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Subject: Re: Moscow victory for Salvation Army


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herman
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Date Posted: 05:48:20 03/07/02 Thu
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In reply to: herman 's message, "Moscow victory for Salvation Army" on 05:43:29 03/07/02 Thu

Dated Jan 10th 2002

Earlier Related Article Titled : Moscow bans Salvation Army

By Steve Rosenberg in Moscow
The authorities in Moscow have refused to re-register the Salvation Army, claiming it to be a dangerous group.

The ban has fuelled fears that religious freedom in Russia may be in danger, as the Russian Orthodox Church tries to assert its influence across the country.

They may feed the hungry and care for the sick, but to Moscow's Department of Justice, the Salvation Army is nothing more than a violent paramilitary group out to destroy the Russian state.

The officials' refusal to re-register it is strange, really.

After all, since 1992, when the Salvation Army set up in Moscow, it has provided humanitarian aid for nearly 900 different city organisations - everything from churches to prisons, hospitals to orphanages.

Now, though, it is the Army itself which is in need of help.

In one part of the city its meals-on-wheels service for the elderly has been suspended.

It faces eviction from some of its Moscow properties, and local police have been gate-crashing services to check documents

http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/europe/newsid_1111000/1111092.stm

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