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As the number of Germans returning to their ethnic homeland slowly diminishes, there are signs that the Lutheran community in Tashkent is beginning to recover from the drain of that exodus.
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The Church of England’s 300-year-old investment fund is the best- performing U.K. fund of its kind in the past 10 years, the church commissioners have said, whilst the amount available for charitable purposes has hit a low.
© 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
The producer and host of a Turkish TV news show was sentenced to nearly two years in jail last week for airing false provocations against Turkish Protestants. On April 5, a panel of judges ruled that Kerim Akbas’ programs on Baskent TV had incited violent attacks last year against local Christian citizens and their places of worship in Ankara.
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“Open” and “underground” Catholic communities in Tianjin, northern China, held Good Friday liturgies at the same time in the same cathedral compound, but not together.
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About 100 Roman Catholic priests are planning a trip through some of Colombia’s most dangerous regions to try to heal the scars of the ongoing guerrilla war.
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Most of Iraq’s myriad ethnic and religious communities have wrestled with questions of identity in the tumultuous year that has followed the fall of Saddam. But for members of the Yazidis – a pre-Islamic faith professed by a minority of Kurds – the stakes may be higher than for most. For the Yazidis, the choice between identifying themselves with the Kurds or seeking special status, is a particularly urgent one.
Aqil Jabbar and Wisam al-Jaff are Iraqi journalists.
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The authorities in Kazakstan appear to be getting tough with the Islamic radical group Hizb-ut-Tahrir as it continues to grow in strength. A recent series of arrests suggests the government may finally be losing patience and abandoning its previously tolerant treatment of the group.
Daur Dosybaev is editor in chief of the “Rabat” newspaper in Shymkent.
© 2004 IWPR – This article was first published on 14 April 2004 (RCA No. 276) 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
After March and April’s terrorist bombings that left nearly 50 people dead – blamed by the government on Islamic extremists and linked by some without evidence to Al-Qa’ida – a crackdown on religious believers of all faiths is taking place.
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The head scarf has hit the headlines in many countries that have Muslim minorities — but authorities have taken markedly different approaches.
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Proponents of the secularisation thesis will be challenged by the findings of a new survey in the US which says TV news coverage of religion has increased significantly over the last ten years.
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