Title: Human Rights Rep.1999: Austria - Co$
Author: xenurules@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 04:44:46 GMT

http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1999_hrp_report/austria.htm
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As of July 10, 1998, the Education Ministry had granted the status
of "confessional community" to eight religious groups, including for
example, Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptists, and Seventh-Day Adventists. The
Church of Scientology and the Hindu Mandir Association withdrew their
applications. Later, the Hindu Mandir Association reapplied as the
Hindu religious community and was granted confessional community status
in December 1998. The Ministry rejected the application of the Sahaja
Yoga group; in 1998 the group appealed the decision to the
Constitutional Court.