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  2. Religion in Malta - Wikipedia

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    Article 2 of the Constitution of Malta states that the religion of Malta is the "Roman Catholic apostolic religion" (paragraph 1), that the authorities of the Catholic Church have the duty and the right to teach which principles are right and wrong (paragraph 2) and that religious teaching of the Catholic apostolic faith shall be provided in all state schools as part of compulsory education ...

  3. History of religion in Malta - Wikipedia

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    This article details the history of religion in Malta.The Republic of Malta is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, 80 km south of Sicily, 284 km east of Tunisia and 333 km north of Libya, with Gibraltar 1,755 km to the west and Alexandria 1,508 km to the east.

  4. Malta - Wikipedia

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    The predominant religion in Malta is Catholicism. ... Most of Malta's modern artists have in fact studied in Art institutions in England, or on the continent, leading ...

  5. State religion - Wikipedia

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    The degree to which an official national religion is imposed upon citizens by the state in contemporary society varies considerably; from high as in Saudi Arabia and Iran, to none at all as in Greenland, Denmark, England, Iceland, and Greece (in Europe, the state religion might be called in English, the established church).

  6. Christianity in Malta - Wikipedia

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    In public schools religious instruction in Roman Catholicism is part of the curriculum but students may opt to decline participation in religious lessons. Subsidies are granted to private Catholic schools. Pope John Paul II made a total of three pastoral visits to Malta – twice in 1990 and once in 2001, during which he beatified three Maltese ...

  7. Islam in Malta - Wikipedia

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    Malta returned to Christian rule with the Norman conquest in 1127. [6] It was, with Noto on the southern tip of Sicily, the last Arab stronghold in the region to be retaken by the resurgent Christians. [23] The Arab administration was initially kept in place [24] and Muslims were allowed to practise their religion freely until the 13th century ...

  8. Sovereign Military Order of Malta - Wikipedia

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    The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, [a] and commonly known as the Order of Malta or the Knights of Malta, is a Catholic lay religious order, traditionally of a military, chivalric, and noble nature. [4]

  9. Mariam Al-Batool Mosque - Wikipedia

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    The US embassy in Malta has stated that respect to religious freedom is guaranteed by the government of Malta and reports of "forced religious conversion" are absent. [206] Mario Farrugia Borg, who works at the mosque, had stated that by being appointed as a personal secretariat at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and being a Christian ...