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In the world of Muslim seminaries in India, the Maulana Azad Islamic Awakening Centre in the capital is almost an oddity. The centre is fairly well maintained compared to other ‘madrassas’. But like any other madrassa, the Maulana Azad Centre for Islamic Awakening is caught between conflicting pressures to stick to tradition and embrace modernity.
The Hojjatieh Society was founded in the 1950s as an anti-Bahai group. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered it to disband in 1983. Reports have surfaced in the last year about renewed Hojjatieh activism.
Originally published in Iran Report (RFE/RL), 20 January 2003, Volume 6, Number 3.
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President Alexander Lukashenko’s speech to mark Orthodox Christmas last week suggested he is considering a wholesale union of church and state. Minority faiths fear they will become the first victims.
Natalia Mukha is a journalism student at the Belarusian State University in Minsk.
This article was originally published by the IWPR (Institute for War Peace Reporting), London, in the first issue of its Belarus Reporting Service (BRS, 17 January 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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According to the latest statistics, the number of ordinands in the seminaries of Eastern Europe has increased. In the countries of Western Europe, however, the number of those applying to go to seminary has substantially decreased.
As the National Congress of Peru works on drafting a new constitution, Roman Catholics and evangelicals are pushing lawmakers to approve their own version of Article 71 of the political charter. The article forms the basis for all laws on religion in the country.
Which have been the significant developments reported in the field of religion in 2002? John Rakestraw, editor of the the daily electronic newsletter onReligion.com [no longer published – 19.08.2016], is definitely one of the best qualified persons to offer a summary about media coverage of religion news in the United States. He has put together this […]
Two masked assailants attacked a small Pakistani Protestant chapel service in northern Punjab on Christmas night, killing three young girls and leaving 13 other children and their parents wounded. Some 40 Christians were gathered for a special children’s Christmas program on December 25 in the one-room Presbyterian chapel in Chianwali, a remote village about 40 […]
As the war goes on, fundamentalist Islamists in Chechnya are becoming bolder and more violent. Even for a society used to violent death, the murders of Said-Pasha Salekhov and his son by unidentified assailants in the village of Stariye Atagi, 20 km south of Grozny, caused extreme shock and revulsion. Salekhov, aged 50, was a […]
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A nationwide study of Protestant church ministers explored whether pastors tend to hold the same political and theological positions as the official positions of their denominations. Theologically, 19% of pastors are more liberal than their denomination, 23% are more conservative, and 59% say their own views fall right in line with their denomination’s teachings. Politically, […]
Source: Ellison Research, Phoenix, Arizona
Since the publication of this article, Ellison Research has changed its name and has become Grey Matter Research, www.greymatterresearch.com
Stung by terrorists who attacked America in part because of its support for authoritarian Muslim regimes, the United States has unveiled a new plan to vigorously promote democracy in the Islamic world. RFE/RL – 6 December 2002 – Acknowledging its past failures to promote self-government in Muslim nations, the United States has announced a new plan […]
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