Sentences with phrase «religious organizations fall»

Tax benefits for religious organizations fall into three general categories: tax - free donations, tax - free land and tax - free commercial enterprises.

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It is the task of general sociology to investigate the sociological significance of the various forms of intellectual and practical expression of religious experience (myth, doctrine; prayer, sacrifice, rites; organization, constitution, authority); it falls to the specific sociological study to cover sociologically concrete, historical examples: a Sioux (Omaha) Indian myth, an Egyptian doctrine of the Middle Kingdom, Murngin or Mohammedan prayer, the Yoruba practice of sacrifice, the constitution of the earliest Buddhist Samgha, Samoyed priesthood, etc..

But even if that bastion were, regrettably, to fall, a further protection should be maintained to safeguard the free exercise of religion on the part of organizations seeking to carry out what members believe to be the duties of conscience required by their religious obligations; i.e..

Christian Horizons argued that it was not bound by the non-discrimination provisions of the Code because it fell within the «special employment» exemption in s. 24 (1)(a) of the Code, which provides that the right to equal treatment under s. 5 of the Code is not infringed where a religious organization is primarily engaged in serving the interests of persons identified by ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, creed, sex, age, marital status or disability employs only persons similarly identified if the qualification is a reasonable and bona fide qualification because of the nature of the employment.