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Religioscope - Russia - Are Religious Organs Equal Before the Law? (1119 words) |
 | In an attempt to gauge the extent to which this is the case, Keston News Service recently questioned a variety of religious representatives in the two Volga republics of Tatarstan and Mari-El about their experiences in the fields of state education and prison ministry. |
| Kutasova told Keston that, while the history of Mari culture, which has close links with paganism, is already taught in the republic's schools, local pagan priests, or karts, do not have access to pupils. |
| In the autumn of 2001 and the spring of this year, she reported, the local education minister had invited her and a local mullah to deliver a series of lectures on the religious elements of culture to secondary school teachers of ninth-grade pupils in one district of Kazan. |
| Keston Institute - Information About Keston (259 words) |
| Keston was founded in 1969 by Michael Bourdeaux who later won the Templeton prize for progress in religion in 1984. |
| The permanent role of Keston is to record the unrecorded history of the attitude of the state Communism towards religion in general and Christianity in particular. |
| In the present Keston monitors relationships between Communist and former Communist countries and religious communities related to the freedom of religious expression and belief and suppression thereof. |
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