"Growing Protestants, Catholics Draw Ire"
New law would expand special status for Russian Orthodoxy
Felix Corley and Geraldine Fagan | posted 6/10/2002 12:00AM
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Several Protestant groups, including Baptists and Pentecostals, would meet the new restrictions. Many others cannot meet the 80-year test. However, some of the 80-plus Protestant groups that have come to Russia since 1989 might qualify. They belong to associations that already have traditional status.
It is "uncharitable and short-sighted for Christians of any persuasion to accept government tolerance for themselves," Elliott says, "while putting on blinders in cases of government infringements upon the rights of other religious groups."
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