Russia rejects 'tendentious' US religion report
Orthodox News
7 October 2008
Russia rejects 'tendentious' US religion report
Warsaw (ENI). Russia's foreign ministry has rejected a U.S. government
report on religious freedom, and dismissed its claim that the country treats
minority faiths unfairly. "The latest report published on their Web site
shows a traditionally tendentious approach to Russia," the ministry said in
a statement about the 2008 edition of the annual International Religious
Freedom Report, released by the U.S. State Department in September. "The
thesis about the privileged status of the Russian Orthodox Church is again
exaggerated in the report. The fact that Orthodox Christmas is a holiday in
Russia is used as 'proof' of this, as if the multinational U.S. does not
officially celebrate the Catholic Christmas," the Russian foreign ministry
said in its response to the U.S. report. [449 words, ENI-08-0804]
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