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Published in: oDRJehovah's Witnesses go underground in SamaraThe branding of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Samara as an extremist organisation has turned them into religious...
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Published in: TransformationSign me up to Russell Brand's sharing revolutionRussell Brand has a deft ability to weave his spiritual convictions into a case for wholesale political and economic...
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Published in: oDRThe Russian religious versus the hard rockers
In Novosibirsk ‘Orthodox activists’ have declared open war not only on rock fans but on the mayor and governor as...
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Published in: oDRIs Central Asia afraid of ISIS?The self-proclaimed ‘Islamic State’ has been seizing more and more territory in the Middle East, and now has its...
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Published in: oDRMoscow’s young Muslims might be tomorrow’s militantsA recent clash with the police is a sign of the alienation felt by some young men from Moscow’s Muslim community. на...
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Published in: TransformationDorothy Day and Thomas Merton: two journeys to wholenessTwo lives show that a truly integrated existence—a life-long process of personal and political transformation—lies...
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Published in: oDRAsher Krichevsky – exemplary Rabbi or an Israeli spy?Could it really be that Chief Rabbi of the Omsk Region, Israeli-born Asher Krichevsky, is an Israeli spy? На русском языке
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Published in: oDRPutin’s International BrigadesThe Donbas separatists have been fighting the Ukrainian army with the help of volunteers from all over the world –...
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Published in: TransformationWe must all be allowed to love each other with honour: spirituality and social transformationSecular narratives of social transformation are often separated from religious narratives of personal...
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Published in: oDRPraying to PutinA recent lecture in Moscow asked, ‘Will Putin become God through grace?'
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIraqi refugees from Mosul seek a home away from home
Christian families who have the means have managed to escape the Islamic State in Mosul for Jordan, which has...
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Published in: TransformationIf we can have p2p economics, why not p2p spirituality?No more gurus: the emergence of peer production opens the way to a commons of spiritual knowledge from which all...
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Published in: oDRLook far right, and look right againThe Russian political establishment thinks that Ukrainians are 'traitors to Orthodox civilisation and Russian...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSisi’s religious conquestThe purging of the Muslim Brotherhood from Egyptian politics will not necessarily put the country on the path to...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe rise of Christianity in the Islamic RepublicA new social trend in the Islamic Republic of Iran seems to target not only state-sponsored religious norms of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaActivists in Bahrain denounce Al-Khalifa anti-Shi'ite policyEarlier last week, on 7 May, political activists affiliated to Bahraini opposition groups delivered a letter to UN...
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Published in: openSecurityNot polished enough! Have Swedes had enough of the far right?In an increasingly unequal Sweden, the far right has been able to capitalise on growing insecurity for its...
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Published in: oDRPrisoners without conscienceMembers of BORN, a Russian ultranationalist group, will soon face trial for murder. They have been linked with...
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Published in: TransformationListening to the Buddha: how greed, ill-will and delusion are poisoning our institutionsWhen politics and economics are based on the worst aspects of human nature, societies become riddled with inequality...
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Published in: oDRLanguage as a barrier to dialogue in UkraineThe issue of language and politics has long been a problem in Ukraine. Recent developments and unrelenting Russian...
