Zambia : Religious Minister encourages Churches to apply for the COVID-19 empowerment fund lusakatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lusakatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Religious organizations would be exempt from reporting political activities as required by Montanaâs campaign finance laws under legislation inspired by a local churchâs fight against Montanaâs top elections watchdog in 2004.
Under Senate Bill 162, tax-exempt religious groupsâ political communications would be excluded from Montana s definitions of campaign contributions, election communications, electioneering communications or political expenditures. It s carried by Sen. David Howard, R-Park City.
Chad Hesler, a senior pastor at Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church in East Helena, told the Senate State Administration Committee on Monday that the legislation âfollows in the footsteps of Thomas Jefferson to limit the intrusion of government into the well-being of mankind, which is the essential role of religion.â
15 February 2021
Felix Corley, Forum 18
A court in Lebap Region jailed 20-year-old Jehovah s Witness conscientious objector Nazar Alliyev for one year for refusing compulsory military service. He is the seventh to be jailed in 2021 so far and joins 14 other jailed conscientious objectors (9 of them serving second sentences). We deeply regret the criminalization of conscientious objection, four UN human rights Special Procedures wrote to the Turkmen government in December 2020, adding that Turkmenistan must provide meaningful alternative service . The regime has not responded to the UN.
On 10 February, a court in the eastern Lebap Region jailed 20-year-old Jehovah s Witness conscientious objector Nazar Alliyev for one year for refusing compulsory military service. He is the seventh conscientious objector known to have been jailed so far in 2021. All had offered to perform an alternative civilian service, but Turkmenistan does not offer this. Turkmenistan has rejected repeated Un
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