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Rivalry between two religious bodies is blamed for thwarted Haj hopes of hundreds of Azerbaijani Muslims.
This article was first published on 26 January 2005 (CRS No. 271) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.
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Once-powerful force is suing local bureaucrats who are trying to stop it fielding candidates in the forthcoming general election. The Islamic Rebirth Party says the authorities in Tajikistan are deliberately obstructing it from fighting the parliamentary election scheduled for February 27.
This article was first published on 28 January 2005 (RCA No. 344) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.
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Voters in the south may be solidly behind the election, but support for the main Shia-led faction is not monolithic. Before the election, analysts predicted that Shia voters would largely back the United Iraqi Alliance. But on the day, Shia voters expressed a variety of opinions.
This article was first published on 30 January 2005 (ICR No. 106) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.
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Britain’s education watchdog, Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED), has expressed concern over the growing number of private religious schools in the country and said they were not teaching children to be tolerant.
© 2005 IANS India Private Limited, New Delhi. Posted on Religioscope with permission.
Less than 24 hours after armed gunmen kidnapped the Syrian Catholic archbishop of Mosul, the 66-year-old cleric was set free today unharmed. Although kidnapping has become a common phenomenon in Iraq, it remains unclear whether the motive of Casmoussa’s abductors was political, religious or financial.
© 2005 Compass Direct. – Posted on Religioscope with permission from Compass Direct. – Compass Direct (Santa Ana, California) is a Christian news service dedicated to providing news on situations and events facing Christians persecuted for their faith. Compass Direct maintains an extensive network of news bureaus and correspondents around the world.
A South African university student here is changing the way young people view Islam by churning out Arabic rap songs that capitalise on the popular music genre.
© 2005 IANS India Private Limited, New Delhi. Posted on Religioscope with permission.
During the Christmas season, Christians celebrate the birth of the central figure of their faith, Jesus Christ. But some Christians across America worry that the holiday marking their savior’s birth has become so secularized, it has lost its original meaning.
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Officials want to clamp down on mosques that feed militant Islam, but mullahs say they are being unjustly targeted. Clerics in southern Kazakstan say heavy-handed government tactics to weed out possible Islamic radicals may backfire, and feed rather than curb the growth of subversive groups.
© 2004 IWPR – This article was first published on 10 December 2004 (RCA No. 333) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission. Articles published by the IWPR on Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Iraq as well as other topics can be accessed on its website: www.iwpr.net
Following the victory of the Congress Party at the 2004 Parliamentary elections in India, Sonia Gandhi surprised everybody by renouncing the position of Prime Minister. The following analysis by an Indian political scientist, Pralay Kanungo, shows how her decision, and the controversy that preceded it, were intimately related to the background of Indian religious worldviews.
Pralay Kanungo is Associate Professor in Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He taught at Delhi University and was a Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. His publications include RSS’s Tryst with Politics: From Hedgewar to Sudarshan (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002).
© 2004 Pralay Kanungo
Chaplains from Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh communities are being sought by the Ministry of Defence. About 740 personnel have declared themselves to be from the four religions, but only Christian chaplains are employed by the MoD.
© 2004 Ekklesia. Posted on Religioscope with permission. An initiative of the Anvil Trust, Ekklesia is a not-for-profit think-tank which works to promote theological ideas in the public square. Website: www.ekklesia.co.uk
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