eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 12 February 2003

US group investigates religious liberty in Russia

Moscow (ENI). A US government advisory group is investigating freedom of religion in Russia following the leak of a Russian government report that suggested Roman Catholics, Protestants, Muslims and new religious movements threaten national security. The document, leaked in December, was a draft drawn up by Russian Nationalities Minister Valentin Zorin and the Moscow-backed Chechen leader, Ahmad Kadyrov. The report prompted a visit to Moscow in January by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, set up in the United States under the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act. [432 words, ENI-03-0062]

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