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Forum 18

Type: Organization

Name: Forum 18

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Why were Hundreds of Religious Organizations in Russia Inspected?

According to a story by Geraldine Fagan of Forum 18 News Service, the inspections ranged from a simple telephone request for documents to numerous, extensive searches.It “wasn't simply the initiative of the Prosecutor,” Moscow-based lawyer Konstantin ... [Published Assist News Service - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Forum 18, Religion, Russia, Organism

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Kazakhstan: Christian Pastor Arrested for “Praying and Singing”

Authorities in Kazakhstan are again undermining religious freedom with the detention of a Protestant pastor and a Baptist leader on unrelated charges, a watchdog says.Pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev of Astana's Grace Church was detained May 19 on vague ... [Published EurasiaNet - May 21 2013]

Entities: Kazakhstan, Arrests, Forum 18

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

China: Tight State Controls on Religious Education

According to Magda Hornemann of Forum 18 News Service (www.forum18.org), for students beyond school age, only state-approved religious groups affiliated with China’s five state-backed monopoly faiths are allowed to apply to set up institutions for the ... [Published Assist News Service - May 20 2013]

Entities: Religion, Education, China

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Tony Abbott

Showing the courage to stand up to attacks

"The tough track of fighting back" (Forum, 18/5) by S. A. Jones was compelling and moving. Her actions in standing up to the man who verbally harassed a young Asian couple were courageous. As a "wog" who grew up in 1950s and 1960s Australia, I am all ... [Published Melbourne Age - May 19 2013]

Entities: Australia, Peter Craven, Tony Abbott, Forum 18

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

TURKMENISTAN: Lebap Region raids, confiscations, fines and public vilification

Two members of a Protestant community in a village in the eastern Lebap Region were fined more than two months' average local wages after police were informed that a church member was reading Christian literature at work, Protestants complained to Forum ... [Published Forum 18 - May 17 2013]

Entities: Forum 18, Religion, Turkmenistan

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

CHINA: Tight state controls on religious education

China does not allow religious communities to run schools for children, even though regulations do not forbid the provision of religious education to minors. Nor is religious education provided in state schools. For students beyond school age, only state-approved ... [Published Forum 18 - May 16 2013]

Entities: Religion, China, Education, Buddhism, Forum 18

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

AZERBAIJAN: Imam and driver in pre-trial detention, conscientious objector imprisoned

Imprisoned Jehovah's Witness conscientious objector Kamran Mirzayev is due to hear tomorrow (15 May) if his appeal has overturned his nine-month prison sentence, Jehovah's Witnesses told Forum 18 News Service. He is one of two known conscientious objectors ... [Published Forum 18 - May 14 2013]

Entities: Forum 18, Azerbaijan, Jehovah's Witnesses, Baku

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

KAZAKHSTAN: Why was Muslim prisoner of conscience extradited to Uzbekistan?

Kenes Zhusupov, Kazakh lawyer for Uzbek Muslim prisoner of conscience Khayrullo Tursunov, has told Forum 18 News Service that "I am outraged - Kazakhstan should have refused to extradite him". He commented that "the Uzbeks wanted him back as part of their ... [Published Forum 18 - May 09 2013]

Entities: Forum 18, Uzbekistan, Extradition, Kazakhstan, Torture

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

KAZAKHSTAN: Religious freedom to suffer in anti-extremist programme?

"Uncover and halt the activity of illegally functioning places of worship"; "Uncover and halt the distribution of religious literature and informational materials of religious content in non-approved locations"; "Uncover and halt the carrying out on the ... [Published Forum 18 - May 06 2013]

Entities: Religion, Forum 18, Kazakhstan, Religious Extremism

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Eurasia Review: Azerbaijan continues to restrict freedom of religion violating its international obligations

The State Committee for Work with Religious Organisations in Azerbaijan has announced that it will make a list of banned books public, but without giving a date for this, Felix Corley writes in the article published on an independent online newspaper ... [Published PANORAMA.am - May 03 2013]

Entities: Religion, Azerbaijan, Forum 18

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Two Kazakhstan grandmothers fined for their faith

OSLO, Norway (BP)—Two grandmothers in their 70s were among seven Baptists fined for participating in an unregistered religious meeting in a private home in eastern Kazakhstan on April 4.Each was fined the equivalent of one to two months’ average wages ... [Published Florida Baptist Witness - May 02 2013]

Entities: Forum 18, Ayagoz (Kazakhstan), Kazakhstan

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

President praises country's religious freedom; law introduced to punish faith-sharing

Kazakhstan (MNN) ― There's an interesting back-and-forth battle in Kazakhstan.Forum 18 News says early last week, the country's president claimed Kazakhstan respects religious freedom. But within 48 hours, there were heavy fines against Protestant Christians ... [Published Mission Network News - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Forum 18, Religion, Kazakhstan

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We have already said no to east-west tunnel [Published Melbourne Age - May 20 2013]

...I told her that I would stand by my car if she needed support. He told me to ''f--- off''. When I said he was being aggressive, he replied: "If I was being aggressive, I would have kicked the shit out of the old lady." He continued to shout abuse at me

Showing the courage to stand up to attacks [Published Melbourne Age - May 19 2013]

Mominov told them he had a personal Bible and a personal Injil (New Testament). "They took these books and examined them, and immediately said they could not give them back as they don't have the required approval stamp from the Gengesh" Protestants complained to Forum 18. His computer was also seized

TURKMENISTAN: Lebap Region raids, confiscations, fines and public vilification [Published Forum 18 - May 17 2013]

...In his article "Pathways to the Pulpit: Leadership Training in 'Patriotic' and Unregistered Chinese Protestant Churches" which appeared in the 2009 edited volume "Making Religion, Making the State", Vala described the "rigorous and lengthy application process" for admission...

CHINA: Tight state controls on religious education [Published Forum 18 - May 16 2013]

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