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The government can also influence religious practice through the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act. The act was passed in 1990 and revised in 2001 in response to actions that the Government viewed as threats to religious harmony. This includes aggressive and "insensitive" proselytizing and "the mixing of religion and politics."
The Inter-Racial Confidence Circles (IRCCs) were formed in 2002 by then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong against the backdrop of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, and the arrest in December 2001 of 15 Jemaah Islamiyah members in Singapore who planned to bomb diplomatic missions and attack nationals of Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States based in Singapore.
The idea of having a Code on Religious Harmony was proposed by the then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in September [1] or October 2002. [2] This followed strains in racial harmony in the country following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the arrest and detention of members of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist network in ...
Harmony Centre @ An-Nahdhah is a visitor center located within Masjid An-Nahdhah. It was officially opened on October 7, 2006, by Lee Hsien Loong , the prime minister of Singapore. The centre represents one of the initiatives of the Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura to bring about a greater understanding of Islam in Singapore.
The Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act ("MRHA") [5] is a Singapore statute allowing the Government to act promptly and effectively [6] to "nip the budding effects of inter-religious discord", by taking discreet steps to prevent what it perceives to be "factional political activity along racial-religious lines" from escalating into situations which threaten to harm the religious harmony ...
The Declaration of Religious Harmony, which was published in 2003, is a seminal document, which the National Council of Churches of Singapore supported and helped create. On 3 September 2008, the sociologist and Pentecostal pastor, Mathew Mathews, who was named a visiting fellow of the Sociology department at the National University of ...
Pages in category "Religion in Singapore" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Declaration of Religious Harmony; F. Freedom of religion ...
Following this episode, the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act was passed in 1990 as an additional legal instrument to keep politics and religion separate in Singapore. The law gives the Minister for Home Affairs the power to issue restraining orders against any religious leader whose sermons, speeches or actions threaten Singapore's ...