However, religious ceremonies were also allowed for religious communities which had concluded a contract with the State.

Religious feast days of all religions are calendar holidays, and senior leaders of the country participate in the observance of those religious ceremonies.

Article 14 reads as follows Article 14. Religious rites and ceremonies Religious organizations have a right to create and maintain facilities for free worship and carrying out religious rites, and to maintain pilgrimage sites.

The social, religious and cultural bonds are reaffirmed at marriage ceremonies and thus the background is set for a united, caring and successful family.

Worship, religious rites and ceremonies shall be exercised at a religious organization's premises, prayer buildings and other properties belonging to the organization, at pilgrimage sites, cemeteries, and in cases of ritual necessity and at citizens' will at home.

Folklore in its pejorative sense is a concept loaded with marginalization, which includes the ceremonies and ancient rituals still vibrantly alive in our country's religious and cultural life.

The ceremonies, some of which were local and some international, were attended by senior politicians from African countries, religious and political leaders, former excisers, young people and journalists.

Mladic even participated in military ceremonies.

The Oscar ceremonies are Hollywood's biggest extravaganza.

The active participation of war veterans at future ceremonies was also forbidden and the rule book for future ceremonies is being rewritten.

Requiring prior authorization from the authorities would seriously jeopardize the right of any community freely to conduct ceremonies that are expressions of its culture, including baptisms or other traditionally established religious rights.

The State party notes that the authors proposed to use the site for collective purposes religious ceremonies, rituals and other group undertakings, which require particular safety arrangements and strict compliance with relevant standards.

(c) Commemorative ceremonies, naming of public thoroughfares, monuments, etc.

100. In the area of employment, there is said to be a reluctance on the part of private employers due to mistrust of Aboriginals, who have to fulfil religious duties, sometimes for long periods of time, for instance on the occasion of a death or of religious ceremonies.

Finally, the authors state that the purpose of having a legal address is not necessarily to conduct religious ceremonies and rituals on the site, but to have a centre for the organization of their activities.

The ceremonies are often held in the country of origin.

As matter of fact my husband hates all family ceremonies.

Similar purification ceremonies were held for women who had been raped.

One of the criteria which the authors' application for registration did not meet was the requirement to have an approved legal address, which satisfied certain health and fire safety standards necessary for premises used for purposes such as religious ceremonies.

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to manifest, practise, develop and teach their spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies the right to maintain, protect and have access in privacy to their religious and cultural sites the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects and the right to the repatriation of their human remains.

In these last cases, the families were reportedly not allowed to hold burials and mourning ceremonies.

As Croatia was a predominantly Catholic country, most of such ceremonies were conducted within the Catholic tradition.

(d) Other religions, religious groups and religious communities

(a) Religious practice and conduct of religious affairs

(i) Religious practice and conduct of religious affairs

Many ceremonies and activities were organized to mark the International Day of Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation.

For instance, the Representative was told that ceremonies were held within the community to reintegrate former child soldiers.

I, Shirai, chief of contracts for Public Corporation, hereby undertake to serve, however poorly, as master of ceremonies.

The licence holder is forbidden to carry the firearm during official ceremonies, public celebrations, conferences, symposia, wedding or funeral processions, sports competitions, graduation ceremonies in schools, institutes or universities or any other festive events or meetings at which more than 10 people are gathered.

That project covered weapons collection and destruction ceremonies, as well as public awareness campaigns and drives to register arms.

Oh, Miss Russell, do you think that Nan's disappearance is connected in some way with these, uh, witch's ceremonies?

(vi) All religions, all religious groups and religious communities Nigeria.

7.6 The Committee notes, however, that the State party has not advanced any argument as to why it is necessary for the purposes of article 18, paragraph 3, for a religious association, in order to be registered, to have an approved legal address which not only meets the standards required for the administrative seat of the association but also those necessary for premises used for purposes of religious ceremonies, rituals, and other group undertakings.

The Committee noted, inter alia, that the State party had not advanced any argument as to why it was necessary for the purposes of article 18, paragraph 3, for a religious association, in order to be registered, to have an approved legal address which not only met the standards required for the administrative seat of the association, but also those necessary for premises used for purposes of religious ceremonies, rituals and other group undertakings.

On 16 April, two conscript induction ceremonies in Republika Srpska were seriously disrupted by displays of nationalist Bosnian Serb sentiments.

Religious iconography.

Religious fundamentalism

Religious Courts

Religious minorities

Religious discrimination

Religious tolerance

Religious denomination

They lived in extended families and the oldest person within such an extended family presided over ceremonies and conducted reconciliation procedures.

(d) Religious minorities

(b) Religious fundamentalism