Eigen, op. cit.

The Committee is concerned at the preference given to the Jewish religion in the allocation of funding for religious bodies, to the detriment of Muslims, Christians, Druze and other religious groups.

Media organizations, parent teacher associations, religious groups, community development organizations, children and youth groups, professional and business groups can all have crucial roles in assisting children.

Meeting with the Venerable Tep Vong, Head of the Buddhist Mohanikay Order

The computer schools are established in association with existing communities such as Catholic groups, women s groups and environmental groups.

The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) is an international fellowship organization consisting of 188 Baptist conventions and unions, comprising a membership of nearly 41 million baptized believers.

69. The Special Rapporteur had interviews with representatives and followers of the Church of Scientology and with the German authorities, representatives of religious minorities and other groups and communities in the field of belief and religion and non governmental organizations, including those for victims of sects and psycho groups.

(d) Vocational training, adult education, international civics education work, exchange of groups of society

These actors include parliamentarians, trade unions, academic and research institutes, community groups, businesses, religious groups and the media.

The Commission had probed complaints from religious minorities notably the Baha is .

C. Other groups and communities in the field of religion and belief

Certain religious groups, including the Baha apos i community, continued to be persecuted.

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.

It is also to be noted that sex education is not compulsory in school because of the objections of some church and religious groups.

Legal representative of Educación Popular con Mujeres group

CPC is funded entirely from the voluntary contributions of its member churches and component bodies.

This includes cases where local members of the clergy lead attempts to convert or groups of believers attack members of minority religious groups or their places of worship with the aim of converting them.

(i) Competition in the area of religion and belief between traditional religions on the decline and a multitude of new groups and communities claiming the status of religions, but often described as sects, or psycho groups or commercial enterprises

Note Due to small numbers of some religious groups, they are sometimes combined and categorized as Other .

The National Policy of Education and the strategies of intervention launch an appeal for involvement of social agents NGOs, Associations, Religious Confessions, and the Civil Society.

C. Other groups and communities in the field of religion and belief 48 68 11

49. In these talks, one and the same group or community might be described, depending on whom he was talking to, as a new religious movement, a religion, a sect, or alternatively a psycho group.

Only those groups officially registered with the state as religious associations can enjoy these aspects of the free practice of religion.

It's reported that you maligned religious and racial groups in class.

What they face can be described rather as a climate of suspicion, or latent intolerance, responsibility for which, in their view, lies with the major Churches, which are anxious to preserve their dominant religious status and stem the loss of members to other groups and communities in the field of religion and belief.

Lots of people are used to having a spiritual tribe, or a church tribe, having a work tribe, having a community tribe.

75. The Committee has taken note of the information provided in paragraphs 21 to 24 of the report which make reference to religious groups and the rights accorded to them by the Constitution.

There were fascists and extremists in every nation and in every religion.

Following the Summit, CPC component bodies held special events or programmes on the Summit, for example the Asian Pacific CPC and the Indian CPC Regional Committee held a seminar for churches and ecumenical bodies in August 1992.

In particular, the draft constitution of the association stated that the new body aspired to making the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, which is only one of many branches of Vishnu Hinduism, the only religious organization representing Vishnuism in Belarus.

This situation is said to be the result, in particular, of the intervention of the major Churches and of their staff responsible for sects, who are regarded as specialists and act as an interest group in dealings with the State in order to counter competition from other groups and communities by labelling them all, without distinction, as sects or psycho groups.

Also in May, Pastor Samuel Mérida, President of the Synod of the Guatemalan National Presbyterian Church, composed of members of religious orders from various ethnic groups, was abducted for one week.

81. Parent teacher associations and ex drug abuser self help groups have been by far the most active civic groups in drug abuse prevention at the community level.

Scientology appears to be closer to minority groups such as the Jehovah apos s Witnesses, the Unification Church, The Family and the Mormons, and is said to assist them with advice, moral support and public relations.

It urged Tashkent to encourage freedom for all religious groups.

(f) Conducts workshops for local and area missionary groups

4. The Special Rapporteur also talked to representatives of the Catholic and Protestant Churches and the Jewish, Orthodox and Muslim minorities, and with the Bhagwans, Baha apos is, Hare Krishnas, Mormons, Jehovah apos s Witnesses, the Church of Unification and the Church of Scientology.

179. Moreover, a number of governmental, civil society and religious institutions are developing educational and health programmes with sex workers.

From 2001, the ACSJC co operated with the National Committee on Human Rights Education in fostering human rights education in its substantial national network including schools, religious orders, parishes, social justice groups and church agencies.

It is not a confrontation between religions, but fundamentalist religious groups have severely exacerbated the conflict.

In other words, the State possesses a sufficiently broad range of legal instruments to combat the various guises adopted by groups and communities cloaking themselves under religion, and to deal with any misunderstandings that arise in respect of groups and communities involved in matters of religion and belief.

Another explicit aim was to contribute to the enhancement of a collective cultural identity.

54. The representatives of the Study Commission explained that it had been set up on the basis of article 4 of the Constitution, following complaints by victims and parents of victims of sects and psycho groups, and by religious organizations not wishing to be equated with the groups and communities complained of.

Around 25,000 faithful are expected, including mass groups from Italy and Belgium and a delegation of around 200 members of the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity.

Finally, he had consultations with associations of victims of sects, the Bundestag Study Commission on sects and psycho groups, and the authorities.