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Thursday, June 09, 2005
Russia Considering Amendments To Religion Law
Forum 18 reports today that the Religion Committee of Russia's Parliament has begun to consider four important amendments to Russia's 1997 Religion Law. The amendments would give the government more discretion in evaluating registration applications by religious groups, and would require advance notice of religious activities planned outside of regular places of worship and certain other places. The proposals would also require any invitations to foreign religious workers to come from centralized religious organizations.