A/HRC/34/50/Add.1 Scientology work alongside teachers from outside of the Church. These schools use teaching methods developed by the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard. Although Scientologists complained about what they consider to be unfair media coverage, including by public broadcasting corporations, they pointed out that they generally operate freely in Denmark. 5. Humanist Association 42. Whereas neighbouring Norway reportedly hosts the highest percentage of organized humanists worldwide, the Humanist Association in Denmark, established in 2008, has only a few hundred members. Obviously, the humanists do not consider themselves a religious community. Although certainly not all of them are atheists, and some have their own separate organizations, the humanists generally promote worldviews, ethics and norms without reference to God. At the same time, they practise rituals and ceremonies in analogy to religious communities, including initiation rites, “humanist confirmation” (a term apparently borrowed from Protestantism), marriages and funerals. Furthermore, they also promote freedom of religion or belief for non-religious persons, especially in the field of school education. 43. Since 2010, the Danish Humanist Society has established a dialogue with the Government in order to make it possible for a group as themselves, which shares a life stance but lacks a belief in a transcendent power (“gudsdyrkelse”), to apply for the status necessary to conduct marriage ceremonies. 44. By rendering the acknowledgment of a religious community dependent on faith in a transcendent power, the Danish law deviates from European and international human rights law. Both the European Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee, which monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, have developed jurisprudence that understands freedom of religion or belief more broadly. According to the Human Rights Committee, article 18 of the Covenant protects “theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, as well as the right not to profess any religion or belief”. 1 In other words, freedom of religion or belief covers the whole range of identity-shaping convictions and conviction-based practices, including beyond traditional forms of monotheistic faith and worship. For article 67 of the Constitution to remain in line with the development of freedom of religion or belief in European and international human rights law, it should be interpreted in a broad and inclusive way. The future treatment of the humanists may in this context assume the quality of a test case. V. Challenges arising in the context of immigration and asylum 45. The Special Rapporteur often heard that the Danish people did not much care about religious issues generally. However, public attention could rise swiftly whenever religion comes up in the context of immigration, which has changed the Danish religious landscape profoundly by confronting a traditionally very homogeneous society with new religious communities, in particular Islam. Thus, religion has become visible and tangible in ways that differ greatly from the prevailing Lutheran focus on faith as chiefly concerning the person’s inner disposition. These far-reaching changes have occurred within just a few decades and are continuing, which understandably may cause feelings of anxiety and unease. 1 12 See Human Rights Committee general comment No. 22 (1993) on the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.