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Britain’s education watchdog, Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED), has expressed concern over the growing number of private religious schools in the country and said they were not teaching children to be tolerant.
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Religious scholars in Pakistan are up in arms at the government’s moves to reduce references to jehad or holy war and exclude such Quranic verses as could fuel religious intolerance from educational curricula.
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The government of Indonesia has agreed to endorse a controversial new education bill, despite protests from both Muslim and Christian communities. Almost 3,000 Muslims joined about 15,000 Protestants and Catholics in a protest march through the streets of Jakarta on June 5.
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Repelled by the corruption of state colleges, many young Dagestanis are turning to Islamic higher education.
Nina Agayeva is a reporter for the Makhachkalinskie Novosti newspaper in Dagestan.
This article was originally published by the IWPR (Institute for War Peace Reporting), London, in the Caucasus Reporting Service (CRS No. 180, 22 May 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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Russia’s 1993 Constitution declares that the country is a secular state, and that religious associations are equal before the law. Yet latterly, there have been complaints that Russia’s state institutions are becoming markedly less secular and that, in the sphere of social service, the law is not being applied to all religious organisations in equal […]
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