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Articles, interviews and documents
published in English in 2002

N.B.: reverse chronological order, last articles first.

Religion News: Top Ten Stories for 2002

By John Rakestraw (onReligion.com)
28.12.2002

Pakistan: Terrorists Attack Church Service

Report by Barbara G. Baker (Compass Direct)
27.12.2002

Chechnya: Fears of "Wahhabi" Threat

Report by Umalt Dudayev (IWPR)
26.12.2002

United States:
Political and Theological Positions
of Protestant Ministers

Ellison Research
11.12.2002

United States:
Washington Announces Plan
to Promote Democracy in Muslim World

Report by Jeffrey Donovan (RFE/RL)
7.12.2002

Russia:
Tuition on Orthodox Culture
in State Schools?

Report by Geraldine Fagan (KNS)
6.12.2002

Uzbekistan:
Jehovah's Witness Convicted

Eurasianet
4.12.2002

Russia:
Ex-KGB Renews Interest in Religion

Report by Geraldine Fagan (KNS)
2.12.2002

North Ossetia Honours
"Pagan" Saint George

Report by Ksenia Gokoyeva (IWPR)
2.12.2002

Russia:
Destruction of Orthodox Church in Tatarstan

Report by Geraldine Fagan and Tatyana Titova (Keston News Service)
9.11.2002

Uzbekistan:
Prosecution of a Jehovah's Witness

Report by Olga Borisova (IWPR)
6.11.2002

Islam:
Muslims Prepare for Ramadan

Report by Zamira Eshanova (RFE/RL)
5.11.2002

Nigeria:
First Shari'ah Flogging in the South

IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks)
2.11.2002

Latvia:
Christian Science Finally Registered

Report by Felix Corley (KNS)
01.11.2002

Tajikistan:
Further Mass Closures of Mosques

Report by Igor Rotar (KNS)
23.10.2002

South-East Asia:
Russian Orthodox presence

Report by Felix Corley (KNS)
19.10.2002

North Korea:
soon a Russian Orthodox church?

Report by Felix Corley (KNS)
19.10.2002

Belarus:
uncertain future for True Orthodox parishes

Report by Felix Corley (KNS)
19.10.2002

Tajikistan: "political imams" sacked

Report by Igor Rotar (KNS)
19.10.2002

Georgia:
Church and State in Tight Embrace

Report by Lyuda Rayeva (IWPR)
17.10.2002

China:
Eastern Lightning vs. House Churches

Religion Watch
16.10.2002

Russia: Policymakers Want
Islamic Clerics Trained at Home

Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
16.10.2002

Ceuta and Melilla:
Jews leaving Spanish enclaves

Report by Hillel Landes (JTA)
10 October 2002

Turkey:
Moderate Islamic Party's Victory in Polls
Seems Inevitable

Report by Jean-Christophe Peuch,
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
27 September 2002

Azerbaijan:
Religious Censorship Procedure

Report by Felix Corley (KNS)
27 September 2002

Armenia:
Crackdown on Jehovah's Witnesses
Strains Ties with Europe

Report by Emil Danielyan
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
25 September 2002

Tajikistan:
Crackdown on Imams

Report by Nargiz Zakirova (IWPR)
18 September 2002

Kyrgyzstan:
Government Hints at Crackdown
on Islamic Extremists

Report by Zamira Eshanova,
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
14 September 2002

Russia:
Census and Religious Statistics

Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
4 September 2002

The United Church of Christ
and the World Wide Web

Interview with Andrew Lang, Web coordinator
3 September 2002

Kyrgyzstan: Hizb ut-Tahrir Bolstered
by Female Recruits

Report by Ulugbek Babakulov (IWPR)
2 September 2002

Lutheran Church Membership
Exceeds 65 Million Worldwide

Lutheran World Information
2 September 2002

Estonia: Governement Proposes
Compensating Orthodox Church

Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
30 August 2002

Azerbaijan:
Religious Education Sparks Controversy

Report by Gulnara Ismailova (CACI)
30 August 2002

Christians in Inner Mongolia

Compass Direct
30 August 2002

Indonesia:
Christian Villages Burn Again

Compass Direct
26 August 2002

Colombia:
Concerns for Security of U.S. Missionaries

Report by Kenneth D. MacHarg (LAM)
22 August 2002

Poland:
Poll on Attitudes toward Catholic Church

Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
21 August 2002

United States:
Staggering Insurance Hikes
for Jewish groups

Report by Rachel Pomerance (JTA)
16 August 2002

Uzbekistan:
Former Mufti Criticises Anti-Islamic Campaign

Report by Galima Bukharbaeva (IWPR)
15 August 2002

Belarus:
Orthodox Church Destruction

Report by Kathleen Knox,
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
8 August 2002

Moldova:
Bessarabian Orthodox Church
Wins Ten-Year Registration Battle

Report by Felix Corley (KNS)
2 August 2002

Belarus:
Independent Orthodox Church Bulldozed

Report by Felix Corley (KNS)
2 August 2002

Uzbekistan:
Christian Missionaries Lure Youngsters

Report by Ulugbek Khaidarov (IWPR)
30 July 2002

Russia: Are Religious Organs
Equal Before the Law?

Report by Geraldine Fagan (KNS)
26 July 2002

Russia: Land To Be Returned to Church

Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
25 July 2002

Religion and International Relations:
The Case for a Religion Attaché

Article by Douglas Johnston (ICRD)
Reprinted from the Foreign Service Journal
24 July 2002

Macedonia:
Developments in Orthodox Controversy

Report by Zoran Bojarovski (IWPR)
24 July 2002

Document
Discussion on the New Crusader Wars
Interview with Usamah bin Laden (October 2001)

English translation of the interview
conducted by Tayseer Allouni (Al-Jazeera)
20 July 2002

Christian TV Satellite Channel in Russian
Takes to the Air

Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
13 July 2002

Macedonia:
Orthodox Church Conflict Continues

Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
13 July 2002

Russia:
Problems of Registration
for Mari Paganism

Report by Geraldine Fagan (KNS)
12 July 2002

Russia: Traditional Paganism
in Republic of Mari-El

Report by Geraldine Fagan (KNS)
12 July 2002

Macedonia: Church Deal
Divides Public Opinion

Report by Zoran Bojarovski (IWPR)
3 July 2002

Estonia: Registration of Religious Groups
Transferred to Courts

Report by Felix Corley (KNS)
5 July 2002

Macedonia:
Bishop Accused of Treason

Report by Zoran Bojarovski (IWPR)
3 July 2002

Moldova:
Compensation Not Yet Paid
To Bessarabian Church

Report by Felix Corley (KNS)
2 July 2002

Moldova:
Problems of Registration
for Various Religious Groups

Reports by Keston News Service
1 July 2002

Bosnia:
Muslim Cleric Urges Restraint
Against Islamic Charities

Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
1 July 2002

The American Evangelical
Missionary Impulse

Interview with Prof. Mark Noll
(Wheaton College)
29 June 2002

Al Qaeda Disrupted
But Retains Vast Network

Report by Robert McMahon,
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
29 June 2002

Religion in Africa

Interview with Stephen Ellis
(African Studies Centre, Leiden)
5 June 2002

Lithuania:
Priest May Be Secret Agents

Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
5 June 2002

Moldova:
Will Supreme Court Victory
Help True Orthodox Church?

Report by Felix Corley (KNS)
2 June 2002

Hizb ut-Tahrir in Central Asia

Report by Bruce Pannier,
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
2 June 2002

Turkey:
Women Encouraged to Take Great Part
in Religious Life

Report by Jean-Christophe Peuch,
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
26 May 2002

Uzbekistan:
Against "Wahhabism",
Government Backing Sufism

Report by Igor Rotar (KNS)
25 May 2002

U.S.A.
International Religious Freedom:
USCIRF and State Department

Report by Don Hill,
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
17 May 2002

Document
The Islamic Ruling on the Permissibility
of Martyrdom Operations

A jihadist text - attempt to justify theologically a martyrdom operation
in Chechnya.
PDF file - 223 Ko
14 May 2002

Bosnia:
Foreign-Funded Mosques under Scrutiny

Report by Julie Harbin (IWPR)
12 May 2002

Estonia:
Two Branches of Orthodox Church
in One Country

Report by Valentinas Mite,
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
12 May 2002

The Shari'a Debate:
Religion and politics in Nigeria

Interview with
Prof. Rosalind Hackett,
University of Tennessee,
one of the leading experts
on religion in Africa
26 April 2002

Orthodox-Catholic Tensions in Russia

Report by Valentinas Mite,
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
25 April 2002

Crisis in Venezuela:
Analysis from an evangelical perspective

Report by Kenneth D. MacHarg
(LAM News Service)
22 April 2002

Estonian branch of the Russian Orthodox Church registered

Report by Felix Corley (KNS)
19 April 2002

Finding Buddha in Africa:
A Pure Land Temple in South Africa

Report by Sean O'Toole
18 April 2002

Azerbaijan:
government cracking down
on country's main Muslim organizations

Report by Gulnara Mamedzade (IWPR)
16 April 2002

Kyrgyzstan:
Ahmadi community fears for its future

Report by Igor Rotar (KNS)
12 April 2002

Central Asia:
Fetullah Gülen's missionary schools

Report by Bayram Balci (ISIM)
11 April 2002

China: traditional funerals
and cyberspace

Report by Antoaneta Bezlova (IPS)
9 April 2002

China: People's University
planning a Bible translation

Report by Bettina Krause (ANN)
8 April 2002

Why I am not traditionalist

A document written
by Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen
(Qom, Iran)
See introduction here.

Internet Church starts
English worship service

Report by Stefan J. Bos,
ASSIST News Service (ANS)
11 March 2002

U.S.A.:
Scholars get religion

Report by Mark Clayton,
The Christian Science Monitor
2 March 2002

Hajj 2002:
ancient ritual in the modern world

Report by Don Hill,
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
26 February 2002

Turkey: refusal to see
Alevism as a religious community

Report by Jean-Christophe Peuch,
Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty.
26 February 2002

Religion in Africa
Latest news

Updated daily
provided by AllAfrica Global Media.
26 February 2002

Serbian Orthodox sites in Kosovo
under threat

Report by Geraldine Fagan and Branko Bjelejac,
Keston News Service
25 February 2002

USA:
latest statictics for Christian Churches

Mormons now the 5th largest church in the U.S., according to the 2002 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches...
23 February 2002

Religion and Terrorism

Interview with Dr. Bruce Hoffman,
Rand Corporation, Washington,
author of Inside Terrorism...
22 February 2002

Russia:
Varied State Response
to Orthodox-Catholic Rift

Report by Geraldine Fagan,
Keston News Service.
22 February 2002

Al Qaeda News

Electronically selected and automatically updated when new material is published in newspapers, the latest news about developments related to the Al Qaeda network.
21 February 2002

Document
Azzam's Defence of the Muslim Lands

Full text of another important jihadist manifesto by Bin Laden's mentor!
8 February 2002

Sayyid Qutb and his Influence

Interview with Prof. Ibrahim Abu-Rabi
(Hartford Seminary)
about a major thinker of Islamic resurgence...
... click here!...
26 January 2002

Schism in the Russian Orthodox Church
Outside Russia

Includes a collection of major links in several languages related to the current debates in ROCOR.
26 January 2002

Ayodhya News

Electronically selected and automatically updated when new material is published in mainstream Western and Indian newspapers, the latest headlines about developments in the Ayodhya controversy in India.
24 January 2002

Document
Bin Laden's Declaration of War

Text of a booklet still in circulation among radical Muslim groups, containing Bin Laden's Declaration of War and Azzam's Last Will and Testament.
PDF file (833 Ko) - you need the free software Acrobat Reader in order to read a PDF file: if you do not yet have it, you can download it from Adobe website.
24 January 2002

Current Expressions of the New Age

Note prepared for this website
by Philip Johnson (Sydney, Australia)
including a list of selected books and websites
20 January 2002

Faraj and The Neglected Duty

Interview with Prof. J.J.G. Jansen (Netherlands)
about the creed of Sadat's assassins...
... click here!...
15 January 2002

Document
Join the Caravan

A Manifesto of Jihad
by Abdullah Azzam
Full text here !
15 January 2002

Document
What is jihad? what is terrorism?

Reports
about a January 2002 statement
by scholars gathered in Saudi Arabia
15 January 2002

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Articles, interviews and documents published in English in 2002

Articles, interviews and documents
published in English in 2002