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Sharp differences seem to have cropped up between priests who head the five temporal seats of Sikhs over a new calendar for the community.
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Religious leaders have been learning how to promote and maintain Afghanistan’s new stability.
Danish Karokhel is an IWPR editor/reporter.
This article was originally published by the IWPR (Institute for War Peace Reporting), London, in its Afghan Recovery Report (ARR, No. 56, 15 April 2003). The Institute for War & Peace Reporting strengthens local journalism in areas of conflict. Religioscope has been allowed by the IWPR to repost its articles.
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Despite large state subsidies for building Buddhist temples and training Buddhist monks, while “the basics of traditional religions are taught in a historical-informational context” in schools, officials and Buddhist leaders reject suggestions that Buddhism has become Kalmykia’s state religion. Members of religious minorities voiced few complaints about this government support for Buddhism.
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Local officials met Buddhist and Russian Orthodox leaders in Russia’s southern, traditionally Buddhist republic of Kalmykia on 1 April to discuss their common “concern” about the growing influence of religious communities they deem untraditional.
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Six Muslims in the village of Katarzan in the Uzbek section of the Fergana valley, including the local imam, were fined after holding prayers at their closed mosque in February to mark the Muslim festival of Uraza Bairam (Feast of Sacrifice or Id al-Adha).
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Buddhists have staked a claim to an Indian religious site already fought-over by Hindus and Muslims.
Source: VOA News.
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Religious minorities in Gujarat have welcomed Governor Sunder Singh Bhandari’s decision to withhold assent to a bill banning forced religious conversions that the assembly had passed last week.
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Not only parishes of the True Orthodox Church, but those of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church have been denied the right to register, while Belarus’ president has vowed to use all state forces to protect the unity of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Exarchate in the country.
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Fr Leonid Plyats, priest of the True Orthodox parish of St John of Kronstadt near Minsk, told Forum 18 News Service that his community will fight on to be able to worship openly and legally despite the rejection on 27 March of his parish’s suit to overturn the denial of registration. Denis Yelizarev of the government’s Committee for Religious and Ethnic Affairs insisted that the Committee’s assessment against the parish had been correct. “They slandered other faiths, that’s why they were banned.”
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Following the attacks of September 11, President Bush stated that he would launch a “crusade” against terrorism. The word “crusade” with all the historical implications it has was understood, especially in the Arab and Islamic world, to mean a war against Islam or between Christianity and Islam. The topic has been given more space and focus with the now ongoing war on Iraq.
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