Sentence examples for confessional state from inspiring English sources

It also shattered the "confessional state", creating a free market in religion.

Warily, slowly, the Pope became persuaded that with Mussolini's help Italy might become, once more, a "confessional state".

Why, if any Syrian wanted to see the results of a confessional state, they had only to look at the civil war in Lebanon.

Keen to stress his distance from Franco's confessional state, Mr Aznar said these were personal issues for individuals to decide.Most Spaniards would agree.

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.

But what if Ireland had never achieved independence, had remained part of the British empire, had not become the confessional state it became after independence – would life have been better for Irish women?

There will be small ethnic and confessional states," he said.

"In other words, Israel will be the most important and the strongest state in a region that has been partitioned into ethnic and confessional states that are in agreement with each other.

Confessional states end badly.

That seemed at least the message to emerge from a heated row over whether crucifixes should hang in the classrooms of Italy's nominally non-confessional state schools.

Even so, today Azerbaijan is a harmonious, tolerant, multi-ethnic and multi-confessional state, an emerging powerhouse that serves as the socio-political and economic conduit between Europe and Asia.