E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 95 (5) The Council shall be responsible to the President of the Republic for the performance of its business. (6) The Council shall aim at the preservation of religious values and deepening their understanding and practice in society for approaching God and benefiting the society. It also aims at strengthening the personal motives in individuals for serving the religion, the country and humanity, at dissemination of the spirit of fraternity, love and self-denial among citizens and development of their spiritual capabilities and rallying them as an incentive towards what is ideal and best and as safeguard against the tyranny of materialistic values and all the drawbacks of development. It strives, in this field, to preserve the cultural identity of the nation and direct it to achieve the Islamic style in its life together with due regard to the rights of non-Muslims, abiding in the same by ease, graduality and flexibility. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the Council shall have the following objects: (a) dissemination of public and specialized religions education and consolidate it at all its levels in preparation of the learned in the religion to perform their message of religious enlightenment and guidance in implementation of the objects of the Council; (b) dissemination of sound religious awareness, preservation of the cultural heritage of the nation and instilling the religious values in the conscience of individuals and groups by the various means of publicity, information and culture; (c) rallying potentialities and capabilities to patronize the religious utilities by self effort at the level of the various classes of the society; (d) striving to encourage research and publication in the field of religious studies in general; (e) encouraging the citizens to entrust their property for charitable goodness and benevolent works. The Council shall have the following functions: (a) laying down the general policies, plans and programmes for the religious affairs and wakfs; (b) general supervision of religious institutions and places of worship and organizing the activity and employing them in the most ideal way to serve the objectives of the religion in worship and dealing; (c) organizing of the religions message, developing its methods, laying down its programmes and training the missionaries therefor together with patronizing the religions research and participation in the conferences pertaining to religious work;