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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Istanbul stepped up his public campaign with the Turkish government during August, petitioning for the reopening of Orthodoxy’s prestigious Halki Theological School.
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In its survey analysis of the religious freedom situation in ethnically-divided Kosovo (Kosova in Albanian), Forum 18 News Service reports on the continuing systematic attacks in Serbian Orthodox churches, monasteries and graveyards. Protestant leaders have complained that ethnic Albanian church members from Muslim backgrounds at times suffer “persecution“, often from family members. The international bodies ruling Kosovo have done little to promote religious freedom.
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Mormons are only the latest foreign missionaries with plans for Kyrgyzstan – to the dismay of local religious leaders.
Natalia Domagalskaya is an independent journalist in Bishkek. Gulnura Toralieva is a student at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavonic University.
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Given a choice between facing divine wrath and the ire of Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha, some villagers in Tamil Nadu have chosen the latter and gone to court against a law banning animal sacrifices to deities.
© Copyright 2003 IANS India Private Limited, New Delhi. Posted on Religioscope with permission.
Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), formerly India Abroad News Service, was conceived in 1986 to enhance the flow of news and information between India and North America. IANS today is India’s first multinational and multilingual wire service.
Since US forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iran has quietly worked to expand its influence in Shi’a-dominated areas of Iraq. Tehran views the strengthening of cultural and religious ties among adherents of the Shi’a branch of Islam as a vital national interest.
Ardeshir Moaveni is a freelance journalist who specializes in Iranian and Afghanistani affairs.
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EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. EurasiaNet is operated by the Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute.
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The Jains of Tamil Nadu are a worried lot and complain of systematic demolition of their heritage in the southern state.
© Copyright 2003 IANS India Private Limited, New Delhi. Posted on Religioscope with permission.
Leaders of eight religions in South Korea have voiced opposition to a government plan that would integrate the government’s Religious Affairs Office with its Office of Culture.
UCAN (Union of Catholic Asian News) is linked to UCIP (International Catholic Union of the Press). With several offices around Asia, UCA News, the largest Asian Church news agency.
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It is rare in predominantly Buddhist Thailand to find Thai Orthodox Christians, let alone a young Thai from a Buddhist family who has committed himself to becoming a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church.
UCAN (Union of Catholic Asian News) is linked to UCIP (International Catholic Union of the Press). With several offices around Asia, UCA News, the largest Asian Church news agency.
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India’s most famous temple in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, has decided to go hi-tech and will be launching online booking services from next month.
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The largest gurdwara in Britain outside London is to be built in Glasgow, Scotland, at a cost of 10 million pounds.
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