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Keston News Service Articles 2002   (choose a year)

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31.10.2002 - BELARUS: Repressive Religion Law Gets President's Signature.

31.10.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: 'Mass Campaign' Against Jehovah's Witnesses?

30.10.2002 - LATVIA: Five Years and Five Attempts Bring Registration Victory.

29.10.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Being Protestant A Crime?

28.10.2002 - RUSSIA: Work in Progress on Draft Amendments to 1997 Law Leaked.

28.10.2002 - RUSSIA: Top Religious Affairs Official Promoted or Fired?

25.10.2002 - RUSSIA: Escalation in Missionary Expulsions.

24.10.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: No-Show Delays Jehovah's Witness Trial.

24.10.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Campaign Launched to Close Down Jehovah's Witnesses.

23.10.2002 - BELARUS: Repressive Religion Law Still Awaits President's Signature.

23.10.2002 - GEORGIA: Why Does Patriarch Need Immunity?

23.10.2002 - GEORGIA: Veto For Patriarchate Over All Church-Building and Religious Literature.

22.10.2002 - GEORGIA: Will Violent Priest At Last Be Brought to Justice?

21.10.2002 - RUSSIA: Salvation Army Precedent Saves Pacific Baptist Church.

21.10.2002 - TAJIKISTAN: Further Mass Closures of Mosques.

18.10.2002 - TAJIKISTAN: 'Political' Imams Sacked.

17.10.2002 - SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Russian Orthodox Expand Their Presence.

17.10.2002 - NORTH KOREA: Hoped-For Orthodox Church 'Will Be for Russians'.

15.10.2002 - GEORGIA: Mixed Reaction to Orthodox-State Concordat.

15.10.2002 - GEORGIA: Orthodox-State Concordat Signed.

15.10.2002 - BELARUS: U.S. Diplomats Barred from Bulldozed Church Site.

14.10.2002 - BELARUS: Further Massive Fine for Hindus.

11.10.2002 - BELARUS: What Hope for True Orthodox Parishes?

11.10.2002 - 'Religious Freedom', a talk given on BBC World Service by Keston's Head of Research, Dr Philip Walters.

10.10.2002 - TAJIKISTAN: Officials Deny Mosque Closures - Despite the Evidence.

09.10.2002 - BELARUS: Minsk Protestants Warned Home Religious Services are 'Illegal'.

09.10.2002 - BELARUS: Leaders of Unregistered Groups 'Will Be Fined'.

08.10.2002 - BELARUS: Pressure Mounts on President to Veto Repressive Religion Law.

04.10.2002 - RUSSIA: Five More U.S. Protestants Denied Entry.

02.10.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Were Pastor's Mysterious Visitors from Former KGB?

02.10.2002 - BELARUS: How Many Religious Communities Will Be Driven Underground?

02.10.2002 - BELARUS: Europe's Most Repressive Religion Law Goes for Final Signature.

02.10.2002 - BELARUS: Europe's Most Repressive Religion Law Adopted.

01.10.2002 - BELARUS: 'Traditional Faiths' v. The Rest Over Repressive Religion Law?

01.10.2002 - BELARUS: Europe's Most Repressive Religion Law Goes to Final Vote.

30.09.2002 - RUSSIA: Who's Afraid of Vologda's Catholics?

30.09.2002 - RUSSIA: Yaroslavl - Anti-Catholic Black Spot?

30.09.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: New Campaign Against Jehovah's Witnesses?

27.09.2002 - Russians and Catholics by Lawrence Uzzell, first printed in First Things (www.firstthings.com), October issue 2002

27.09.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Killers of Murdered Muslim to Escape Justice?

26.09.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Official Outlines Religious Censorship Procedure.

26.09.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Third Time Lucky for Stalled Book Import?

25.09.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - ARMENIA: Prime Minister Widens Council of Europe Defiance.

24.09.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: New Way of Criminalising Believers?

24.09.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Baptist Meeting Raided.

24.09.2002 - RUSSIA: Who Really Opposes Pskov Catholic Church?

24.09.2002 - RUSSIA: Construction of Pskov Catholic Church Resumes.

20.09.2002 - BELARUS: Victory for Religious Freedom Reporting or Happy Accident?

20.09.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Protestant Church Too Small to Register.

18.09.2002 - ARMENIA: Another Jehovah's Witness Imprisoned.

18.09.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Baptists Bear Brunt of Campaign Against Unregistered Communities.

17.09.2002 - RUSSIA: Previously Unpublicised Case Brings Number of Expelled Catholics to Seven.

17.09.2002 - UKRAINE: Why Do Security Police Question Catholic Priests?

16.09.2002 - RUSSIA: Putin-Pope Correspondence Inconclusive.

16.09.2002 - BELARUS: Are Autocephalous Orthodox Threatened with Job Loss?

13.09.2002 - RUSSIA: Authorities Silent as Buddhists Protest Dalai Lama Visa Denial.

13.09.2002 - TURKMENISTAN: Orthodox Church Journal Banned.

12.09.2002 - RUSSIA: Fifth Catholic Priest Denied Entry.

12.09.2002 - RUSSIA: Swedish Protestant is Latest Deportee.

11.09.2002 - RUSSIA: Another Two Catholic Priests Denied Entry.

10.09.2002 - BELARUS: One Quarter of Hindu Community in Prison.

10.09.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Pentecostal Church Faces Raid, Fines and Registration Denial.

09.09.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Jehovah's Witness Fears Imprisonment if he Returns Home.

05.09.2002 - RUSSIA: What Did Putin Tell the Pope About Banished Bishop?

04.09.2002 - TAJIKISTAN: 'Illegal' Ban on Home-Based Religious Meetings.

30.08.2002 - RUSSIA: Independent Baptist Church Not Liquidated.

29.08.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Guilty of Religious Activity - the Prosecution Case.

28.08.2002 - RUSSIA: Independent Baptist Church Faces Liquidation Hearing.

23.08.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Guilty of Religious Activity.

22.08.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Uzbeks 'Not Allowed to Have Bibles'?

21.08.2002 - RUSSIA: Dalai Lama Fails to Buck Trend After All.

19.08.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - RUSSIA: Religious Freedom For Sale?

12.08.2002 - SERBIA - KOSOVO: UNMIK Wrongfully Arrest 70-Year-Old Nun.

12.08.2002 - BELARUS: Krishna Community To Challenge Registration Denial.

09.08.2002 - RUSSIA: Another Catholic Priest And Now Protestants Also Denied Visas.

09.08.2002 - RUSSIA: Salvation Army Not Yet Liquidated and Battle Continues.

07.08.2002 - BELARUS: Moscow Patriarchate Priest Still Refuses To Say if he Blessed Church Destroyers.

07.08.2002 - BELARUS: Criminal Charges Against Autocephalous Priest?

07.08.2002 - RUSSIA: Independent Baptist Church Still Beleaguered.

06.08.2002 - UKRAINE: Authorities Halt 'Jews for Jesus' Mission.

05.08.2002 - RUSSIA: Dalai Lama Bucks Trend.

02.08.2002 - BELARUS: Independent Orthodox Church Bulldozed.

31.07.2002 - MOLDOVA: Police Question Muslim Leaders Over Summer Camp.

31.07.2002 - MOLDOVA: Bessarabian Orthodox Win Ten-Year Registration Battle.

30.07.2002 - Malign Intervention (published in the Moscow Times on 24 July 2002 and reprinted with permission)

29.07.2002 - BELARUS: Did Moscow Patriarchate Priest Bless Church Destroyers?

29.07.2002 - BELARUS: Authorities Try to Demolish Independent Orthodox Church.

29.07.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Baptist Deaf Church Closed Down Amid Fines.

26.07.2002 - BELARUS: Further Massive Fines for Hindu Park Meditation.

25.07.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - RUSSIA: Are Religious Organs Equal Before the Law?

25.07.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: When Can Deported Adventists Return?

24.07.2002 - TURKMENISTAN: Mother Condemns Renewed Sentence for Jehovah's Witness.

22.07.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Imprisoned Independent Muslim Refuses to Beg for Pardon.

22.07.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - RUSSIA: Evangelicals Resent Enforced Centralisation.

19.07.2002 - SERBIA - KOSOVO: Arson Attack After Monastery Liturgy.

18.07.2002 - TURKMENISTAN: Imam Joins Moves to Deport Baptists.

18.07.2002 - RUSSIA: Court Authorises Use of Secret Filming in Churches.

17.07.2002 - RUSSIA: Diverse Opposition to Measures Outlawing 'Religious Extremism'.

17.07.2002 - RUSSIA: Latvian-Based Pastor is Latest Visa Victim.

16.07.2002 - BELARUS: Massive Fines for Hindu Park Meditation.

16.07.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - RUSSIA: Mixed Fortunes for Mari-El's Protestants.

15.07.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Police Follow Pentecostal Church Members.

15.07.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Pentecostal Church 'Illegally' Barred from Visiting Prison.

12.07.2002 - GEORGIA: Religious Minorities Deplore Attack on Liberty Institute.

12.07.2002 - RUSSIA: Mari Paganism - Traditional Religion or Destructive Cult?

12.07.2002 - RUSSIA: Mari Paganism - Historical Confession Without Privileges.

11.07.2002 - LATVIA: Police Questioning sets 'Dangerous Precedent', Say Lutherans.

9.07.2002 - GEORGIA: Serious Concerns Over Draft Religion Law.

9.07.2002 - GEORGIA: Draft Religion Law Consultation.

8.07.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - UZBEKISTAN: Are Alleged Islamic Movement Lectures Authentic?

8.07.2002 - GEORGIA: Religious Minority Leader Condemn Religious Violence - Again.

8.07.2002 - GEORGIA: Orthodox Priests Lead 'Pogrom' Against Pentecostal Church and Catholic Pilgrims.

8.07.2002 - RUSSIA: Tatar Authorities Harness Islam.

8.07.2002 - RUSSIA: Islamic Extremism - Tatarstan's Phantom Menace?

5.07.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - RUSSIA: Vatican Demands Religious Freedom.

4.07.2002 - ESTONIA: Registration Transferred from Interior Ministry to Courts.

3.07.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Adventists Told to Get Out Before President Arrives.

3.07.2002 - RUSSIA: New Law Outlaws Religious Extremism.

2.07.2002 - SERBIA - KOSOVO: More Attacks on Orthodox Graveyards and Monasteries.

2.07.2002 - RUSSIA: Kryashen Break the Mould.

1.07.2002 - BELARUS: Repressive Religion Bill Put Back to Autumn Again.

1.07.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - KAZAKHSTAN: Restrictive Law Rejected, but 'Persecution' of Baptists Persists.

28.06.2002 - BELARUS: Repressive Religion Bill Sneaked Through Parliament.

27.06.2002 - MOLDOVA: Deadline Expires, But No Compensation for Bessarabian Church.

26.06.2002 - BELARUS: Restrictive Religion Bill Postponed.

26.06.2002 - Sects and the Church by Sergei Filatov and Lawrence Uzzell (in the Moscow Times of 5th June 2002). (Read on...)

25.06.2002 - BELARUS: Last-Ditch Attempt to Influence Religion Bill.

24.06.2002 - MOLDOVA: Muslims Challenge Denial of Registration in Strasbourg. 24.06.2002 - MOLDOVA: Moratorium on Registration of New Faiths.

21.06.2002 - MOLDOVA: Fined for Door-to-Door Preaching.

20.06.2002 - MOLDOVA: "Khruschevite Smell" from New Criminal Code Article.

20.06.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Officials Claim Religious Activity Without Permission is 'Unacceptable'.

19.06.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Former KGB Vetoes Jehovah's Witness Services.

19.06.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Jehovah's Witness Fined for 'Illegal' Teaching.

19.06.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: US Officials Dispute Azerbaijan Official's Claims.

17.06.2002 - BELARUS: Orthodox Given Preeminence in New Religion Bill.

17.06.2002 - BELARUS: Protestants Fast and Pray Against Religion Bill.

14.06.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: 'Lenient' Court Ruling for Protestant Pastor but Registration No Nearer.

13.06.2002 - KESTON NEWS SERVICE FACTFILE: SERBIA: Attacks on Religious Minorities in 2001.

12.06.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Baptists' Home and Washing-Machine Confiscated.

11.06.2002 - BELARUS: Baptists Fined for Singing Hymns.

11.06.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Court Orders Deportation of Krishna Devotees.

10.06.2002 - SERBIA - KOSOVO: Orthodox Reject Official's Denial of Anti-Orthodox Attacks.

10.06.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - RUSSIA: Mixed Fortunes for Tatar Protestants.

07.06.2002 - RUSSIA: Presidential Bill Outlawing Religious 'Extremist Activity' Passes First Reading.

07.06.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Christians Forced Underground in Muinak.

06.06.2002 - RUSSIA: Protestants Evicted from Rented Halls.

06.06.2002 - RUSSIA: Baptist Church to be Razed By Ring-Road.

06.06.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Harsh Measures Against Protestants in Karakalpakstan.

31.05.2002 - SERBIA - KOSOVO: Spate of Attacks Marred Orthodox Easter.

31.05.2002 - SERBIA - KOSOVO: Reconciliation with Orthodox As Attacks Continue.

31.05.2002 - MOLDOVA: Will Supreme Court Victory Help True Orthodox?

30.05.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Trial to Follow Raid On Protestant Church.

28.05.2002 - BELARUS: Religious Censorship And Compulsory Re-Registration Under the New Law?

28.05.2002 - BELARUS: Religion Law Goes to Parliament.

27.05.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Minority Faiths Banned From Preaching in Uzbek.

24.05.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - UZBEKISTAN: Government Backs Sufism to Counter Wahhabism.

21.05.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Will Jehovah's Witness Be Prosecuted?

20.05.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - BULGARIA: Religious Liberty Ahead of Papal Visit.

20.05.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - RUSSIA: Anti-Catholic Feeling On the Wane?

17.05.2002 - TURKMENISTAN: Protestants Forced to Renounce Their Faith.

16.05.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Krishna Devotees Threatened with Deportation.

16.05.2002 - Keston in the Washington Post. Russia's Growing Religious Repression.

09.05.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - AZERBAIJAN: Religious Liberty Before the Papal Visit.

08.05.2002 - BELARUS: Years On, Adventist Church Fires Remain Unexplained.

08.05.2002 - BELARUS: Catholics Believe Vandals Were Behind Church Arson.

04.05.2002 - Keston in The Tablet: The Bullying of Russia's Catholics.

01.05.2002 - BACKGROUND BRIEF: Religious Registration: Cutting Out the Opposition.

30.04.2002 - KYRGYZSTAN: Orthodox Stand By Objections to Draft Religion Law.

26.04.2002 - KESTON INSTITUTE PRESS RELEASE: Keston Survey of Religion in Russia Goes On Sale.

25.04.2002 - SLOVENIA: Why Can't Muslims Build Mosques?

25.04.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Five-Day Prison Term for Jehovah's Witnesses. 24.04.2002 - RUSSIA: Campaign Against Catholics?

24.04.2002 - RUSSIA: Why Was Catholic Bishop Expelled?

23.04.2002 - RUSSIA: Vatican Has 'No Immediate Plans' for St Petersburg Diocese.

23.04.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - UZBEKISTAN: Muslim Clergy Under State Control.

22.04.2002 - RUSSIA: Justice Department Seeks to Liquidate Magadan Catholic Parish.

22.04.2002 - RUSSIA: Orthodox Bishop Bars Catholic Church Construction?

22.04.2002 - RUSSIA: No Excuse for Stripping Catholic Bishop's Visa.

19.04.2002 - ARMENIA: 'Spirit of Khrushchev' to Persist in New Criminal Code?

19.04.2002 - ARMENIA: Prosecutors Fail in Attempt to Imprison Jehovah's Witness.

19.04.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Murdered Muslim Preacher's Widow Arrested.

18.04.2002 - ESTONIA: Moscow Orthodox Church Finally Registered.

17.04.2002 - ARMENIA: Prosecutors' Last-Ditch Attempt to Imprison Jehovah's Witness.

15.04.2002 - MOLDOVA: No Easy Registration for Bessarabian Church.

15.04.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN : Relief And Concern in Wake of Religion Law Ruling.

12.04.2002 - RUSSIA - SPECIAL REPORT: State Persecution or Protection of Suzdal's Breakaway Orthodox.

11.04.2002 - RUSSIA: Italian Catholic Priest Stripped of Visa.

10.04.2002 - MOLDOVA: Concern Over 'Disappeared' Church Activist.

10.04.2002 - MOLDOVA: Government Fails in Bessarabian Church Appeal.

10.04.2002 - RUSSIA: Will 'Experts' in Jehovah's Witness Case Be Neutral?

10.04.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: 'Overzealous' Police Try to Ban Baptist Service.

09.04.2002 - FACTFILE - AZERBAIJAN: 125 Religious Groups Reregistered.

08.04.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: OSCE 'Surprised' at Liquidation Of Baptist Church.

08.04.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Constitutional Council Deems Changes to Religion Law 'Unconstitutional'.

08.04.2002 - KYRGYZSTAN: New Charges Against Muslim Activist.

08.04.2002 - KYRGYZSTAN: Ahmadi Community Fears For Its Future.

05.04.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Protestant Deported.

03.04.2002 - RUSSIA: Three Draft Laws Affecting Religious Life Yet to Reach Parliament.

03.04.2002 - RUSSIA: Second Draft Law on Religious Extremism.

02.04.2002 - RUSSIA: Local Baptist Missionary Harassed.

02.04.2002 - RUSSIA: Work in Progress On Religion Laws Leaked.

01.04.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Police Order Deportation of Protestant.

28.03.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: And Then There Were Two.

28.03.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Turkish Imams'Agreement 'Nothing To Do With Muslim Board'.

27.03.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Government Behind Newspaper's 'Libel' Campaign?

27.03.2002 - KYRGYZSTAN: Authorities Confused By Hizb-ut-Tahrir Challenge.

25.03.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT: AZERBAIJAN: Believers Identify Religious Liberty Blackspots.

22.03.2002 - TURKMENISTAN: Six Jehovah's Witnesses in Labour Camps.

21.03.2002 - ARMENIA: Prosecutors Continue Case 'That Should Never Have Been Brought'.

20.03.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - AZERBAIJAN: The Rise And Rise of The State Religion Committee.

19.03.2002 - SERBIA: Catholic Office is Latest Target Of Attacks.

19.03.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: 'Don't Complain to Foreigners' Religion Chief Tells Believers.

18.03.2002 - TAJIKISTAN: Muslims Weep as 'Unapproved' Mosques Are Demolished.

18.03.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - CHINA/XINJIANG: Fresh Unrest 'Unlikely' After 'Cruel' Suppression of 1997 Uprising.

15.03.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT - AZERBAIJAN: Believers Object to Religious Censorship.

15.03.2002 - RUSSIA: Court Agrees That Baptist Church Breaks Up Families.

14.03.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT: AZERBAIJAN: Catholics Plead For End to Visa Problems.

13.03.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Why Do Teachers Ask Children About Their Faith?

13.03.2002 - CHINA/XINJIANG: Orthodox 'Lose Hope' of Own Church.

13.03.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT: AZERBAIJAN: Believers Unhappy Over State Committee's 'Illegal' Demands.

11.03.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: OSCE Planning Review of Religion Requirements.

11.03.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Widespread Opposition to Religious Reregistration.

08.03.2002 - SPECIAL REPORT: CHINA/XINJIANG: 'Foreigners Should Not Prevent Us from Praying' Say Local Muslims.

07.03.2002 - ARMENIA: Jehovah's Witnesses and OSCE Welcome Acquittal.

07.03.2002 - NAGORNO-KARABAKH: Officials Refuse to Discuss Baptist Deportation.

07.03.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Baptist Liquidation Hearing Postponed Again.

06.03.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Further Fines for Unregistered Baptists.

06.03.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Controversial Religion Law Sent to Constitutional Council.

04.03.2002 - RUSSIA: Landmark Constitutional Court Decision Vindicates Salvation Army.

28.02.2002 - Keston in the Wall Street Journal: The Vatican Gets Tough with Russia.

28.02.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Baptists Reject Religion Chief's 'Meddling'.

27.02.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Gyanja Police Close Adventist Church.

22.02.2002 - RUSSIA: Varied State Response to Orthodox-Catholic Rift.

22.02.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: President to Sign Religion Law 'Within Two Weeks'.

20.02.2002 - TAJIKISTAN: Islamic Party on Hizb-Ut-Tahrir, Islam and Foreign Troops.

20.02.2002 - YUGOSLAVIA/KOSOVO: Was Mitrovica Church Fire Arson?

18.02.2002 - UZBEKISTAN: Islamist Prisoners' Wives Protest Against Prison Terms.

15.02.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Baptist Arrested for Distributing Literature.

14.02.2002 - TURKMENISTAN: Drinking Tea To Lead To Internal Deportation?

14.02.2002 - RUSSIA: Mormons Say Missionary Expulsions 'Unfounded'.

13.02.2002 - GEORGIA: 'Sectarians Have To Be Shot Dead.'

13.02.2002 - KYRGYZSTAN: Baptist Conscientious Objector Threatened With Psychiatric Treatment?

12.02.2002 - RUSSIA: Government And Church At Odds Over Papal Visit.

12.02.2002 - RUSSIA - SPECIAL REPORT: Orthodox Indignant At Establishment of Catholic Dioceses.

11.02.2002 - Keston in the Wall Street Journal: Karimov's War on Islam Could Destablilise Central Asia.

08.02.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Unregistered Religious Groups 'Will Be Banned'.

08.02.2002 - KYRGYZSTAN: New Decree Set to Tighten Religious Controls.

07.01.2002 - GEORGIA: Intimidation Sabotages Trial of Violent Priest.

06.01.2002 - RUSSIA: Orthodox Church Attacks Government Moves to Amend Religion Law.

06.02.2002 - RUSSIA: Successor to Soviet-Era Council for Religious Affairs By The Back Door?

06.02.2002 - A LETTER FROM KESTON'S DIRECTOR

05.02.2002 - RUSSIA: Criticism of Anti-Religious Extremism Proposals.

05.02.2002 - RUSSIA: Proposed Ban on Religious 'Extremist Activity'.

05.02.2002 - RUSSIA: Opinion Divided Over Traditional Religious Organisation Status.

05.02.2002 - RUSSIA: Draft Law on 'Traditional Religious Organisations'.

04.02.2002 - GEORGIA: Postponed Trial of Violent Priest Imminent.

04.02.2002 - GEORGIA: Patriarchate Condemns Bible-Burning Priest.

01.02.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Controversial Religion Law Goes to President.

31.01.2002 - MOLDOVA-TRANSDNIESTER: Methodist Protests at Harassment.

29.01.2002 - FACTFILE: Religious Affairs Agencies.

29.01.2002 - MOLDOVA/TRANSDNIESTER: New Deadline for Baptist Church Demolition.

27.01.2002 - TURKMENISTAN: Shageldy Atakov 'Under Surveillance'.

24.01.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Baptist Liquidation Hearing Postponed.

23.01.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Is More Restrictive Religion Law Justified?

23.01.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: New Restrictive Religion Law Goes to Upper House.

23.01.2002 - TURKMENISTAN: Further Fines On Baptists.

22.01.2002 - KYRGYZSTAN: Muslim Rights Activist Detained.

21.01.2002 - RUSSIA: Salvation Army Victims of Unethical Practice?

21.01.2002 - RUSSIA: Local Authorities Restrict Gospel Dramatisation.

21.01.2002 - TURKMENISTAN: Chief Mufti Refuses to Discuss Presidential Madrassah Closures.

21.01.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Two-Week Prison Term for Pentecostal Leaders.

18.01.2002 - AZERBAIJAN: Baptist Pastor Vows to Fight Court Liquidation.

18.01.2002 - TURKMENISTAN: 'We Just Want Registration' Says Evicted Adventist.

18.01.2002 - TURKMENISTAN/UZBEKISTAN: Plea For Visa-Free Cross-Border Muslim Graveyard Visits.

17.01.2002 - RUSSIA: Mormon Registration in Tatarstan At A Stalemate.

17.01.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN SPECIAL REPORT: Is Chimkent A Hotbed of Islamic Radicalism?

17.01.2002 - RUSSIA: Mormon Registration in Tatarstan At A Stalemate.

16.01.2002 - BELARUS: Editor Defends Anti-Catholic Article.

16.01.2002 - BELARUS: Radio Chief Refuses to Explain Halt to Catholic Mass Broadcast.

14.01.2002 - KAZAKHSTAN: Did Security Police Kill Devout Muslim?

11.01.2002 - GEORGIA: 'Mkalavishvili Should Be Arrested At Once'.

11.01.2002 - GEORGIA: 'No Action' in Wake of Attack on Pentecostals.

10.01.2002 - TURKMENISTAN: Atakov Freed.

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