Translation of "Laizistisch" in English

I say it again, in a state... claiming to be a secular state.

I don't know if it's secular.

The Bavarians were influenced by the secular ideas of the French Revolution.

For the good of Turkish society, democracy needs to be pluralist, secular and built on a bed-rock of respect for human rights, including those of its Kurdish minorities.

Whether they like it or not, the majority of sub-Saharan African Muslims are represented by states that are mostly secular, Christian, or dominated by other religions.

We hold firmly to our conviction that unionism must be free, independent and secular, as this is the mission of true trade unionism!

I think that looking beyond — and despite all — the organizational concerns, the inevitable tensions and the unfortunate choice, it was women who came out best, with their ability to listen to and discuss with each other, which proved stronger than the schematic lines within which ideologies, beliefs and unitarianism, whether secular or religious, are frequently locked.

General Buyukanit said in April that the country’s new president must be secular “not just in words, but in essence.”

Despite the described improvements in the country, the human rights situations has worsened and a certain softening of the strictly laicistic order can be observed.

The "Diyanet Isleri Baskanligi", as the "Office of Religious Affairs" reads in Turkish, is the religious authority of the secular-oriented state.

Gazeta Wyborcza ("Electoral Gazette"), founded by Adam Michnik in May 1989, has become a grand national daily despite limited resources, providing informative and secular-minded news in a society where the Catholic church is excessively influential.

Thus the invitation asks for a true participation of all the different population groups, regardless of ethnicity, skin colour, or religion to restore a republican and laicistic-oriented Mali.

When it was recognized by the international community in 1920, about 70 percent of its estimated 800,000 inhabitants were Muslim;15 the state itself, however, was declared afetar (non-religious, secular).

The regime still appeared "secular and progressive", in any case tolerable, while the state of emergency justified some of the most dreadful crimes18 .

The discussions surrounding Turkey's entry into the European Union clearly show – quite apart from the major issue of human rights – the cultural, legal, and symbolic issues raised by opening the European house to admit an Islamic country, however declaredly secular that country may be.

This process, since it inevitably had to deal with the problem of the temporal sovereignty of the Popes (but also because it led to giving the territories gradually acquired a legislation in ecclesiastical matters which had a pronounced secular bias), had divisive effects on the individual and collective conscience of Italian Catholics, split by the opposing sentiments of nascent fidelity to their citizenship on the one hand and membership in the Church on the other.

There, if that is the way of it, we can truly tell ourselves this evening also that the University of Padua is so deeply secular as not to fear, indeed to be glad, as well as being honored, to listen to Cardinal Scola, whom we welcome with deferential respect and sincere cordiality.