28 January 2003
Iraq's Shia Muslims compose the majority of the country's population, but the community has long been eclipsed by Iraq's more... Read more
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25 January 2003
A ban imposed on cable television in Afghanistan is seen by some observers as part of a series of measures... Read more
21 January 2003
In the world of Muslim seminaries in India, the Maulana Azad Islamic Awakening Centre in the capital is almost an... Read more
20 January 2003
The Hojjatieh Society was founded in the 1950s as an anti-Bahai group. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered it to disband in... Read more
17 January 2003
President Alexander Lukashenko's speech to mark Orthodox Christmas last week suggested he is considering a wholesale union of church and... Read more
16 January 2003
According to the latest statistics, the number of ordinands in the seminaries of Eastern Europe has increased. In the countries... Read more
16 January 2003
As the National Congress of Peru works on drafting a new constitution, Roman Catholics and evangelicals... Read more
28 December 2002
Which have been the significant developments reported in the field of religion in 2002? John Rakestraw, editor of the the... Read more
27 December 2002
Two masked assailants attacked a small Pakistani Protestant chapel service in northern Punjab on Christmas night, killing three young girls... Read more
26 December 2002
As the war goes on, fundamentalist Islamists in Chechnya are becoming bolder and more violent.
Even for a society used to... Read more