Commentators on Russian religious life are accustomed to dividing the religious communities of that country between those which are registered with the state and thus enjoy certain protections and those which are not registered and thus do not exist as legal entities.
But there is emerging what may prove to be an equally deep divide among [...]

The head of Russian baptists gave the interview about new amendments to the existing law of conscience and religious organizations.
- What amendments were proposed to the law of conscience?
- There was proposed an item, that a religious group, wanting to get a juridical status, should apply a notice about its activity not to [...]

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Since the time of its establishing (1992) Minsk Group (MG) of the OSCE founded for conduct of negotiation process on Nagornyi Karabakh settlement has been often criticized by NIS and Western countries for supposedly too mild and not very productive approach to solution of the problem. Nevertheless, in spite of absence of real results in [...]

This year members of Hebrew-speaking catholic congregations of Israel had the second three-day recollections. In these Yom Kippur prayers took part 24 members from different congregations from the whole Israel.
Last year, 13 members from the Haifa community travelled together to Kiryat Yearim during the period of Yom Kippur with the responsible of the [...]

Congresswoman LORETTA SANCHEZ SUPPORTS VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS ACT OF 2007
House of Representatives Overwhelmingly Passes H.R. 3096
Washington, D.C. — Today (Sept. 19-2007), Representative Loretta Sanchez joined the U.S. House of Representatives in supporting H.R. 3096, the Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2007 that passed with a House vote of 414 to 3. Yesterday, Sanchez delivered the [...]

In Belarus` western town of Baranovichi two local Baptists were fined about one month’s average wages each for using their home for religious worship. “They violated the Religion Law,” said ideology official Sergei Puzikov. Told that the two point to Belarus’ Constitution, which guarantees religious freedom, he responded: “In any country there is not [...]