Religion and law

antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany

thumb|right|Konstantin Makovsky, The Bulgarian Martyresses, 1877. Depicts [[bashibazouks of the Ottoman Empire violating adherents of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church inside one of its churches.]] Sacrilege is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object, site or person. This can take the form of irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things. When the sacrilegious offence is verbal, it is called blasphemy, and when physical, it is often called desecration. In a more general sense, any transgression against what is seen as the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege, and so is comin

declaration made by a government or ruler on freedom of religion

French law

legal restrictions designated for Sunday activity

British theologian