MINELRES: Keston News Service Summary: 16-17 May 2002 (content)

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KESTON NEWS SERVICE SUMMARY  16-17 May 2002

Summaries of recent reporting on violations of religious liberty and
on religion in communist and post-communist lands.
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KAZAKHSTAN: KRISHNA DEVOTEES THREATENED WITH DEPORTATION (16 May) 

TURKMENISTAN: PROTESTANTS FORCED TO RENOUNCE THEIR FAITH (17 May) 

RUSSIA�S GROWING RELIGIOUS REPRESSION. (This article was published in
the Washington Post of 5th May 2002 and is reprinted with permission.)

by Lawrence Uzzell, Director of Keston Institute

The writer is head of the Oxford-based Keston Institute
(www.keston.org), an independent research center specializing in
international religious freedom.


Copyright (c) 2002 Washington Post. All rights reserved.

Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan summaries copyright (c) 2002 Keston
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