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More than two months after the U.S.-led ouster of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi Sunni and Shia Muslims appear split over their reaction to the U.S. occupation of their country: war or diplomacy.
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Access to two more foreign-based websites that carry news on religious developments in Uzbekistan has been barred by the authorities.
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A popular Hindu temple in Jharkhand has opened its doors online, giving devotees around the world a chance to pay their respects. But priests at the shrine are far from happy.
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The government of Indonesia has agreed to endorse a controversial new education bill, despite protests from both Muslim and Christian communities. Almost 3,000 Muslims joined about 15,000 Protestants and Catholics in a protest march through the streets of Jakarta on June 5.
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The Orthodox Church has been angered by Vatican move to upgrade its presence in Kazakstan.
Gaukhar Beketova is an independent journalist in Almaty.
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Indians settled abroad who can’t rush back home on hearing of a loved one’s death can now bid a final goodbye from across the seven seas while watching live webcast of the cremation.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, one of the most secretive fundamentalist Islamic organizations, has been active in Central Asia since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Although the group has never been involved in any violent actions, it is being fiercely repressed by regional governments, which consider its radical ideology a major threat. Hizb ut-Tahrir suffered a major blow last week when Russian authorities arrested dozens of its members in Moscow.
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Detention and trials of suspected extremists have become routine in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. But Dushanbe and Tashkent still maintain different positions on religious activities. While Tajikistan has officially registered an Islamic party, Uzbek officials have cracked down on all Islamic groups as well as peaceful religious observers.
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According to officials of the Russian Orthodox Church – the only Christian Church allowed to register in Turkmenistan – the unilateral decision by the Turkmen leader to abolish the right to hold joint Turkmen and Russian citizenship will not affect the functioning of the Church, although membership of the Church is almost entirely made up of ethnic Russians.
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Without any change in the law or Constitution to provide for them, the steady increase in concordat-style agreements between the Russian Orthodox Church and various organs of state at federal and local level has given the Orthodox Church increased power, Forum 18 News Service reports after a wide-ranging survey. These agreements give the Church special access to institutions such as prisons, the police, the FSB, the army, schools and hospitals, and emphasise Orthodoxy as the legitimate ideology of Russian state tradition.
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