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American prisons are just as or more religious than the society outside their walls, especially in the high rate of inmates switching faiths and proselytizing members of other religions, according to a study by the Pew Forum.
The Pew Forum survey on religion in U.S. prisons can be downloaded at: http://www.pewforum.org/Social-Welfare/prison-chaplains-exec.aspx?print=tru.
Russia’s 1993 Constitution declares that the country is a secular state, and that religious associations are equal before the law. Yet latterly, there have been complaints that Russia’s state institutions are becoming markedly less secular and that, in the sphere of social service, the law is not being applied to all religious organisations in equal […]
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