From Foreign Policy» s overview: The report highlighted the deteriorating situation in China, whose government continued to increase
restrictions on religious practice for Tibetan....
Residents have even taken the official Rongcheng credit system a few steps further by adding penalties for illegally spreading religion — echoing recent countrywide
crackdowns on religious practice — abusing or abandoning family members, and defaming others online.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to decide the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it far more difficult for the government to
infringe on religious practices.
This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue endeavor to highlight the various contexts in which antiquity served as an inspiration: from the use of Ovidian myth to
influence on religious practices, antiquarian and proto - scientific scholarship, and the papal banquet.
This exhibition
focused on the religious practices of the ancient Mediterranean world and the modern challenges in piecing together an accurate picture of classical religion from surviving material fragments.
Finally, when the deleterious effects are balanced against the salutary effects of the impugned legislation, the impact of the
limit on religious practice is disproportionate.
Theology, understood as critical
reflection on religious practices, can serve an indispensable integrative function within our divinity school and seminary curricula.
Like the Connecticut Sabbath law, Title VII attempts to lift a
burden on religious practice that is imposed by private employers, and hence it is not the sort of accommodation statute specifically contemplated by the Free Exercise Clause.
Although our Constitution provides some protection against such governmental restrictions
on religious practices, the People have long elected to afford broader protections than this Court's constitutional precedents mandate.