism, and Hinduism). A significant percentage of those registered as Catholics probably were better described as animists, a category not recognized by the Indonesian Government. It is likely that the number of Protestants, Muslims, and Hindus has declined markedly since September 1999...
Page 8 - In light of societal violence in Kosovo against properties owned by the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian Orthodox religious symbols, UNMIK authorities continued to provide special security measures to protect religious sites and to ensure that members of all religious groups could worship safely. KFOR deployed security contingents at religious sites throughout Kosovo to protect them from further destruction, such as that which had occurred immediately after KFOR's intervention in 1999; however,...