New Religion Law Fraught with Potential for Abuses
by Beverly Nickles in Moscow
The new Russian Law on Freedom of Conscience that became
official October 1 has many evangelical worshipers concerned
that the government will seek to terminate their religious
activities.
Embattled ministry appeals judicial ruling.
By Keston News Service, Religion News Service | posted 10/31/01
A Moscow court has ordered the local Salvation Army branch to close. Vladimir Ryakhovsky, a lawyer for the Moscow-based Slavic Center for Law and Justice, says the Army is appealing.
Judge Svetlana Grigoreva of the Tagansky district court issued an oral ruling on September 12. The Army’s attorneys received the written ruling on September 28. Ryakhovsky says the order halting the branch’s activities is unjustified.
Friends and co-workers fondly remember his compassion.
By Jan Nunley | posted 9/25/00
An American Episcopal priest fulfilling a lifelong dream of working in Russia was found stabbed to death in his Moscow apartment August 24.
Russian authorities said the Rev. Steve Charles Malcom, 49, had been dead for almost a week when his body was discovered. A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy would not give a possible motive for the killing, but said that audio and video equipment was missing from Malcom’s apartment.
Malcom had lived in Russia for three years as an English instructor and tutor. He had spent the month of July teaching in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, some 2,600 miles east of Moscow. His brother-in-law, Rob Prillaman, indicated that Russia’s uncertain economy had forced Malcom to take the temporary part-time position at Irkutsk.