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- The State acknowledges that the homage of public
worship is due to Almighty God. It shall hold His
Name in reverence, and shall respect and honour
religion.
- Freedom of conscience and the free profession
and practice of religion are, subject to public order
and morality, guaranteed to every citizen.
- The State guarantees not to endow any
religion.
- The State shall not impose any disabilities or
make any discrimination on the ground of religious
profession, belief or status.
- Legislation providing State aid for schools
shall not discriminate between schools under the
management of different religious denominations,
nor be such as to affect prejudicially the right of
any child to attend a school receiving public money
without attending religious instruction at that
school.
- Every religious denomination shall have the
right to manage its own affairs, own, acquire and
administer property, movable and immovable, and
maintain institutions for religious or charitable
purposes.
- The property of any religious denomination
or any educational institution shall not be diverted
save for necessary works of public utility and on
payment of compensation.
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