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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 Minister
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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