According to the 2013 government census, the most recent official data available, Sunni Muslims constitute 89 percent of the population and Hindus 10 percent. The remainder of the population is predominantly Christian, mostly Roman Catholic, and Theravada-Hinayana Buddhist.
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Rules for Yatis from Kalpasutra of Bhadrabahu
During the Paggusan monks or nuns are allowed to go and return, for the sake of collecting alms, not farther than a Yogana, and a Krosa (from their lodgings). (10) If there is (in their way) an always flowing river which always contains water, they are not allowed to travel for a Yogana and a Krosa. (11) But if the river is like the Eravati near Kunala, such that it can be crossed by putting one foot in the water and keeping the other in the air, there it is allowed to travel for a Yogana and a Krosa. (12) But where that is impossible, it is not allowed to travel for a Yogana and a Krosa
A free man’s worship by Bertrand Russell-1902
The worship of Force, to which Carlyle and Nietzsche and the creed of Militarism have accustomed us, is the result of failure to maintain our own ideals against a hostile universe: it is itself a prostrate submission to evil, a sacrifice of our best to Moloch. If strength indeed is to be respected, let us respect rather the strength of those who refuse that false "recognition of facts" which fails to recognize that facts are often bad.
DOCUMENTS OF THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL : 1962-1965 CE
Opening Address by John XXIII-October 11, 1962 Constitutions Dei VerbumLumen GentiumSacrosanctum ConciliumGaudium et Spes Declarations Gravissimum EducationisNostra AetateDignitatis Humanae Decrees Ad GentesPresbyterorum OrdinisApostolicam ActuositatemOptatam TotiusPerfectae CaritatisChristus DominusUnitatis RedintegratioOrientalium EcclesiarumInter Mirifica Closing Address by Paul VI Read More
Istanbul Declaration – OIC 13th Session of Islamic Summit Conference-14/04/2016
We, the Kings and Heads of State and Government of the Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), gathering at the 13th Session of the Islamic Summit Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, on 14-15 April 2016;
Presidential Address by Aga Khan at the International Seerat Conference – 1976
There is no justification for delaying the search for the answer to this question by the Muslims of the world, because we have the knowledge that Islam is Allah's final message, the Qur'an His final book and Muhammed His last Prophet. We are blessed that the answers drawn from these sources guarantee that neither now, nor at any time in the future will we be going astray.
Haji Bibi vs H.H. Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah-01/10/1908
Are the offerings made by the Khoja community of Bombay to the Aga Khan made to him for his sole use and benefit or for the use and benefit of certain members of his family?
Hanukkah(חֲנוּכָּה)-Cemach Feldstein
Hanukkah, therefore, has become the Festival of light. The legend tells us that the little jar of oil, which the Hasmoneans found inside the Temple after their victory, was so small that it was only sufficient for one day. Miraculously, the oil lasted for eight days.
Statement from members of International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance on crisis in Myanmar
We condemn any attack on places of worship in Myanmar and support all who pursue peace and human rights in Myanmar. Albania, Australia, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Kosovo, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, US and the UK.
Buddhism in history : Decline of Buddhism in India-DD. Kosambi(1956)
The devout emperor Harsha, on the other hand, managed to reconcile war with Buddhism just as he reconciled his worship of the Sun god and Maheshwar. Harsha's army increased during thirty years of constant, aggressive warfare to 60,000 elephants, 100,000 cavalry, and a still larger number of foot soldiers. He was Buddhist enough to forgive the assassin whom he had disarmed, when the assembled kings and nobles demanded the death punishment.
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone-by Immanuel Kant-1794
If morality finds in the holiness of its law an object of the greatest respect, then at the level of religion it presents the ultimate cause, which consummates those laws, as an object of adoration and thus appears in its majesty. But anything, even the most sublime, dwindles under the hands of men when they turn the idea of it to their own use.
Secularism-Archbishop Davide dei conti Riccardi-1893
Secularism-Davide Riccardi I announce, dear Diocesans, the arrival of Lent. And since custom has it that in giving this announcement each Bishop carries out some important point of religion, I will start talking to you about Catholic priests. My purpose,…
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Biblical concept of ‘Hereafter’ By Robert G. Ingersoll
I need not go further in bible quotations to show that woman, throughout the old testament, is a degraded being, having no rights which her husband, father, brother, or uncle is bound to respect. Still, that is bible doctrine, and that bible is the word of a just and omniscient God!
God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn most of us-Ingersoll’s Lecture on Bible
The bible was the real persecutor. The bible burned heretics, built dungeons, founded the Inquisition, and trampled upon all the liberties of men. How long, O how long, will mankind worship a book? How long will they grovel in the dust before the ignorant legends of the barbaric past? How long, O how long, will they pursue phantoms in a darkness deeper than death?
Christ was not kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha-Robert G. Ingersoll
WAS he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster? Was he gentler than Laotse, more universal than Confucius? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno? Did he express grander truths than Cicero? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza's? Was his brain equal to Kepler's or Newton's? Was he grander in death—a sublimer martyr than Bruno?
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