We contend that the practice of religious war tax resistance was given safe harbor in an Act of Congress in 1982 and has been recognized by the courts.
To the contrary, it is the brainchild of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a well-meaning American cleric who has spent years trying to promote interfaith understanding, not an apostle of religious war like Osama bin Laden.
And what they are moving towards sure beats religious strife and war hanging over their heads.
They were joined at the Cenotaph by religious leaders and war veterans for a wreath-laying ceremony.
Both documents are available on my website at www.kovsky.com To summarize the legal position: Elizabeth is maintaining a religious practice of war tax resistance similar to practices that have been carried on by many persons for many years.
The Vatican Bank, known officially as the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), was created during World War II to administer accounts held by religious orders, cardinals, bishops and priests.
Thirteen of the 38 members of the Win Without War coalition are religious groups, for example.
Before the Gulf war, only religious Shia Muslim women wore the abaya, the traditional head-to-toe black cloak.
Not so long ago a small piece of land on the edge of a continent was at war, torn by religious and cultural differences, with its two peoples disputing the ownership of the land that both claimed as rightfully theirs.
The result has been a grinding war of attrition between the religious and the secular in which neither side ever gains the upper hand but each at one time or another comes to believe that the other is prevailing.
In 2003 only 10% of Americans said that their religious beliefs shaped their opinions on the Iraq war.
The job of a military chaplain serving in a war zone goes well beyond conducting religious rituals and offering spiritual counseling.
For many religious Israelis, the lightning victory of the 1967 war was proof of divine intervention.
Mr Hadi was elected president in February and immediately said one of his most important tasks was the "continuation of war against al-Qaeda as a religious and national duty".
French laws enacted after World War II ban the compilation of information about religious affiliation without permission.
After the war, the group transformed itself into a lay religious organisation, adopting the name Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), and embracing the faith of the 700-year-old Nichiren Shoshu sect.
But while some of these later works have the suggestion of Christian themes, with the war's conclusion never again would Braque use such explicit religious symbols.
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Also at risk from the war next door could be Albania's status as an oasis of religious tolerance in a sea of sectarian hatred.
Religious tolerance began to crumble, culminating seven years later in the outbreak of the 30 Years War.
And so religious volunteers, like al-Sudani, who regard a respectful burial of these victims of war as a crucial calling, have come forth to give the dead a proper resting place.
Speaking to a black religious group Wednesday in Miami, Florida, Dean -- an outspoken critic of the Iraq war -- raised the question of whether money spent on the conflict would have been better spent on flood-control projects in New Orleans, Louisiana.
One one hand, Germany's constitution, written after the second world war to prevent any repeat of Nazi horrors, assures the rights of parents and of religious freedom.
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