Sentence examples for secular nations from inspiring English sources

Debates pivot on arcane theological points from the ninth century, a time when religious empires reigned, not secular nations.

One of the Arab world's most secular nations, Tunisia now has a freely-elected coalition government, and a new constitution.

Since its founding in June, the infant church has fueled a fresh debate over the interplay of religion and politics in one of Latin America's most secular nations.

Seventeen years after gaining independence from the Soviet Union, Estonia is one of the world's most secular nations; in the 2000 census, only 29percentt of its citizens declared themselves followers of a particular faith.

As is almost inevitably the case when sensitive social issues are exposed to international debate, battle lines were drawn between conservative countries, largely Islamic or Roman Catholic, and more secular nations, though there was no fixed geographical pattern.

But he also quoted recent conversations with presidents Joko Widodo and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – the leaders of secular nations where Islam is the dominant religion – to make the point that the Islamic State attacks were also an assault on, and affront to, the religion they claim to defend.

Your assertion that a "cultural elite [is] trying to create a secularized America" implies that the United States is not already a secular nation.

"Nigeria is a secular nation," he said.

Are these activists examples of a secular nation?

In a secular nation it seemed like "a little revolution", as Le Parisien, a newspaper, put it.

Post WWI, European powers broke up the empire and established secular nation-states.