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In 2015, Russia banned importation of the Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. [108] [109] On May 5, 2015, customs authorities in Russia seized a shipment of religious literature containing Ossetian-language Bibles published by Jehovah's Witnesses. Russian customs officials in the city of Vyborg held up a shipment ...
In the 1720s, the kabbalistic works of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato were banned by religious leaders. In the 1690s, the book Pri Chadash was banned in Egypt for arguing on earlier authorities. [16] In the modern era, when government censorship of Jewish books is uncommon, books are mainly self-censored, or banned by Orthodox Jewish religious ...
A Theravada Buddhist monk speaking with a Catholic priest, Thailand. The status of religious freedom around the world varies from country to country. States can differ based on whether or not they guarantee equal treatment under law for followers of different religions, whether they establish a state religion (and the legal implications that this has for both practitioners and non ...
Bible trivia questions and answers. What food did Jesus feed the 5,000? Answer: Loaves and fishes. Who were the first two humans? Answer: Adam and Eve. What gifts did the three wise men give to Jesus?
An expanded, Spanish-language translation of A Short History of the World, discussing recent world events, was banned by Spanish censors in 1940. This edition of A Short History was not published in Spain until 1963. In two 1948 reports, Spanish censors gave a list of objections to the books's publication.
“The district cannot ban only some ‘sexually obscene’ books while allowing others,” such as the Bible. (In its news release, the foundation purposely did not capitalize the word Bible).
The 2022 population of the UAE stands at 9.4 million, [3] Only approximately 20% of residents are UAE citizens. [4] According to the CIA World Fact Book, 76% of the residents are Muslim, 9% are Christian, other (primarily Hindu and Buddhist, less than 5% of the population consists of Parsi, Baha'i, Druze, Sikh, Ahmadi, Ismaili, Dawoodi Bohra Muslim, and Jewish) 15%. [5]
In 2019, North Korea was ranked as the worst country in the world in terms of Christian persecution by international Catholic aid organization Aid to the Church in Need. [6] In 2023, the country was ranked as the worst place in the world to be a Christian by Open Doors. [7] In 2023, the country was scored zero out of 4 for religious freedom. [8]