By Reuters – Feb 16,2019 – JORDAN TIMES An Afghan boy jumps from the remains of a Soviet-era tank on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Friday (Reuters photo) MOSCOW […]
Source: Economist Even though they profess indifference to them MANY WESTERNERS regard the Jehovah’s Witnesses, handing out tracts on street corners or knocking on strangers’ doors, as somewhere between a […]
Source: Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has criticized Ukraine’s move to set up a new Orthodox church independent from Moscow and promised to defend religious freedom. Earlier […]
Source: Time By ABIGAIL ABRAMS / PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND When a group of Rhode Island’s top officials gathered in a chilly warehouse in Providence in mid-January to fight foreign interference in […]
Source: Reuters BY Andrew Osborn ORYOL, Russia (Reuters) – The first Jehovah’s Witness detained for extremism in Russia has likened the authorities’ behavior to that of Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union ahead […]
Source: BBC News Activists in Russia say there has been a new crackdown against LGBT people in Chechnya. The Russian LGBT Network believes about 40 people have been imprisoned since […]
Source: BBC News Officially the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is now fully independent of Moscow, but many parishes remain loyal to the Russian patriarch – leading in some cases to […]
Source: Pew Research Center By David Masci The recent decision by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to split from its Russian counterpart after more than 300 years of being linked reflects […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Turkey does not want to see the success of its cooperation with Russia as part of the Astana process depreciated, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in an […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Marc Bennetts MOSCOW (RNS) — Before he was arrested in April, Anatoly Vilitkevich often went door to door in his hometown, proselytizing and passing out […]
Source: The Atlantic By Hassan Hassan Russia’s growing presence in the Middle East is generally discussed in military and economic terms. Moscow’s 2015 intervention in Syria to prop up the […]
Source: Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The head of the Russian Orthodox Church says the data-gathering capacity of devices such as smartphones risks bringing humanity closer to the arrival of […]
Jan 02,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN The Astana axis, comprised of Russia, Iran and Turkey, has gained increasing importance over the past two years, as Damascus, with the […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent and agencies As relations between Russia and Ukraine deteriorate over the seizure of three ships by Moscow, the long-running conflict between the two countries […]
We are facing a situation where millions could be killed in minutes. The death toll could be even greater than that of the two world wars put together Des Browne […]
Reuters International This content was published on November 8, 2018 9:37 PM By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan said on Thursday it was in talks with Washington and Moscow […]
By Reuters – Nov 07,2018 -JORDAN TIMES BEIRUT — The United States said on Wednesday it hoped Russia would continue to allow Israel to strike Iranian targets in Syria, despite […]
Source: The Washington Post By Amie Ferris-Rotman MOSCOW — When hundreds of Jewish delegates from around the world convened in the Russian capital this week, their Russian hosts had prepared an […]
Source: Reuters By Matthias Williams, Pavel Polityuk KIEV (Reuters) – Priests like Metropolitan Oleksandr face a choice: join Ukraine’s new independent church and be labeled a renegade by supporters of his […]
Oct 31,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF The four-way summit that was held in Istanbul on Saturday on Syria was extraordinary in more than one way. Turkish President […]
