FREEDOM OF BELIEF AND RELIGION AS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT

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Abstract

"Human rights are not alien to any culture and they are inherent in all nations; they are universal. "82 Human rights are a complex social phenomenon characterized by specific: political, legal, cultural and economic regularities. The freedom of religious beliefs has a millennial character and their beginnings are grounded in the being of man and his community. Religious freedoms and their regulation by international and regional legal instruments are undoubtedly the foundation of any modern democracy. Based on the well-known concept of the separation of religious feelings from the state-legal system, in the democratic countries, and in that context in the Republic of Northern Macedonia, a specific symbiotic fusion of the state and religious communities is developing. States more or less successfully manage this very sensitive issue elaborated as a fundamental principle of human freedoms, of course only if it is practiced as an individual and not a collective right, which must not endanger the rights of others.