Sentence examples for religious directives from inspiring English sources
They did so because of how they interpreted the church's "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services," which ban abortion but allow operations that "have as their direct purpose the cure of a proportionately serious pathological condition of a pregnant woman … when they cannot be safely postponed until the unborn child is viable".
"Our position around the ethical and religious directives never changed.
In accordance with Catholic ethical and religious directives, abortions and sterilizations will no longer be performed.
While none of Dignity's hospitals will provide elective abortions or offer in vitro fertilization, the non-Catholic hospitals will not have to adhere to the church's religious directives.
The Religious Directives document puts it even more assertively: "The professional-patient relationship is never separated, then, from the Catholic identity of the health care institution".
The rules, known as the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, also require medical staff to fully inform patients of all their options.
According to the Human Rights Campaign HRCC), this "religious freedom" directive leaves the LGBTQ community at pronounced risk of discrimination.
Social conservatives say that "marriage" is only between a man and a woman, primarily citing religious imperatives and directives to that effect.
However, studies comparing religious doctrines and directives on end-of life decisions for Christians, Muslims and other believers reveal that instructions from holy books and religious legislative bodies on issues like curative care up to the end-of-life and dying with a clear mind, still allow for a variety of interpretations [ 48].
Charles Clarke, the education secretary, is to make adjustments to a European Union directive on religious discrimination, due to come into force today, which could ultimately have wiped out Roman Catholic sixth-form colleges.
The Indonesian National Police has a written policy prohibiting hate speech but frequently fails to enforce its own directive when religious fundamentalist groups disrupt LGBT gatherings or activities.
