09 March 2005 China: house church leaders are divided over new regulations On March 1, China adopted the new Regulations on Religious Affairs, first announced by the government in December 2004. The... Read more
09 March 2005 India: Buddhism in Northeast losing originality Buddhism in India's northeast is fast losing its originality with cultural fusion threatening this centuries-old faith, experts said at a... Read more
09 March 2005 Apocalypse in Uganda: a book on the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God On 17 March 2000, several hundreds members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTCG)... Read more
16 February 2005 India: fellowship congregations ease out traditional Kerala churches Kerala's traditional churches can't be blamed for thinking the world is coming to an end. Hundreds of independent fellowship churches... Read more
31 January 2005 Azerbaijan: Hajj dreams shattered Rivalry between two religious bodies is blamed for thwarted Haj hopes of hundreds of Azerbaijani Muslims. Read more
31 January 2005 Tajikistan: Islamic Party fights its corner Once-powerful force is suing local bureaucrats who are trying to stop it fielding candidates in the forthcoming general election. The... Read more
31 January 2005 Iraq: electoral choices vary in Shia areas Voters in the south may be solidly behind the election, but support for the main Shia-led faction is not monolithic.... Read more
19 January 2005 Great Britain: concern over rise in ‘faith schools’ Britain's education watchdog, Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED), has expressed concern over the growing number of private religious schools... Read more
19 January 2005 Iraq: kidnapped archbishop released unharmed Less than 24 hours after armed gunmen kidnapped the Syrian Catholic archbishop of Mosul, the 66-year-old cleric was set free... Read more
17 January 2005 South Africa: Arabic rap moves Islamic youngsters in new way A South African university student here is changing the way young people view Islam by churning out Arabic rap songs... Read more