In the case of the infrastructure program, which in Ontario cannot be used for preservation of buildings—that's the way Ontario wanted it—in Quebec, where there is a great deal of build heritage, the infrastructure program was altered so that historic churches and places of worship could be restored.

E. whereas ISIS extremists have destroyed numerous Shia, Sunni and Christian shrines and places of worship in Nineveh province in northern Iraq, with images of their demolition being shared on social media;

The temptation is considerable not only to drive out from those areas the people who belong to the neighbouring peoples, but also to destroy their historical buildings, places of prayer and burial and wipe out their memories for ever.

As an immediate step, they should allocate resources and take responsibility for urgent reconstruction of damaged property including places of worship, to ensure the earliest possible return of internally displaced persons.

On the same point, Paul wrote: ``In all probability it will be illegal to teach, even in places of worship, that homosexuality is immoral, even though this is clearly the doctrine of many faiths, including Christianity''.

There has also been condemnation of the public display of Chinese cultural practices as having undesirable psychological, mental, and moral influence on Indonesian citizens and obstructing the process of assimilation; banning the celebration of Chinese religious festivals in public, and requiring religious practice and observation of Chinese traditions to be kept indoors or within the home; prohibitions on any land being acquired for the construction of Chinese temples, building any new temples, expanding or renovating existing temples, or using any other building as a temple; and restriction of Chinese print to in a single newspaper ...[+++]only, Harian Indonesia, the justification being that dissemination of materials in Chinese or Chinese characters hinders the objectives of national unity and ethnic Chinese assimilation.