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A senior member of Tajikistan’s Islamic Revival Party (IRP) has complained to Keston News Service that compulsory attestation of imams by a joint religious and government commission in one district alone of the country’s northern Sogd region has seen more than a fifth sacked for alleged sympathy with his party’s views. Keston News Service – […]
A True Orthodox parish in the Belarusian capital Minsk has lodged a complaint to the Council of Ministers over the failure by officials to respond to its registration application within the prescribed three-month period. Keston News Service – 11 October 2002 – “We applied for registration back in June,” a member of the St Tikhon Patriarch […]
A Russian Orthodox priest who has just completed his first visit to the North Korean capital Pyongyang has told Keston News Service that the proposed new Orthodox church now “under discussion” with the North Korean authorities will primarily be for locally-based Russian citizens. Keston News Service – 17 October 2002 – “We are mainly concerned about […]
Plans by the Russian Orthodox Church to open a church in the North Korean capital Pyongyang are part of a wider move to expand the Church’s activity both in communist and non-communist countries of South East Asia, which has had the support of Russian diplomats. Keston News Service – 17 October 2002 – “Some of this […]
A new concordat between the Georgian state and the Orthodox Church is cementing the latter’s special status in society. IWPR – 17 October 2002 – Early one morning this week, President Eduard Shevardnadze and Patriarch Ilya II met in the Svetitskhoveli cathedral in the old Georgian capital of Mtskheta to sign a formal agreement binding church […]
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At a conference in Moscow on cooperation between government and religious organizations on 10 October, Viktor Zorkaltsev, chairman of the State Duma’s Committee on Public and Religious Organizations, called for creating a center in Russia for the training of Islamic clerics in order to provide Russia with greater “spiritual security” and to limit the training […]
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The non-official house church movement in China has drawn wide support among Christian groups in the West. But some house churches have developed in ways that are of concern to Western Christians, particularly as some of these groups are setting up operations in the U.S., according to several reports.The Ledger newspaper (August 24) interviews Rev. […]
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Growing anti-Semitism and poor economic prospects are threatening to extinguish two Jewish communities on the North African coast. JTA – 6 October 2002 – After the expulsion from Spain in 1492, a small number of Jews escaped across the Strait of Gibraltar to two fortress cities that Spanish kings were establishing as beachheads in North Africa. […]
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The head of the “expertise” department of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organisations has told Keston News Service that his department checks between 20 and 30 religious books, magazines and tapes every week before authorising their publication or import. Keston News Service – 26 September 2002 – Jeyhun Mamedov revealed that the five officials […]
Six days ago, Turkey’s chief election body barred the country’s most popular politician and three other candidates from standing in November’s early legislative polls. Liberals in Turkey fear the move could create additional obstacles to Ankara’s membership bid into the European Union. But, more significantly, it may miss its intended aim and boost the chances […]
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