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- Title
LA DEFENSA Y PROMOCIÓN DE LA LIBERTAD RELIGIOSA POR LA ADMINISTRACIÓN NORTEAMERICANA (2000-2007). PARTE II: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE (USDS).
- Authors
RUBIO, JOSÉ IGNACIO
- Abstract
The commentaries in Europe about Religious Liberty in the United States are principally jurisprudential and legislative studies. Then, it was necessary to offer an analysis of the work realized by the American Administration: United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) and United States Department of State (USDS). The first part of this article studies the domestic efforts in the effective exercise of religious freedom. In order to protect this liberty, the USDOJ has taken several initiatives against religious discrimination in some areas (education, employment, housing, credit, public facilities, public accommodations, zoning laws, religious rights of persons in state institutions) and has acted against federal crime suffered by a person or a place of worship based on religion. In this second part, the article presents the international work of the USDS and' its Office on International Religious Freedom (OIRF) created by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998. The Annual Reports on International Religious Freedom are a great instrument for evaluating the religious freedom status around the world. Our study concludes with these affirmations: religious freedom needs protection at home and abroad; the USDOJ-USDS answer is not as bad as their enemies believe; and the American Administration supports a positive lecture of the religious freedom that reveals its condition as the first freedom. In conclusion, both Departments seem firmly decided to protect this first freedom, and if the USDS acts abroad it's because the USDOJ is active at home.
- Subjects
EUROPE; UNITED States; FREEDOM of religion; LABOR laws; RELIGION &; state; RELIGION &; law; DISCRIMINATION -- Religious aspects; UNITED States. Dept. of State; UNITED States. Dept. of Justice; RELIGION &; justice
- Publication
Ius Canonicum, 2008, Vol 48, Issue 96, p493
- ISSN
0021-325X
- Publication type
Article