Sentence examples for church freedom from inspiring English sources

The first clause of the code gives the Church freedom from taxation.

Requiring Ms. Perich to be reinstated "would have plainly violated the church's freedom," Chief Justice Roberts wrote.

The government said that Switzerland was the only country in Europe to limit a church's freedom in this manner, and asked voters to jettison the provision as discriminatory.

He said the law had "curtailed" the church's freedom.

And we ask the government to protect the church's freedom to serve people".

It's quite clear that neither a Labour nor a Conservative government is going to give the churches such freedom.

He himself believed his stand was essential to vindicate the universal church's freedoms, and events were to prove him right, for his martyrdom became the emblem of spiritual resistance to secular tyranny.

Despite a handful of official churches, "Genuine freedom of religion or belief is non-existent.

In recent days, the law's requirement that religiously affiliated institutions that serve the general public, like Catholic hospitals, cover the cost of contraception for their employees was sharply criticized as an assault on religious freedom (churches and church organizations are exempted from the law).

That organization's president, Dan Stein, has said things like, "Immigrants don't come all church-loving, freedom-loving, God-fearing..

But the church's new freedom was not and is not total.