11.   He allowed Reform and Conservative rabbis to sit on religious councils that govern day-to-day religious affairs.

12.   He was the great demagogic leader in religious affairs, the organizer, and master of the Scottish Kirk, the most popular preacher in Edinburgh.

13.   In March, he was refused accreditation as a pastor by a regional official for religious affairs in Khabarovsk in eastern Siberia.

14.   Orthodox groups believe the courts are interfering in religious affairs by ruling on matters that they think should be decided by Jewish law.

15.   Patsy McGarry, the religious affairs correspondent for the Irish Times, said the response was typical of church officials in Ireland.

16.   The organization said the state was interfering in religious affairs and artificially dividing the church into spiritual and secular entities.

17.   The secular Israeli government has always given the Orthodox parties and rabbinate de facto authority to regulate all religious affairs and conversions in Israel.

18.   This comes as Orthodox Jews, who hold a traditional monopoly on religious affairs in Israel, have proposed to enshrine their control in legislation.

19.   When the religious affairs minister ordered a halt, he was attacked as trying to override the Quranic verses that condone prayers against those who have wronged Muslims.

20.   Orthodox Jews have a monopoly over religious affairs in Israel, and the Orthodox establishment is fighting to keep the Reform and Conservative movements from gaining a foothold.