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ENGLISH VERSION: Russia: pressure on Tatarstan protestants

The head of the FSB security service in Aznakayevo, a town in mainly Muslim-populated Tatarstan, has strongly denied to Forum 18 News Service that his officers have tried to expel Rafis Nabiullin, the pastor of a small Evangelical...

Опубликовано: 22.11.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: "Substantial Progress" Made Based on "Positive Spirit". Vatican Evaluation of Relations Between Catholic and Orthodox Churches

One of the most important elements of the decree "Unitatis Redintegratio" (UR) -- still valid, 40 years after its promulgation --, is that of relations with the Orthodox Churches. The Council exhorted everyone, "but especially those who intend...

Опубликовано: 19.11.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Georgia: Violence against religious minorities continues

Violence and the threat of violence against Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic and Pentecostal religious minorities continues, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. For example, a Baptist deacon, Zurab Khutsishvili, has been banned by police from building a house and...

Опубликовано: 05.11.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Notes from the underground. An independent Russian Orthodox congregation has been following ancient traditions in a Stapleton basement

The odyssey of the Rev. Vladimir Shishkoff and the parishioners of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church ended one day in December 2001 when they turned a Stapleton basement into a warm and thriving church.

Опубликовано: 01.11.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Macedonia: Monastery demolished – another church demolition planned, and Metropolitan to be jailed?

A Macedonian government official, Dr Cane Mojanovski, has refused to confirm or deny to Forum 18 News Service reports that the government intends to demolish the Serbian Orthodox Church in the village of Luzani. The reports follow the...

Опубликовано: 26.10.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: U.S. Episcopal Church Criticized for Consecrating Gay Bishop

An Anglican church commission on Monday sharply criticized the U.S. Episcopal Church for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the church to apologize and refrain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union.

Опубликовано: 18.10.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: XINJIANG: Linked religious practice and state control levels?

China maintains few controls on religious life in the mountainous Altai [Altay] region in the far north of Xinjiang, Forum 18 News Service has noted, apparently because there are only low levels of Islamic, Buddhist, Pagan, Orthodox and...

Опубликовано: 12.10.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: The perils of accommodation: Russia and John Paul II. By John L. Allen Jr., Moscow

Russia has haunted Pope John Paul II, from the confrontation with Communism during his first decade to his push for reconciliation with the Russian Orthodox in the last. This first Slavic pope has long dreamed, so far fruitlessly,...

Опубликовано: 29.09.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: The ultra-Orthodox innocents

The following story is particularly appropriate for the 10 days of penitence between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In November 2003, President Moshe Katsav created a stir when at a speech to the first conference of the Yahad...

Опубликовано: 23.09.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Azerbaijan: Imam barred from travel to OSCE conference

Forum 18 News Service has been unable to discover from the Azerbaijani authorities why on 12 September border guards at Baku airport prevented religious freedom activist and imam Ilgar Ibrahimoglu Allahverdiev from travelling to Brussels to take part...

Опубликовано: 17.09.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Патриарх Варфоломей отвергает теорию "Москвы-Третьего Рима", предлагаемую Москвой

According to the Athens newspaper To Vima of 8 July 2004, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew responded to the "3rd Rome" theory of the Patriarch of Moscow (which had been brought up for discussion during the 8th International Assemblage of...

Опубликовано: 15.09.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Catholic Church always was a church of a minority. Interview with Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz

NCR Rome Correspondent John L. Allen Jr. traveled to Moscow with a Vatican delegation to return a late 17th-early 18th century copy of the Icon of the Madonna of Kazan, which was presented to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy...

Опубликовано: 09.09.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Insurgents Seize School in Russia and Hold Scores

ESLAN, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 2 - Heavily armed insurgents, some with explosives strapped to their bodies, seized a school here in southern Russia on Wednesday, herded scores of schoolchildren, parents and teachers into its gymnasium and threatened to...

Опубликовано: 02.09.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Ashgabat Relaxes Religion Rules

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan -- Pastor Pavel Fedotov was in church leading services when the bulldozers and wrecking balls showed up. Over the next week, they razed his house of worship as part of the authoritarian Turkmen government's crackdown on...

Опубликовано: 02.08.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Bulgarian Church Tensions Hits the Roof

Bitter real estate struggle between branches of Orthodox Church forces hundreds of clergy to preach outdoors. By Albena Shkodrova in Sofia (BCR No 509, 30-Jul-04) A massive brass chandelier, a human-sized wooden cross, several icons printed on glossy...

Опубликовано: 01.08.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Autocracy or Theocracy? By Lawrence A. Uzzell

Is Russia becoming a theocracy? The country's increasingly monolithic political structure seems to call for a monolithic ideology, and the strongest available candidate is Russian Orthodox Christianity. Today's Moscow Patriarchate uniquely combines deep roots in Russian history, instinctive...

Опубликовано: 29.07.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Kabbalah Advocates Bring Message to Moscow

Madonna's red-string bracelets and rumors of Britney Spears' Kabbalah-themed tattoos have brought the word "Kabbalah" into the hipster lexicon. But for those who have devoted their lives to this form of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah goes far deeper...

Опубликовано: 27.07.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Romanov Remains Returned to Russia

The remains of a sister-on-law of the last Russian tsar, Nicolas II, have been taken from their resting place in Jerusalem back to Russia. They will be displayed in Moscow before being exhibited in other parts of the...

Опубликовано: 26.07.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Tears For Slain Editor

July 17, 2004 -- Family and friends of murdered Russian Forbes Editor Paul Klebnikov met for his funeral yesterday in Manhattan — saying dos vidanya to a son of the city who grew up to be "the pride...

Опубликовано: 17.07.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: China seeks influence among Kalmyk Buddhists

"Broad prospects for various cooperation".A move by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to repel the influence of the Dalai Lama in a Tibetan Buddhist region has become apparent during the visit to Kalmykia, in the Russian Federation,...

Опубликовано: 17.07.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: "It Is the Moment of Truth for Russia"

The older brothers of Paul Klebnikov, the Forbes Russia editor who was shot dead in the street outside his office last week, challenged the government on Wednesday to solve the murder and show that Russia is becoming a...

Опубликовано: 15.07.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Monk Spearheads Buddhist Revival in Buryatia

AGINSKOYE -- Vladimir Chimitdorzhiyev was once an ardent communist who wanted to lead young people in Siberia to a Soviet paradise. "That was a long time ago. All that is water under the bridge now," he said in...

Опубликовано: 13.07.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: China behind attack: Falun Dafa

SHOOTING: The head of the Taiwanese branch of the organization said the Chinese government was extending its violent repression to foreign soil The Chinese government was behind an attack on nine Falun Gong practitioners in South Africa last...

Опубликовано: 07.07.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Dmitry Dudko, 82; Priest, Critic of Soviet Atheism

Russian Orthodox priest Dmitry Dudko, an outspoken critic of Soviet atheism who spent eight years in a Siberian labor camp in the 1950s, died Monday in Moscow, the Moscow Patriarchate announced. He was 82."Father Dudko was a leader...

Опубликовано: 04.07.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Dmitry Dudko, at 82; Russian Orthodox priest

MOSCOW -- The Rev. Dmitry Dudko, an Orthodox priest who fought against Soviet atheism and served time in a Stalin-era camp, died Monday in Moscow, the Moscow Patriarchate said yesterday.Father Dudko became a mentor for many of the...

Опубликовано: 04.07.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Chaplaincy Provides Haven for Latin Students

Last November, two students from Guinea-Bissau, Halder, 24, and Mario, 27, arrived in Moscow to pursue degrees at the People's Friendship University. Two days later, they were dead, caught in a blaze that ripped through dormitories at the...

Опубликовано: 30.06.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Symbolism of the Orthodox Monastery in "The walk of Agapius to Paradise"

The Byzantine apocryphal story about the walk of Agapius to paradise is present in ancient Russian manuscripts in different text versions. Two versions of the story have been translated to modern Russian (V.V.Milkov, Ancient Russian Apocrypha, SPb, 1999);...

Опубликовано: 23.06.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Icon, spirited away in 1949, returning to Russia

The Gospel writer and early apostle Luke is believed to have painted it. For centuries, it was considered the source of miracles, protecting Russia from foreign invaders. It survived looting by the Soviets and the Nazis. And now,...

Опубликовано: 19.06.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow bans Jehovah's Witnesses

MOSCOW — Reflecting increased pressure on religious minorities in a country dominated by the Russian Orthodox Church, a Moscow court Wednesday upheld a ban on activities by the Jehovah's Witnesses in the capital.The ruling by the Moscow City...

Опубликовано: 17.06.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Human rights museum head tried on charges of inciting religious hatred

MOSCOW (AP) -- In a case reminiscent of Soviet-era crackdowns on avant-garde art, a human rights advocate and two associates went on trial Tuesday on charges of inciting religious hatred with a museum exhibit that angered the Russian...

Опубликовано: 15.06.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Times: Brother's Keeper

Fresh from his wins at a Russian Orthodox film festival, Serbian director Ninoslav Randjelovic talks with Alexander Osipovich about his one-man crusade against ethnic violence in Kosovo. The camera zooms in on a dark-haired little girl. As she...

Опубликовано: 14.06.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Christian Science Monitor: Kosovo's Religious Tables Turned

FISHERSVILLE, VA. – Six years ago the US launched a noble experiment, becoming the first nation to proclaim international religious freedom as a goal of its foreign policy. Unfortunately, that experiment has been poisoned by interest-group politics. Usually...

Опубликовано: 23.05.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Patriarch Alexy, Metropolitan Laurus begin building new church

About 10,000 Orthodox Christians gathered for a Divine Liturgy service conducted by Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II at Moscow's Butovo range early on Saturday, May 15, "Interfax" reports. About 30,000 people, mainly Muscovites, were executed...

Опубликовано: 17.05.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Watch Out, Art!

A new intolerance is sweeping Russia as religious and political fundamentalists attack artists, musicians and writers whose works they view as subversive May 17 issue - It wasn't the first time critics took clubs to art they didn't...

Опубликовано: 15.05.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: High Passions

Normally critical of the Catholic artistic tradition, Orthodox Christians have found much to admire in Mel Gibson's controversial new film. Leaving Moscow's Orthodox churches last Maundy Thursday after the morning service commemorating the Last Supper, one could overhear...

Опубликовано: 17.04.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Religious Repression

Editor,I marvel at Lawrence Uzzell's misrepresentations of Jehovah's Witnesses in his otherwise sympathetic article regarding the Moscow court decision banning their activities.The Trinity is not a "core" Christian doctrine. It is not in the Bible, and many people...

Опубликовано: 08.04.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Witnessing Religious Repression. By Lawrence A. Uzzell

The recent Moscow court decision is significant for three reasons. First, it goes beyond previous repressive steps such as denying official registration to a religious organization. Without registration a religious body has no corporate right to rent buildings...

Опубликовано: 08.04.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Krishna temple plans spark squabble

‘‘It will be able to welcome 2,000 believers on festivals,’’ said the former biochemist who prefers to be called B.S. Goswami, the spiritual name that he took after joining the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. In January, orthodox...

Опубликовано: 01.04.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Row over Krishna temple in Moscow

Plans to construct a Hare Krishna temple in Moscow have sparked off a controversy in Russia where the Orthodox Church dominates and many regard Krishna followers as dangerous sectarians.

Опубликовано: 01.04.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Orthodox Church Hails Court Decision To Ban Jehovah's Witnesses Sect In Moscow

According to The New York Times, the Jehovah's Witnesses sect has a 133,000-strong congregation in Russia. Orthodox Church officials believe this to be an overstatement, but they acknowledge that the sect is influential enough in many regions across...

Опубликовано: 30.03.2004