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Religious Diversity & Human Rights - English Textbook
Religious Diversity & Human Rights - English Textbook
religious
diversity
andhuman
rights
“Nobody is born hating other
persons because of the color of
their skin, origin or religion.
To begin hating, people need
to learn; and if they can learn
to hate they can be taught to
love.”
(Nelson Mandela)
President of the Republic
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Cooperation: Popular Youth Education Center (Vida & Juventude – Life & Youth)
Circulation: 25 thousand copies
Support:
National Anti-Racism Ecumenical Committee (Cenacora)
National Center of Africanity and Resistance (Cenarab)
National Council of Christian Churches of Brazil (Conic)
Center of Reference to Religious Discrimination (CRDR)
United Religions Initiative (URI)
Inter-religious Movement of Rio de Janeiro (MIR/RJ)
National Council of Religious Education (Conar)
Acknowledgements:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE)
and Special Secretariat of Furtherance of Racial Equality (Sepir)
presentation
The Brazilian State is secular. This means that it should
not have, and does not have, religion. What it does have is the
duty of guaranteeing religious freedom. According to article 5,
item VI, of the Constitution: “The freedom of conscience and of
creed is inviolable. The free exercise of religious cults is assured,
and protection of places of worship and of their liturgies is
guaranteed by law.” Religious freedom is one of the fundamental
rights of human kind, as maintained by the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, of which Brazil is signatories.