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Keston News Service Articles 2001   (choose a year)

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27.12.2001 - MOLDOVA/TRANSDNIESTER: Christmas Demolition Threat for Baptist Church Not Yet Carried Out.

27.12.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Christmas Eviction of Adventist.

21.12.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Elderly Blind Woman Threatened with Eviction.

21.12.2001 - AZERBAIJAN: Eight-Month Ban on Baptist Services Overridden.

21.12.2001 - ROMANIA: Orthodox Destroy Former Greek Catholic Church.

18.12.2001 - CENTRAL ASIA SPECIAL REPORT: Former Islamic Fighter Recounts Life in Training Camp.

17.12.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: No Public Consultation On Religion Bill.

17.12.2001 - YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO: How Should Orthodox Respond to Media 'Libels'?

17.12.2001 - A LETTER FROM KESTON'S DIRECTOR

14.12.2001 - MOLDOVA: Government To Contest Strasbourg Ruling In Favour Of Bessarabian Church.

13.12.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Baptist Fined For Rejecting Church Registration.

13.12.2001 - MACEDONIA: Was Fire At Bitola Mosque Also Arson?

12.12.2001 - AZERBAIJAN SPECIAL REPORT: Religious Groups Cautious Over Reregistration Promises.

12.12.2001 - UZBEKISTAN SPECIAL REPORT: How Strong Is The Islamic Opposition?

11.12.2001 - MACEDONIA: Was Church Fire Arson?

7.12.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Adventists Detained At Prayer Meeting.

7.12.2001 - RUSSIA: 'American Neo-Pentecostal Sect' Barred From Building in Moscow.

6.12.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Ramadan Appeal For Mosque Reopening Rejected.

6.12.2001 - RUSSIA: Salvation Army Must Cease Its Activities in Moscow.

6.12.2001 - RUSSIA: Challenge to Regional Missionary Law Fails.

6.12.2001 - KYRGYZSTAN: 'Unlawful' Ban on Amplified Call To Prayer.

5.12.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Reprisals Restart Against Protestants.

5.12.2001 - RUSSIA: Minister for Religion?

4.12.2001 - MOLDOVA/TRANSDNIESTER: Second Baptist Church Threatened With Demolition.

4.12.2001 - RUSSIA: Majority of Proposed Amendments 'Against Constitution'.

4.12.2001 - RUSSIA: 300 Amendments to Religion Law Under Consideration.

29.11.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Situation Eases For Punished Protestants.

27.11.2001 - SERBIA-KOSOVO: Orthodox Pessimistic About Future of Church Life.

27.11.2001 - SERBIA-KOSOVO: Are Orthodox Sites Sufficiently Guarded?

26.11.2001 - SERBIA-KOSOVO SPECIAL REPORT: Protection of Orthodox Heritage In Doubt.

26.11.2001 - SERBIA-KOSOVO: Secularisation of Society Under UN Authorities.

26.11.2001 - SERBIA-KOSOVO: UN Authorities Failing to Assist Islamic Community?

23.11.2001 - TAJIKISTAN: Crackdown on Dushanbe's Unregistered Mosques.

22.11.2001 - MOLDOVA/TRANSDNIESTER: Police Close Baptist Meeting With Orthodox Help?

22.11.2001 - MOLDOVA/TRANSDNIESTER: Christmas Demolition For Baptist Church?

22.11.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Further Fall-Out From Protestant Church Raid.

20.11.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Court Victory, But Registration No Nearer.

19.11.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Three Deported After Protestant Church Raid.

16.11.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Baptist Released From Psychiatric Hospital.

16.11.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Protestants Fined Thousands of Dollars.

15.11.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Forty Detained At Protestant Meeting.

14.11.2001 - ARMENIA: Charismatic Pastor Freed But Case Continues.

14.11.2001 - CHINA: Government Prevents Orthodox Parishes from Having Priests.

13.11.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Beaten Baptist Sent to Psychiatric Hospital.

12.11.2001 - KOSOVO - SERBIA: Chapel Blown Up, Tombstones Damaged.

12.11.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Baptist Beaten But Police Deny It.

12.11.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Five-Day Prison Spell For Baptist Pastor.

9.11.2001 - A SPECIAL REQUEST TO KESTON'S FRIENDS.

9.11.2001 - KYRGYZSTAN: Protestant Converts Pressured to Renounce New Faith.

8.11.2001 - SPECIAL REPORT: AFGHANISTAN:What Impact will Fighting Have on Uzbekistan?

6.11.2001 - SPECIAL REPORT: TURKMENISTAN: 'Every Believer is Controlled' Says Former Foreign Minister.

2.11.2001 - SPECIAL REPORT: AFGHANISTAN: Radical Islam in Northern Alliance Territory.

1.11.2001 - RUSSIA: Moscow Jehovah's Witness Trial Resumes.

1.11.2001 - SERBIA: Further Attacks On Pentecostals.

31.10.2001 - SLOVAKIA: Are the Christian Fellowships Dangerous?

31.10.2001 - SLOVAKIA: Protestant Fellowship to Be Deregistered?

25.10.2001 - UKRAINE: Stalemate Over Kharkiv's Greek Catholic Church.

24.10.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Delayed Baptist Deportations Imminent?

23.10.2001 - TAJIKISTAN: Evangelical Church Fears Losing Registration.

23.10.2001 - TAJIKISTAN: All-Out Campaign Against Christian Activity in Southern Region.

18.10.2001 - RUSSIA: Draconian Local Missionary Law to Be Repealed?

17.10.2001 - TAJIKISTAN: Muslim Mayor Refuses to Register Protestant Church.

16.10.2001 - LITHUANIA: Catholic Candidate Is New Religious Adviser.

16.10.2001 - BELARUS: Pastor's Joy At Court Ruling.

12.10.2001 - SERBIA: Low Religious Education Enrolment Sparks Accusations.

11.10.2001 - ARMENIA: Prosecutors Pursue Case Against Acquitted Jehovah's Witness.

11.10.2001 - GEORGIA: Major Confessions Gave Advance Consent to Concordat.

11.10.2001 - GEORGIA: Patriarchate Resists Construction and Restitution Of Catholic Churches.

10.10.2001 - TAJIKISTAN: Islamic Party 'Does Not Oppose' Action Against 'Genuine' Terrorists.

10.10.2001 - CENTRAL ASIA: SPECIAL REPORT: Likely Responses to Afghanistan Raids.

05.10.2001 - RUSSIA: Salvation Army To Appeal Against Liquidation Ruling.

04.10.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Jehovah's Witness Family Lose Supreme Court Appeal.

02.10.2001 - ROMANIA: Prefect Changes Property Restitution Criteria.

02.10.2001 - GEORGIA: Patriarchate Veto On Alternative Orthodox Construction.

02.10.2001 - GEORGIA: Patriarchate Monopoly On State Religious Education.

01.10.2001 - LITHUANIA: Who Should Advise Government On Religion?

01.10.2001 - LITHUANIA: Will Catholic Candidate for Religious Advisor Be Chosen?

27.09.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Child Deaths to be Pinned On Adventists?

27.09.2001 - ARMENIA: Will Apostolic Church Get Concordat?

26.09.2001 - GEORGIA: OSCE Condemns Attackers' Impunity.

26.09.2001 - GEORGIA: Rebel Orthodox Priest Attacks Pentecostal Choir.

26.09.2001 - KYRGYZSTAN SPECIAL REPORT: Muslim Responses to Attacks on USA.

25.09.2001 - SERBIA: No Dialogue on Religion Law?

24.09.2001 - KYRGYZSTAN: Petition for Ousted Imam.

24.09.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: State Security Officer Accuses Baptist of Forgery.

20.09.2001 - RUSSIA: Salvation Army Appeal Delayed.

19.09.2001 - ARMENIA: Jehovah's Witnesses Hail 'Great Victory'.

18.09.2001 - ARMENIA: Conscientious Objector Sentenced As Others Freed.

17.09.2001 - ARMENIA: Charismatic Pastor On Remand.

17.09.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Religious Liberty Picture Ahead of Pope's Visit.

14.09.2001 - ESTONIA: Controversial Religion Law to Return to Parliament.

13.09.2001 - RUSSIA: Salvation Army Takes Its Case to Strasbourg.

13.09.2001 - RUSSIA: Moscow Salvation Army Loses Liquidation Case.

11.09.2001 - ARMENIA: Verdict Next Week in Jehovah's Witness Trial.

11.09.2001 - RUSSIA: 'I Was Set Up' Claims Protestant Lawyer.

10.09.2001 - RUSSIA: No Religious Policy Document After All?

10.09.2001 - RUSSIA: Draft Religious Policy Revised Again.

10.09.2001 - RUSSIA: Kremlin Doesn't Trust Orthodox Leadership, Says Top Official.

07.09.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: SPECIAL REPORT: Abuse of Religion Law.

06.09.2001 - ESTONIA: No Visa Ban For Russian Priests.

04.09.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Further Raid On Greater Grace Meeting.

30.08.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Elderly Muslims Suffer As Kokand Mosque Closes.

29.08.2001 - RUSSIA: Protestants Not Welcome in Udmurtia?

29.08.2001 - RUSSIA: US Volunteer Missionary Deported.

23.08.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: 'The Fewer Churches We Have, the Fewer the Problems'?

22.08.2001 - MACEDONIA: Church in Lesok Blown Up.

21.08.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Six Arrested For Alleged 'Wahhabism'.

18.08.2001 - RUSSIA: Baptist Evangelical Campaigns Broken Up.

17.08.2001 - UKRAINE - CRIMEA: Return of Religious Buildings to Karaites Expected.

17.08.2001 - RUSSIA: Are Jehovah's Witnesses Terrorist Targets?

16.08.2001 - KYRGYZSTAN: Regional Government Replaces Imam.

16.08.2001 - KYRGYZSTAN: Police Illegally Harass Bahais.

15.08.2001 - MACEDONIA: Destruction and Abuse of Religious Sites.

15.08.2001 - MACEDONIA: Macedonian Orthodox Church Remains in Constitution.

13.08.2001 - UKRAINE - CRIMEA: Conflict Over the Fate Of the Madrassah.

08.08.2001 - UKRAINE: Draft Law to Increase State Control Over Religious Organisations.

08.08.2001 - UKRAINE: New Registration Requirements - Who Benefits?

06.08.2001 - ARMENIA: Jehovah's Witness Trial Adjourned.

01.08.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Jehovah's Witness Family Lodges Last-Ditch Appeal Against Eviction.

30.07.2001 - SERBIA: 'Intolerance' Obstructs Activity of Vishnu Community.

30.07.2001 - SERBIA: Vishnu Community Denied Right to Reply.

30.07.2001 - BELARUS: Pastor Banned From Religious Activity.

26.07.2001 - ARMENIA: Key Trial Witness Arrested.

25.07.2001 - UKRAINE: State Commission to Keep Foreigners Out?

25.07.2001 - UKRAINE: Breakthrough For Orthodox Unification?

24.07.2001 - RUSSIA: Rival Jewish Organisations Battle for Supremacy.

24.07.2001 - RUSSIA: Total Eclipse of Soviet-Era Chief Rabbi.

23.07.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Criminal Charges Against Baptist Pastor Dropped: Administrative Charges Remain.

23.07.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Pregnant Mother To Be Deported.

23.07.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Atakov Back in Turkmenbashi Prison.

20.07.2001 - SERBIA: Minorities Unhappy Over Draft Religion Law.

19.07.2001 - UKRAINE: Muslims Protest Against 'Secret' Property Decision.

16.07.2001 - TAJIKISTAN: Two Sentenced to Death for Church Bombing.

16.07.2001 - UKRAINE: A Year Without Progress Over Simferopol Mosque.

16.07.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Baptists Threatened Not to Go to Court.

13.07.2001 - LITHUANIA: Baptists Achieve Recognised Status.

12.07.2001 - RUSSIA: Third Draft Religious Policy?

11.07.2001 - GEORGIA: Will Presidential Meeting End Religious Violence?

11.07.2001 - GEORGIA: Religious Leaders Meet Shevardnadze.

11.07.2001 - LITHUANIA: Property Confiscation - Lutherans and Municipality to Appeal.

10.07.2001 - ARMENIA: 'Khrushchevite' Charge Against Medzamor Jehovah's Witness.

09.07.2001 - RUSSIA: Salvation Army Liquidation Hearing Adjourned.

09.07.2001 - UKRAINE: Orthodox Brotherhood Denied Registration.

06.07.2001 - UKRAINE: No Building Yet for Kharkiv's Greek Catholics.

06.07.2001 - UKRAINE: Still No Return of Sevastopol Catholic Church.

05.07.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Baptist Pastor Faces Eight-Year Sentence.

05.07.2001 - RUSSIA: Monday Hearing for Moscow Salvation Army.

05.07.2001 - RUSSIA - SPECIAL REPORT: Regional Justice Departments Largely Follow Ministry's Benign Reregistration Policy.

04.07.2001 - BELARUS: Cases Against Christian Paper Editor and Distributors Dropped.

04.07.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Conscripted Baptist Refuses to Take Military Oath.

29.06.2001 - ESTONIA: President Refuses to Sign Controversial Religion Law.

29.06.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Charges Dropped Against Nine Baptists.

28.06.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Families to Finance Baptists' Deportation?

28.06.2001 - ESTONIA: Will New Law Deny Legal Status to Foreign-Led Faiths?

27.06.2001 - RUSSIA: Draft Policy Authors to be Rivals Or Partners?

27.06.2001 - RUSSIA: Draft Religious Policy Revised.

27.06.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Baptist Pastor Threatened with Five-Year Sentence.

26.06.2001 - UKRAINE: Why Are Yalta's Greek Catholics Still Waiting for Land?

22.06.2001 - LITHUANIA: Justice Ministry Recommends Extending Rights of 'Recognised Faiths'.

22.06.2001 - LITHUANIA: 'Bats More Important than Baptists'.

20.06.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Bibles Banned from Book Trade?

19.06.2001 - BOSNIA: Ferhadija Mosque Reconstruction Started.

15.06.2001 - RUSSIA: Moscow Jehovah's Witnesses Go Back to Court Again.

15.06.2001 - YUGOSLAVIA: Attacks on Belgrade Muslim Community Intensified.

14.06.2001 - RUSSIA: Will Local Religion Laws be Revoked?

14.06.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Protestants Threatened with Property Confiscation.

14.06.2001 - RUSSIA: Support Expressed for Restrictive Draft Religious Policy.

13.06.2001 - RUSSIA: RASS Draft Religious Policy Emphasises Secular State.

13.06.2001 - RUSSIA: Two Draft Religious Policies Published.

12.06.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Campaign Against Religious Meetings in Private Homes?

08.06.2001 - China and Turkmenistan Fail to Sponsor UN Religious Sites Resolution.

07.06.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: New Deadline for Conscripted Baptist.

04.06.2001 - YUGOSLAVIA: Federal Religion Law 'On Hold'.

04.06.2001 - SERBIA: New Religion Bill Imminent.

04.06.2001 - LITHUANIA: Pentecostals Watch Parliament's Ruling on Baptists.

31.05.2001 - CHINA: Official Press Confirms Wenzhou Destruction Campaign.

31.05.2001 - RUSSIA: Kabardino-Balkaria Outlaws Religious Extremism.

31.05.2001 - RUSSIA: Impact of Belgorod's Anti-Missionary Law.

31.05.2001 - RUSSIA: Belgorod's New Anti-Missionary Law.

30.05.2001 - RUSSIA: Belgorod Catholics Finally to Receive Registration?

24.05.2001 - LITHUANIA: Controversy Surrounds Four-Tier Religious Status.

24.05.2001 - LITHUANIA: Unrecognised Even After 150 Years?

24.05.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Threat to Baptist Sunday Schools.

24.05.2001 - TAJIKISTAN: Renewed Attempt to Suppress Baptist Church.

18.05.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Baptist Tortured.

16.05.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Wider Plan to Suppress Unregistered Groups?

16.05.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Prosecutor Issues Illegal Ban on Baptist Church.

14.05.2001 - YUGOSLAVIA: Romani Evangelicals Ordered to Pull Down Tent Church.

14.05.2001 - RUSSIA: Chief Architect Blocks Protestants from Using Own Church.

14.05.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Atakov Pressured to Emigrate.

11.05.2001 - RUSSIA: Mosque Demolition Case to Supreme Court?

11.05.2001 - SERBIA: KOSOVO: Orthodox Church Stoned and Burgled.

10.05.2001 - RUSSIA: What Will Putin's Religious Policy Be?

10.05.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Secret Police Raid Baptist Service and Ban Pastor From Leading Worship.

10.05.2001 - RUSSIA: Successor Organ to Council for Religious Affairs Imminent?

09.05.2001 - BOSNIA: First Synagogue Since 1945 to be Built.

08.05.2001 - BOSNIA: Who Was Behind the Anti-Mosque Riots?

08.05.2001 - BOSNIA: Violent Riots at Future Mosque Sites.

08.05.2001 - UKRAINE: Moscow Patriarchate Fears Expulsion but Authorities Deny It.

08.05.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Russian Protestant Was Deported.

04.05.2001 - RUSSIA: Orthodox Veto on Kolomna Mosque Construction?

03.05.2001 - BELARUS: Christian Paper Editor and Distributors Due in Court.

01.05.2001 - RUSSIA: Kabardino-Balkaria Rejects Jehovah's Witness Registration.

01.05.2001 - RUSSIA: Karelian Authorities Alarmed by Growth of Islam.

30.04.2001 - AZERBAIJAN: Baku Lutherans Out on the Street.

27.04.2001 - LITHUANIA: Lutherans Protest Property Confiscation in Vilnius.

27.04.2001 - RUSSIA: Pentecostal Freed, but Awaits New Trial.

24.04.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Two-Month Prison 'Quarantine' for Atakov.

24.04.2001 - BELARUS: New Religion Law Postponed until September.

23.04.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Russian Protestant Freed after Four Days.

19.04.2001 - RUSSIA: Christian Conscientious Objector Imprisoned.

18.04.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Women Protest Hizb-ut-Tahrir Arrests.

18.04.2001 - RUSSIA - SPECIAL REPORT: Religious Freedom Under Putin - One Year On.

17.04.2001 - RUSSIA: Russian Orthodox Church Abroad's Struggle for Church Property.

17.04.2001 - RUSSIA: Russian Orthodox Church Abroad's Uphill Struggle for Registration.

17.04.2001 - RUSSIA: Regional and Village Decrees Halt Pentecostal Mission.

17.04.2001 - RUSSIA: Pentecostal Church Liquidated in Far East.

12.04.2001 - UKRAINE - CRIMEA: Catholics Denied Easter Celebration in Own Church.

12.04.2001 - RUSSIA: Moscow Pentecostals Evicted from Theatre.

12.04.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Pentecostal Pastor Loses Appeal against Church Confiscation.

11.04.2001 - RUSSIA: Re-registration: Muslim Organisations Officially Liquidated; Jehovah's Witnesses Appeal.

10.04.2001 - RUSSIA: Taganrog Muslims Told to Demolish Mosque.

09.04.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: No Progress on Reopening Adventist Seminary.

09.04.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: 'Catch-22' for Tashkent's Protestant Church.

09.04.2001 - BOSNIA: Banja Luka's Ferhadija Mosque to be Rebuilt First.

06.04.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Jehovah's Witness Registrations Obstructed.

06.04.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Jehovah's Witnesses Criticise Conscientious Objector Trials.

06.04.2001 - BELARUS: Deadline Looms over Juridical Address Changes.

06.04.2001 - BELARUS: Juridical Address Difficulties Obstruct Jewish Registration.

05.04.2001 - RUSSIA: What is the Orthodox Church's Position on Religious Freedom?

04.04.2001 - CROATIA: 'Historical' Faiths Favoured in Draft Religion Law.

04.04.2001 - GEORGIA: Minorities Concerned over Orthodox Concordat.

03.04.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: What's Wrong with Religious Charities?

03.04.2001 - GEORGIA: Parliamentary Condemnation of Religious Violence 'Ignored'.

02.04.2001 - RUSSIA: Re-registration Figures for Religious Organisations.

30.03.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Zoroastrians and Old Believers Without Registration.

30.03.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Charges Follow Baptist Missionary Activity.

30.03.2001 - RUSSIA: Krasnodar Protestants Propose Inter-Confessional Union.

30.03.2001 - RUSSIA: Further Foot-Dragging over Krasnodar Book Confiscation.

29.03.2001 - GEORGIA: Violence Continues Despite Case Against Perpetrators.

28.03.2001 - KYRGYZSTAN: Women Protest Hizb-Ut-Tahrir Leaflet Arrests.

28.03.2001 - GEORGIA: Pentecostals Latest Victims of Violence.

27.03.2001 - UZBEKISTAN SPECIAL REPORT: Pervasive State Control of Religious Literature.

27.03.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Atakov Transferred to Enclosed Prison.

26.03.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Baptist Church Told to Halt Work with Children.

26.03.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Four Baptist Churches face Registration Obstruction.

26.03.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Atakov's Family Pressured to Convert to Islam.

23.03.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Catholic Concert First Victim of New Decree?

23.03.2001 - GEORGIA: Will Action Against Rebel Priest Halt Violence?

23.03.01 - KAZAKHSTAN: Draft Religion Law to be Revised?

23.03.01 - UZBEKISTAN: Threat to Foreign Religious Leaders?

23.03.01 - RUSSIA: Putin's Decree extends Powers of Presidential Religious Committee.

23.03.01 - RUSSIA: Radical Overhaul of Presidential Religious Committee.

22.03.2001 - UZBEKISTAN: Greater Grace Church Waits in Vain for Registration.

21.03.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Atakov Returned to Prison-Camp, Sent to Punishment Cell.

20.03.2001 - RUSSIA: Religious-Political Parties to be Banned?

20.03.2001 - YUGOSLAVIA: Army Plans to Introduce Chaplaincy.

19.03.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Week-long Detention of Krishna Devotees.

19.03.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Authorities Resettle Family in Closed Baptist Church.

19.03.2001 - RUSSIA: Duma Investigates Measures to 'Prevent the Spread of Catholicism'.

19.03.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Protestants Beaten, Flats Confiscated.

15.03.2001 - RUSSIA: Attempt to Toughen 1997 Law on Religion.

15.03.2001 - GEORGIA: Attack on Central Baptist Church.

15.03.2001 - POLAND: Anti-Sect Policy to Change After Complaints from Churches.

14.03.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Court Rules Again for Confiscation of Pentecostal Church.

14.03.2001 - GEORGIA: Drunken Mob Attacks Bible Society Workers.

12.03.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Atakov to Spend 39th Birthday in Prison?

09.03.2001 - GEORGIA: Parish Denied Building Permission.

09.03.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: 'Unregistered Groups by Definition have no Followers.'

07.03.2001 - BELARUS: US Rejects Charges of 'Fanning Inter-religious Conflict'.

06.03.2001 - RUSSIA: Lawyers Challenge Threatened Expulsion of Ghanaian Pastor.

05.03.2001 - RUSSIA: Senior Catholic Priest Refused Visa for Third Time.

02.03.2001 - RUSSIA: Senior Catholic Priest Refused Visa for Third Time.

01.03.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Pentecostal Church Confiscation Case Postponed.

28.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Pentecostal Church Confiscation Case Postponed.

28.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Hearing in Pentecostal Church Confiscation Case set for 1 March.

27.02.2001 - ROMANIA: Restrictive Religion Bill Revived.

27.02.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Anti-Religion Drive in Almaty School.

27.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Authorities Deny Atakov has been Tortured.

26.02.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Reinstated Council for Religious Affairs to promote Confessions loyal to the State?

26.02.2001 - RUSSIA: Salvation Army Receives Status of 'Centralised Religious Organisation'.

26.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Baptist Protests about KNB Raid.

26.02.2001 - GEORGIA: Supreme Court's Liquidation of Jehovah's Witnesses Condemned.

23.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Russia Refuses to Accept Deported Jehovah's Witness.

23.02.2001 - RUSSIA: Jehovah's Witnesses Win Moscow Court Case.

23.02.2001 - KYRGYZSTAN: Deadlock over Registration of Catholic Parish.

22.02.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Restrictions on Missionary Activity Hamper Hare Krishnas

22.02.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Hare Krishnas Encounter Increased Police Harassment.

22.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Update on Protestant Church Raid.

22.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Authorities Seal Last Open Baptist Church.

21.02.2001 - RUSSIA: Will Independent Baptist Church be Liquidated?

21.02.2001 - KOSOVO - SERBIA: Destruction of Orthodox Graveyards Continues.

21.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: No Response to OSCE's Request to Visit Atakov.

20.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Seven Jehovah's Witnesses in Labour Camps for their Faith.

20.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Jehovah's Witness Serving Eight-Year Sentence for his Faith.

20.02.2001 - KYRGYZSTAN: Restrictive Provisions in New Religion Bill.

20.02.2001 - KYRGYZSTAN: Will New Law Increase Control over Religious Activity?

19.02.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Harsh Provisions in Draft Amendments to Religion Law.

19.02.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Tough New Amendments to Religion Law Proposed.

19.02.2001 - UKRAINE: Public Prosecutor Halts Pentecostals' Healing Ministry.

19.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Do the Detentions and Beatings Precede Deportation?

16.02.2001 - RUSSIA: Jehovah's Witnesses: Prosecutor Calls for Country-wide Ban.

13.02.2001 - YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO: One Church Destroyed, Attack on Second Fails.

13.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: OSCE Requests Permission to Visit Atakov.

12.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Protestant Questioned as Manhunt Continues.

12.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Yet Another Raid on a Protestant Church.

12.02.2001 - UKRAINE: Nuncio Vows Papal Visit will not be Postponed.

09.02.2001 - GEORGIA: Rebel Priest Enjoys Immunity.

09.02.2001 - GEORGIA: Rebel Priest's Victims.

08.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Atakov Being Treated with Psychotropic Drugs.

07.02.2001 - UKRAINE - CRIMEA: Lutherans Denied Rental of their Own Church.

06.02.2001 - ARMENIA: Council of Europe Obligations 'Ignored'.

06.02.2001 - ARMENIA: Alternative Service Law to be Adopted?

05.02.2001 - RUSSIA: Orthodox-Catholic Relations Take Turn For the Worse?

05.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Baptist Prisoner of Conscience Prepares for Death.

02.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Bible Study Group Raided by Police.

01.02.2001 - UKRAINE - CRIMEA: No Place for Greek Catholic Church in Sevastopol.

01.02.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Protestant Arrested as Nationwide Manhunt Continues.

31.01.2001 - HUNGARY: Minority Faiths Challenge 'Tax Discrimination'.

31.01.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Detention, then Deportation for Returning Baptist.

31.01.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Cautious Optimism Over Pentecostal Church Confiscation Case

30.01.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Pentecostal Church Confiscation Hearing Tomorrow

29.01.2001 - UKRAINE - CRIMEA: Sevastopol Catholics take Church Return Refusal to Strasbourg

29.01.2001 - RUSSIA: Greek Catholics - The Last Underground Church?

29.01.2001 - RUSSIA: In Moscow, some Armenian Christians are More Equal than Others

26.01.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Baptist Prisoner of Conscience Recovers from Heart Attack

25.01.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Protestant Church Told to Stop Meeting

24.01.2001 - RUSSIA: Muslim Communities First for Compulsory Liquidation

24.01.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Church Confiscation Appeal Postponed

22.01.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: No registration? No Book Distribution!

19.01.2001 - BELARUS: Pastor Charged with Speaking For `Non- Existent' Organisation.

18.01.2001 - TAJIKISTAN: No Results Yet From Church Bombing Investigations.

18.01.2001 - TAJIKISTAN: Were Latest Bombings Linked to Korean Church Attack?

17.01.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Appeal Date Set Over Pentecostal Church Confiscation.

16.01.2001 - KAZAKHSTAN: Education Ministry Withdraws Controversial Restrictions.

16.01.2001 - ARMENIA: No Progress for Jehovah's Witnesses Ahead of Council of Europe Vote.

15.01.2001 - YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO: KFOR Plan to Stop Guarding Orthodox Churches on Hold?

12.01.2001 - RUSSIA Factfile: Varied Picture After Re-registration Deadline.

11.01.2001 - RUSSIA: End in Sight for 18-Month Evangelical Book Confiscation.

09.01.2001 - RUSSIA: Orthodox Vow to Continue Anti-Pentecostal Picket.

05.01.2001 - YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO: Grenade Attack on Pristina's Last Active Orthodox Church

05.01.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Amnesty Fails to Free Religious Prisoners.

04.01.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Confiscation of Pentecostal Church Ordered.

03.01.2001 - RUSSIA: Last Minute Re-Registration for Kostroma Pentecostals.

02.01.2001 - AZERBAIJAN: Christmas Gagging Order for Lutheran Pastor.

02.01.2001 - TURKMENISTAN: Thursday Hearing Over Pentecostal Church Demolition.

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