Today, several countries continue to collect a “church tax” on behalf of officially recognized religious organizations, in some cases levying the tax on all registered members.1 These payments add up to billions of euros annually and represent the biggest source of revenue for many religious institutions.
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2021年1月1日 · not identify with any religion and a shrinking share of people who say they regularly attend a church or other house o wo ship. Still, religion c ntinues to play a stronger role in American life than in many othe 1 Chadwick, Owen. 1975. “The Secularization of the European Mind in the 19th Century.”
2016年8月10日 · The amended constitution refers to the church as the “Established Church of Norway” and continues to stipulate that the king must be of the Evangelical-Lutheran faith. The state continued to provide financial support for the church and paid the salaries of church staff until Jan. 1, 2017.
Appendix A: Anchor words for topic identification This table shows the topics included in the analysis and the anchor words that determined whether a particular response mentioned each topic. There are 32 rows, but only 30 topics were analyzed directly; two rows describe topics that were used to create a broader topic but were not analyzed separately: family …
the few months before the poll was conducted. Within this group, about two-thirds (64%) say they heard clergy at their church or other place of worship speak about at least one of the six social and political issues mentioned in the survey, with nearly half (46%) indicating that religious leaders had spoken out on multiple issues.
2009年8月11日 · But as was the case when Bush first announced the initiative, many Americans express concerns about blurring the lines between church and state. Currently, 69% of Americans say they favor allowing churches and other houses of worship, along with other organizations, to apply for government funding to provide social services such as job training ...
2021年10月27日 · es – “church-state integrationists,” “church-state separationists,” and “mixed.” Those who offered four or more church-state integrationist answers (e.g., “Cities and towns in the U.S. should be allowed to place religious symbols on public property” or “The federal government should stop enforcing se
2021年3月7日 · The death penalty is opposed by the church; Pope Francis recently revised this section of the Catechism to say that capital punishment is “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.”
Each Wednesday and Saturday evening, Naomi Magel and her husband attend Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Elgin, Texas. After the service, the couple takes their pastor, the Rev. George Joseph, out for something to eat. Over the past year, one subject has come up in conversation again and again.