Sentence examples for confessional freedom from inspiring English sources

This unease was a war of conflicting values: empire or democracy, birthright privilege or rugged individualism, state-imposed religious orthodoxy or confessional freedom?

At a recent gathering in Istanbul intended to show a united front against Mr Assad, the Brotherhood's Syrian branch pre-empted such fears, issuing a set of principles for a future constitution that would enshrine freedoms and protect ethnic and confessional diversity.

For me, this is quite a violent extension of how the idea of freedom of speech gets transformed into a kind of forced, confessional state.

The problem, for now, is incoherence, not systematic persecution.Russia's difficulty in dealing with religious freedom reflects partly a dilemma about whether the country is a secular or a confessional state.

Freedom of education is a constitutional guarantee in Belgium, but conflicts between public and confessional (i.e., Roman Catholic) schools date almost to the founding of the kingdom and remain a delicate problem within the social fabric.

If Locke is correct, then what we need to prevent confessional conflict is not compliance with a norm such as the DRR, but firm commitment to the right to religious freedom.

Why so confessional?

* 9 CONFESSIONAL, by Jack Higgins.