27 September 2002
Six days ago, Turkey's chief election body barred the country's most popular politician and three other candidates from standing in... Read more
Category: Articles
25 September 2002
Armenia's harsh treatment of a tiny religious minority is causing new strains in its relations with a key pan-European structure.... Read more
18 September 2002
The closure of a number of mosques has led to speculation of an imminent government campaign against the Islamic opposition.
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14 September 2002
The Kyrgyz government has intensified its criticism of Islamic fundamentalist extremists, which Bishkek describes as the main threat to the... Read more
04 September 2002
Orthodox Church lobbies to include confessional preference in census data. But the Russian government disagrees. Meanwhile two-thirds of Russians profess... Read more
02 September 2002
According to the most recent statistics published by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Lutheran Church membership worldwide has grown by... Read more
02 September 2002
A banned Islamic group is growing in strength in southern Kyrgyzstan as a result of the increasing recruitment of women... Read more
30 August 2002
The Protestant church in Inner Mongolia is still quite small but growing rapidly. Inner Mongolia is also a stronghold of... Read more
30 August 2002
Lately, debates at government level regarding the introduction of a special discipline on religious issues in secondary schools' curriculum have... Read more
30 August 2002
The Estonian Interior Ministry has reached a provisional agreement with both the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church under the Constantinople Patriarchate... Read more