E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 87 2. The Revised Penal Code of the Philippines provides for the punishment of any public officer or employee who prevents or disturbs the ceremonies or any manifestation of any religion or performs acts notoriously offensive to the feelings of the faithful. It provides: ’The penalty of prison correctional in its minimum period shall be imposed upon any public officer or employee who shall prevent or disturb the ceremonies or manifestation of any religion. If the crime shall have been committed with violence or threats, the penalty shall be prison correctional in its medium and maximum periods.’ (art. 132, Revised Penal Code) ’The penalty of arresto mayor in its maximum period to prison correctional in its minimum period shall be imposed upon anyone who in a place devoted to religious worship or during the celebration of any religious ceremony shall perform acts notoriously offensive to the feelings of the faithful.’ (art. 133, Revised Penal Code) 3. The Civil Code of the Philippines subjects a person to damages for obstructing or violating the freedom of religion, in these terms: ’Any public officer or employee or any private individual, who directly or indirectly obstructs, defeats, violates or in any manner impedes or impairs any of the following rights and liberties of another person shall be liable to the latter for damages. ’(1) Freedom of religion ...’ (Art. 32, Civil Code of the Philippines). 4. The following provisions of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines guarantee the separation of Church and State and the freedom of religious profession and worship. ’The separation of Church and State shall be inviolable.’ (sect. 6, art. II) ’Charitable institutions, churches, parsonages or convents appurtenant thereto, mosques and non-profit cemeteries, and all lands, buildings and improvements actually, directly or exclusively used for religious, charitable or educational purposes shall be exempt from taxation.’ (sect. 28 (3), art. VI) ’No public money or property shall ever be appropriated, applied, paid or used, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit or support of any sect, church, denomination, sectarian institution, or system or religion or for the use, benefit or support of any priest, preacher, minister, or other religious teacher or dignitary as such, except when the priest, preacher,