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Hindus, Sikhs feeling discrimination, consider exiting Afghanistan

May 1, 2015 by Richard Cimino

Many Hindus and Sikhs have left or are considering leaving Afghanistan due to increasing discrimination by the country’s religious majority, reports Hinduism Today (April/May/June). Hindu and Muslim residents estimate that the population has declined to about 7,000 from the approximately 200,000 Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan before 1992. One issue in contention is the Hindu […]

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A global Catholic moment for Africa—or is it Latin America?

April 1, 2015 by Richard Cimino

While African Catholics have been viewed as the future of the church by their sheer numbers, there are also signs that the African church is in a position to become a moral voice on its continent as well as in global Catholicism, writes John L. Allen on the Catholic website Crux (March 24). Allen notes […]

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Gun control moves on to mainline, ecumenical agendas

March 1, 2015 by Richard Cimino

Mainline Protestants and other ecumenical religious groups are using a range of strategies to fight for gun control, writes David A. Graham in The Atlantic (February). “A coalition of mainline Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church, and Jewish and Muslim leaders are now among the staunchest institutional backers of stricter gun control,” he adds. Some of […]

Filed Under: Archive, Domestic

Not all Pentecostals are growing in Latin America

March 1, 2015 by Richard Cimino

Although Pentecostalism shows few signs of decline in Latin America, one prominent denomination is seeing serious losses, and it may be because they are behind the curve in using technology and media. For the first time since its inception, the Congregação Cristã in Brasil (CCB) has lost members— 200,000 members in the last decade—while other […]

Filed Under: Archive, International

Jewish rebirth in Ukraine

March 1, 2015 by Jean-François Mayer

Since 1991, a number of Jewish communities and organizations have reappeared in Ukraine, writes Juliana Smilianskaya, director of the Institute for Jewish Studies in Kyiv, in Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West (February). Their number has regularly grown since Ukrainian independence and has enjoyed the support of international Jewish organizations. Currently, 290 Jewish communities […]

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Growing nationalist attachments among Ukraine’s Orthodox, Protestants and Catholics

March 1, 2015 by Jean-François Mayer

In a country with a weak state such as Ukraine, religious bodies have gained respect through their presence with the people during the 2013-2014 protest movement that led to the current political situation. Now Ukraine must choose either to attempt to use religion as a support for political legitimacy or embrace a secular path in […]

Filed Under: Archive

Turkey’s new ‘mosque diplomacy?’

March 1, 2015 by Jean-François Mayer

A state sponsored program to build mosques in foreign countries has emerged as a foreign policy instrument for Turkey and a way to assert a leadership role in the Muslim world, writes Thomas Seibert in Al Monitor (Feb. 13). The Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) runs the international mosque-building program through a foundation. Most recently, […]

Filed Under: Archive, Feature

Featured Story: Alcoholics Anonymous caught between ‘secularizers’ and ‘fundamentalists’

February 1, 2015 by Richard Cimino

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is showing growing conflict and diversity over the role and meaning of spirituality in its meetings, although the organization is likely to hold together, write psychologists Ernest Kurtz and William White in the current issue of the online journal Religions (No. 6, 2015). In the last few years there have been feuds […]

Filed Under: Archive, Featured Story

Online ordinations put to unconventional spiritual uses

February 1, 2015 by Richard Cimino

Online ordinations groups, such as the Universal Life Church (ULC), are branching out from mainly offering the public “priests for the day” for friends and family members’ weddings to appealing to more serious spiritual entrepreneurs seeking a license for their unconventional ministries, writes Heather Adams in the Washington Post (Jan. 13).  The ULC and related […]

Filed Under: Archive, Domestic

Adventists’ evangelical temptation

February 1, 2015 by Richard Cimino

There is a growing clash in Seventh Day Adventism between those who want to move closer to evangelicals in worship style and shared beliefs and those pressing for maintaining Adventist identity, reports Christianity Today (January/February). For more than a decade, there has been a movement of Adventists toward contemporary evangelical worship styles and closer cooperation […]

Filed Under: Archive, Feature

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