EXAMPLES
OF MEDIA COVERAGE OF
RELIGION
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Examples from Great Britain |
• Muslim schools citizenship warning
Independent Muslim schools must make greater efforts to show pupils a British "common heritage", says the education watchdog for England. Ofsted chief David Bell said schools needed to protect the "cohesion" of an inclusive, multicultural society. (BBC)
| Examples
from South Caucasus | •
MDI
special report: Religious Minorities in Armenia
 (PDF / 954KB)
Religious
freedom has been a key issue in Armenia since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Nothing has been more controversial than the freedom of Armenians to stray from
the Armenian Apostolic Church - and the freedom of foreign missionaries to tempt
them to do so. In May 2004, MDI brought together an eight-person team of Armenian
print journalists to produce an in-depth investigation of the situation of religious
minorities in Armenia. Included is material on evangelism, Jehovah's Witnesses,
Mormons, and others - and how the Armenian Apostolic Church and Armenians in general
are reacting to them. The special report was published in six Armenian newspapers.
(MDI special report, May 2004)
| Examples
from South-East Europe |
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A
Tragic Warning On
Christmas Eve last year, Muamer Topalovic, 25, a Bosniak from Konjic, a town in
Herzegovina-Neretva canton, entered the home of the Andjelic family, Croatian
returnees in the village of Kostajnica, and opened fire, killing three family
members. This gruesome killing was the gravest crime to date against returnees
in post-war Bosnia......
(by
Merima
Spahic
- BETA - MDI, 2003)
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Obstacles
to Reconciliation
A priest
of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Bosnian town of Prijedor, Ranko Maletic,
urges his congregation every Sunday sermon to respect the rights of all their
neighbors and help returnees to the Prijedor region make a peaceful and dignified
life for themselves. Every Friday, Imam Merzuk Efendi Hadzirasidovic, sends the
same message to Muslims gathered in the mosque. Despite this, however, attacks
against religious buildings, not only in the Prijedor region, but throughout Bosnia
and Herzegovina, are ever more frequent......
(by
Ljiljana Kovacevic
- BETA - MDI, 2003)
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Bulgarian
Villagers Fighting for a School About
400 Bulgarian Muslim inhabitants of the village of Egrek entered the no man's
land between Bulgaria and Greece at the end of November. They did this in protest
over the closing of a local school. They claim this deprived them of the right
to education, and say the move was forced by the municipal authorities, dominated
by the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which represents ethnic Turks......
(by
Nikolai Petrov - BETA - MDI, 2002)
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