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08VATICAN58	LEVINSON CASE UPDATE [...] (SBU) As reported in ref. A, Monsignor Franco Coppola, Director for the Middle East at the Holy See Secretariat of State, informed A/DCM on July 4 that the Holy See Nuncio in Teheran, Archbishop Jean Paul Gobel, has sent a diplomatic note to the Government of Iran requesting a meeting to discus [...]	2008-07-30 14:38:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC KJUS PREL PHUM PTER KIRF IR VT

08VATICAN60	IRAQI AMBASSADOR COMMENTS ON MALIKI'S MEETING WITH THE POPE [...] (C) Summary: During his recent meeting with the Pope and with Holy See Secretary of State Bertone, Maliki both recognized the need and committed to protect and assist Christians in Iraq. The Pope also asked Maliki to assist Iraqi refugees and internally displaced persons. In a separate meeting [...]	2008-08-04 13:46:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF KIRF IZ VT
08VATICAN61	HOLY SEE ON MADRID INTER-RELIGIOUS CONFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: For the Holy See, the most important aspect of the July 16 to 18 Madrid inter-religious conference (reftel A) is the fact that the Saudi King was firmly behind it. The Madrid conference was disappointing in its failure to address religious freedom and, to a lesser extent, to set u [...]	2008-08-04 13:55:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SA SP VT
08VATICAN62	THE POPE'S MEGAPHONE: A SURVEY OF HOLY SEE MEDIA [...] (U) Media coverage of the Holy See is as global as the Catholic Church itself. The international dimension of the Holy See's own communication efforts, as well as that of the media covering it, provides Embassy Vatican with a unique platform to reach linguistically and geographically diverse [...]	2008-08-13 18:32:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KPAO KIRF VT
08VATICAN63	RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT: HOLY SEE FOCUSED ON CIVILIANS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Holy See is very concerned about the conflict in Georgia, and in particular about the needs of civilians affected by the fighting. The Pope has publicly addressed these concerns in recent statements. The Holy See has not been asked to mediate in the conflict. End summary [...]	2008-08-22 16:24:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF RU GG VT
08VATICAN64	(SBU) HOLY SEE NOT CONSIDERING RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (SBU) Pol Chief delivered reftel A demarche to Monsignor Julio Murat, Director for the Caucasus at the Holy See Secretariat of State Second Section (MFA equivalent),on August 29. Murat stated that the Holy See is not considering recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 2. (SBU) Comme [...]	2008-08-29 15:44:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF RU GG VT
08VATICAN65	CATHOLIC MOVEMENT WARY OF EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE [...] Summary: A panel discussion on justice and human rights -- which included a presentation by Ambassador Glendon -- and conversations with members of the Catholic lay movement indicate that an important segment of European Catholics are wary of some of the continent's institutions' and governme [...]	2008-09-05 14:59:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VT
08VATICAN66	DEMARCHE DELIVERED, UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS [...] DCM delivered reftel demarche on US human rights priorities for the Third Committee meetings of the 2008 UN General Assembly to Monsignor Pietro Parolin, the Holy See's deputy foreign minister, on September 9. 2. Additionally, Pol Chief discussed reftel points with Monsignor Christophe El [...]	2008-09-12 14:50:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF UN VT
08VATICAN67	BELIEVERS, NOT RELIGIONS, HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: Believers, not religions, have human rights, according to the Holy See's point person on human rights. The Holy See opposes the Defamation of Religions resolution and is skeptical about a UN special session on religion. End summary. 2. (U) Pol Chief met on September 11 with [...]	2008-09-17 08:02:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF VT
08VATICAN68	VATICAN OFFICIALS DISCUSS GEORGIA CRISIS, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 9, Vice Presidential Advisor Joseph Wood, accompanied by the DCM , held separate meetings with two senior Vatican officials to seek views from the Holy See on the situation between Russia and Georgia. Vatican officials raised humanitarian issues as the primary conc [...]	2008-09-19 13:56:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF GG RS UP IR KZ VT
08VATICAN72	(SBU) IRANIANS CHASTISE HOLY SEE ON LEVINSON [...] (SBU) According to Monsignor Franco Coppola, Director for the Middle East at the Holy See Secretariat of State, the Government of Iran recently informed the Holy See Nuncio in Teheran that it does not have any information about the whereabouts of U.S. citizen Robert Levinson. The GOI informed [...]	2008-10-02 15:20:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC KJUS PREL PHUM PTER KIRF IR VT
08VATICAN73	HOLY SEE ON IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW [...] (C) Summary: At a Holy See-requested urgent meeting, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Monsignor Pietro Parolin, asked USG assistance in ensuring minority quotas for Iraqi provincial councils. Parolin said that the Article 50 deletion from the Provincial Elections Law (PEL) sends a "most n [...]	2008-10-06 15:59:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF IZ VT
08VATICAN77	HOLY SEE ON SAUDI PROPOSAL FOR UNGA INTERFAITH HIGH LEVEL [...] (S) Summary: The Vatican and the Saudi government apparently have reached agreement on revisions to the Madrid Declaration, the ostensible outcome document for the first round of their inter-religious dialogue. This could pave the way for Vatican concurrence to a high-level discussion at the [...]	2008-10-15 14:59:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA KISL KIRF SA VT
08VATICAN84	VATICAN TO HOST MUSLIM SCHOLARS [...] (U) The Holy See will host the first formal meeting of the Catholic-Muslim Forum November 4 to 6. The forum is the result of the dialogue appeal letter that 138 Muslim scholars sent to Pope Benedict XVI following his controversial September 2006 Regensburg address. That letter, entitled "A Co [...]	2008-11-03 16:44:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SA JO VT
08VATICAN85	POPE BENEDICT XVI SENDS HIS CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT [...] Vatican City Secretary of State, His Eminence Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, requested the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See to transmit the following message from Pope Benedict XVI to President Obama. Start Quote: The Honorable Barack Obama President-elect of the United States of America On [...]	2008-11-05 15:01:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KIRF VT
08VATICAN86	CORRECTED COPY: POPE CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] The Holy See Secretary of State, His Eminence Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, requested the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See to transmit the following message from Pope Benedict XVI to President-elect Obama. Begin text: The Honorable Barack Obama President-elect of the United States of America [...]	2008-11-06 09:38:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL OVIP KIRF VT
08VATICAN87	FIRST CATHOLIC-MUSLIM FORUM MEETING SUCCESFUL [...] (C) Participants of the first substantial meeting of the Catholic-Muslim Forum held in Rome November 4 to 6 (ref. A) were satisfied with the event and their audience with the Pope. The Forum agreed to meet again in two years, possibly in a Muslim-majority country. The meeting's final declara [...]	2008-11-10 17:45:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SA JO VT
08VATICAN90	SPECIAL ENVOY SADA CUMBER ASKS VATICAN TO BROADEN [...] (C) Summary: During a November 19 visit to Rome, US Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Sada Cumber urged the Holy See to broaden Catholic-Muslim dialogue to include all schools of Islam, in order to reduce Saudi Arabia's and Iran's ability to claim they speak for [...]	2008-12-05 18:44:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI SA IR VT
08VATICAN91	(C) NEA DAS DAVID HALE DISCUSSES LEBANON WITH THE VATICAN [...] (C) The Holy See shares the USG goal of a peaceful, free and sovereign Lebanon. The Vatican advocates a cautious approach that focuses on consensus and restraint to achieve this goal. The Vatican's point person for Lebanon urged the U.S. and the West to support March 14, but to discourage "unr [...]	2008-12-05 18:52:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF LE VT
08VIENTIANE579	LAOS TO HOST REGIONAL RELIGIOUS CONFERENCE; NGO, DRL VISITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Parallel visits by the Department's first Ambassador for Religious Freedom and a key DRL staff member helped promote the issue of religious freedom in Laos this past week. AMB (ret.) Robert Seiple brought an invitation from an NGO now headed by his son for Laos to host an intern [...]	2008-10-27 10:30:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI LA VM
08YEREVAN1013	DASHNAK LEADERS TELL AMBASSADOR VIEWS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Top Dashnaksutyun party leaders called on the Ambassador to broaden their contacts with USG. The Dashnaks fretted about the rights and welfare of Georgia's Armenian minority, which they portrayed as a dangerous crisis with the potential to deteriorate into irredentist conflict. T [...]	2008-12-17 06:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS CVIS KIRF KDEM TU RU GG
08YEREVAN214	THE UGLY--AND UNUSUAL--SPECTER OF ANTI-SEMITISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenia's presidential election period bizarrely featured an unwelcome guest: anti-Semitism. A government-affiliated national television network aired a despicable, hour-long "documentary" of hate speech, that labeled the leading opposition candidate a "Zionist Jew" in cahoots wi [...]	2008-03-12 13:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KDEM AM
08YEREVAN497	ARMENIAN PRESS CONTINUES TO USE ANTI-SEMITISM TO VILIFY THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Beginning in mid-May, pro-government print media and state-run Public Television have made outlandish anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic accusations against former president and current opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP). Most of the accusations appear to be harsher versio [...]	2008-06-18 09:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF AM
08YEREVAN635	PRIME MINISTER AWARDS JEWISH COMMUNITY HEAD [...] (SBU) On July 21, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian in a surprise move awarded Rimma Varzhapetian, the Chairwomen of the Armenian Jewish Community NGO, a memorial medal in recognition of her contribution to the strengthening and promotion of Armenian-Jewish relations. According to press reports, [...]	2008-08-08 08:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SCUL KIRF AM
09ABUJA1296	NIGERIA: KANO GOVERNOR SPONSORS FIRST ISLAMIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau of the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP),sponsored two days of meetings he termed the First Islamic Summit on June 29-30. The summit appeared to be first and foremost a platform for the Governor to promote his political agenda, providin [...]	2009-07-16 16:16:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF KISL NI
09ABUJA148	NIGERIA: JOS REMAINS CALM AS LOCAL GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 21, Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang swore in the controversial 17 Local Government Area (LGA) chairmen whose November 27, 2008 elections were marred by alleged rigging that sparked a surge of violence in Jos resulting in over 300 deaths (ref B). Despite concerns from [...]	2009-01-27 10:07:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF ASEC NI
09ABUJA1515	NIGERIA: NIGER STATE POLICE ARREST THOUSANDS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Niger State security forces raided the Darul Islam compound on August 15. Press reports indicate police arrested approximately 4,000 people and detained them for questioning. Although the operation was peaceful, religious leaders and human rights activists allege that the GON [...]	2009-08-20 06:45:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL NI
09ABUJA1516	NIGERIA: NIGER STATE POLICE ARREST THOUSANDS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Niger State security forces raided the Darul Islam compound on August 15. Press reports indicate police arrested approximately 4,000 people and detained them for questioning. Although the operation was peaceful, religious leaders and human rights activists allege that the GON [...]	2009-08-20 06:45:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL NI
09ABUJA1517	NIGERIA: NIGER STATE POLICE ARREST THOUSANDS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Niger State security forces raided the Darul Islam compound on August 15. Press reports indicate police arrested approximately 4,000 people and detained them for questioning. Although the operation was peaceful, religious leaders and human rights activists allege that the GON [...]	2009-08-20 06:45:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL NI
09ABUJA1518	NIGERIA: NIGER STATE POLICE ARREST THOUSANDS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Niger State security forces raided the Darul Islam compound on August 15. Press reports indicate police arrested approximately 4,000 people and detained them for questioning. Although the operation was peaceful, religious leaders and human rights activists allege that the GON [...]	2009-08-20 06:45:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL NI
09ABUJA1577	NIGERIA: SECT MEMBERS DEPORTED, PREACHING [...] (SBU) Summary: Authorities evicted over 1,250 Darul Islam members from Niger state to their home states and deported others to Niger Republic for lack of documentation. The mass eviction, exacerbated by unhygienic conditions at GON-provided temporary housing, evoked criticism from human righ [...]	2009-08-26 15:49:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF KISL NI
09ABUJA1887	US COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (C) A U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) delegation came to Nigeria October 4-9 to follow up on its March 2009 visit and subsequent designation of Nigeria as a "country of particular concern." The delegation met with the Ministers of Interior, Justice, and Foreign Affa [...]	2009-10-16 13:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS PREL KIRF NI
09ABUJA332	NIGERIA: CALM RETURNING TO BAUCHI AFTER WEEKEND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Calm appears to be returning to Bauchi after sectarian violence on both February 21 and 23, which was apparently touched off by a parking dispute. Press reports indicate 11 people killed, houses of worship destroyed, and shops and homes sacked and burned. The army and police are [...]	2009-02-24 16:06:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF CASC NI
09ABUJA386	NIGERIA: POSSIBLE SHI'ITE PERSECUTION IN SOKOTO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloffs traveled to Sokoto State on February 24-26 and met with members of the state government, non-governmental organizations, academics, and opposition parties. In many of these meetings, the issue of Sunni-Shi'a conflict in the state emerged as a theme. Though there was a f [...]	2009-03-04 14:07:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF NI
09ABUJA435	MISSION NIGERIA WELCOMES USCIRF DELEGATION TO [...] U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes the visit of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Commissioners Donald Argue, Talal Eid, Leonard Leo, and Chair Felice Gaer, Executive Director James Standish, and USCIRF staff members David Dettoni and Tiffany Lynch to Abuja, Nigeri [...]	2009-03-11 17:18:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC PHUM PREL KIRF NI
09ABUJA475	NIGERIA: SCENESETTER FOR USCIRF VISIT (MARCH [...] (SBU) U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Your visit comes two years into President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's four-year term. Though the President came to power through deeply flawed elections in April 2007, there was hope from Ni [...]	2009-03-19 07:58:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC PHUM PREL KIRF NI
09ABUJA627	NIGERIA: A FULLER PICTURE OF THE FEBRUARY 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Poloff, PolAssist and a delegation from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) traveled to Bauchi March 30 to April 1 to gain a better understanding of the February 21-22 sectarian violence in the state. The team met with State government officials, re [...]	2009-04-15 16:58:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF NI
09ABUJA628	NIGERIA: EASTER MONDAY SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN NIGER [...] (C) Summary: On April 13, sectarian violence broke out in the town of Gwada, Niger State before spreading to the capital of Minna, resulting in over 20 injured, three churches burned, and additional property destroyed. Press reports claimed that over 110 people were arrested in relation to t [...]	2009-04-15 17:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF ASEC NI
09ABUJA634	SHARI'A LAW IN NIGERIA: NOT EXPANDING, BUT [...] (C) Summary: With politics, religion and regionalism likely playing roles in Nigeria's 2011 elections, post will be preparing a number of analytical pieces to look at issues ranging from the influence of selected governors, to ethnicity and religion, with the latter particularly exploring the [...]	2009-04-16 15:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV NI
09ABUJA745	NIGERIA: USCIRF DELEGATION DISCUSSES JOS [...] (C) Summary: A delegation from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) visited Nigeria March 19-April 3 to analyze the situation of religious tolerance in Nigeria, with particular emphasis on recent incidents of religious tension and violence. Accompanied by Poloffs, [...]	2009-04-29 17:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL NI
09ABUJA791	NIGERIA: USCIRF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DELEGATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: A delegation from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF),accompanied by PolOff, met with Muslim and Christian religious and political leaders, including Kano State Governor Shekarau, on a March 24-27 trip to Kaduna and Kano. Christian Association of Nige [...]	2009-05-06 15:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL NI
09ABUJA795	NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FORMER PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: On May 4, Ambassador (accompanied by Poloff notetaker) met with former Nigerian President General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, commonly referred to as IBB. IBB spoke frankly about his disappointment with the electoral reform process, the unlikely possibility of a military coup, the [...]	2009-05-06 18:06:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF NI
09ABUJA820	NIGERIA: PLATEAU STATE DEPORTS FULANI NOMADS [...] (C) Embassy began receiving reports on May 7 that Fulani nomads were being forcefully evicted from Wase local government area (LGA) in southeastern Plateau state. Salisu Mohammed Lawal (protect),a program manager at a USAID-funded organization, told Poloffs that, starting in late April, Fula [...]	2009-05-08 13:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF NI
09ABUJA890	NIGERIA: TWO NORTHERN MUSLIM VIEWS ON SHARI'A'S [...] (C) Summary: Visiting State Department Nigeria Desk Officer traveled with PolOff and PolSpecialist to Kano, Zaria, and Kaduna on May 10-13. During several meetings with academics, politicians, and civil society leaders, they discussed the impact of Shari'a law in Nigeria. Barrister Muzzamil [...]	2009-05-22 10:20:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF KWMN SOCI PINR PHUM PREL KISL NI
09ACCRA264	ACCRA RESPONSE TO UNHRC" DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS" [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-27 12:03:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF GH
09ADDISABABA1672	GROWING WAHABI INFLUENCE IN ETHIOPIA - AMHARA [...] (C) PAO visited Dessie, in Wello province of the Amhara Region, June 3-5, to visit the Jama Negus Mosque, which is a site for a potential Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) grant proposal for FY-10. A major Sufi shrine, the mosque is the focal point of the &Moulid al-Nebi8 (&B [...]	2009-07-15 13:37:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO KISL KIRF SCUL PROP ET
09ADDISABABA1674	WAHABISM IN ETHIOPIA AS "CULTURAL IMPERIALISM" [...] (C) Arab Wahabi missionaries, mainly from Saudi Arabia, continue to make inroads into the Ethiopian Muslim community, but are meeting increasing resistance in doing so. Islam has existed in Ethiopia since the time of the Prophet Muhammad and the mainly Sufi Muslim community has enjoyed traditi [...]	2009-07-15 13:40:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO KISL KIRF SCUL PROP ET
09ADDISABABA1675	COUNTERING WAHABI INFLUENCE IN ETHIOPIA THROUGH [...] (C) Every culture that has adopted Islam has its own unique traditions and practices for expressing their Faith. This is manifested through shrines, literature, faith rituals, and objects that include manuscripts, art, and even clothing and other accoutrements. In countries with mixed faith t [...]	2009-07-15 13:43:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO KISL KIRF SCUL PROP ET
09ADDISABABA2126	RELIGIOUS CONFLICT FUELED BY GOVERNMENT [...] (C) A recent visit by PolOff to Dessie sheds light on a violent clash that erupted between Orthodox Christians and local police in Dessie town in late June. The local government granted the Orthodox Church a plot of land to build a church in 2006, but later prevented Christians from building [...]	2009-09-02 04:44:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM KDEM ET
09ADDISABABA2908	ETHIOPIA ON RELIGIOUS DEFAMATION [...] (C) On December 8, Political-Economic Counselor met with the Director of the Directorate-General for International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Grum, to deliver Reftel points on religious defamation. Ethiopia voted in favor of the resolution last year. Grum sa [...]	2009-12-10 13:04:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KIRF ET
09ADDISABABA953	RELIGIOUS TENSIONS RISE IN GONDER [...] (C) The spate of religious conflict that erupted briefly in Gonder earlier this year is a manifestation of a long, tense history between Muslims and Christians in the region. From the mid-17th century until 1974, Muslims were not allowed to live or pray in the city. The Muslim community is at [...]	2009-04-24 06:22:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM KDEM ET
09ADDISABABA980	RELIGIOUS DYNAMICS IN ETHIOPIA; POSSIBLE CAUSES OF [...] (C) Ethiopia has enjoyed a long history of religious tolerance. In the past year, however, tensions have risen somewhat among Muslims and Orthodox Christians, the two largest religious groups in Ethiopia. Although it is likely that the recent conflicts are isolated incidents and are not caus [...]	2009-04-28 11:29:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM KDEM ET
09AMMAN1115	Pope's Visit Brings "Twitter", Tight Security, and Hopes [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 11, the Pope concluded his four-day visit to Jordan, which took him to Christian and Islamic historical sites and included a mass attended by around 20,000 people. An increased security presence was seen throughout the city with a show of force from both the Jordanian Pol [...]	2009-05-13 12:21:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF JO VT
09AMMAN1246	Child Abuse Fatalities Spark Outrage and Prompt Royal Push [...] (U) The recent deaths of two Jordanian children due to child abuse has sparked a media firestorm regarding domestic violence and generated widespread community outrage, including strong public statements from the King and Queen. Queen Rania expressed concern that Jordan has "failed" to adequat [...]	2009-06-03 07:12:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF JO
09AMMAN1529	JORDAN: POET'S PRISON SENTENCE FOR "SLANDERING [...] (C) Summary: Jordanian poet Islam Samhan was sentenced on June 22 to one year in prison and fined 14,000 USD for using Koranic verses in his published book of poetry. He was charged with "slandering Islam" and "insulting religious sentiment," although he says many of the prosecution's witness [...]	2009-07-08 10:50:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM KJUS JO
09AMMAN1576	JORDAN'S LOWER HOUSE APPROVES ASSOCIATIONS LAW [...] (SBU) Jordan's Lower House of parliament approved amendments to the controversial Law on Associations on July 12. MPs voted to retain the requirement that foreign-origin funding for NGOs operating in Jordan be approved by the full cabinet, rejecting a government proposal which would have de [...]	2009-07-13 16:18:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KIRF JO
09AMMAN1724	JORDAN'S LOWER HOUSE AND SENATE AT ODDS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan's Senate and Lower House remain at odds over an amendment to the controversial Associations Law which would restrict the operation of non-Muslim religious charities to those of certain Christian denominations only. The amendment was proposed on the floor of the Lower Hou [...]	2009-07-30 14:24:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KIRF JO
09AMMAN2018	JORDAN: POST FIGHTS FOR BAHA'I BIRTH CERTIFICATE, [...] (SBU) Summary: The approximately 1,000 Baha'i in Jordan face several forms of official discrimination, including the non-recognition of their faith and assembly, inability to register schools and places of worship, and difficulties in obtaining official documentation. One of the Baha'is immed [...]	2009-09-03 14:07:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI JO
09AMMAN2227	JORDAN: CONVICTED POET DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Post delivered reftel points to Prime Minister Nader Al-Dahabi, Justice Minister Ayman Odeh, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Bureau Chief Samer Naber. In advance of reftel, the Ambassador stressed to Royal Court Chief Nasser Lozi the need to find a suitable solution as the poet's [...]	2009-10-05 11:53:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF KJUS KWMN KTIP JO
09AMMAN2385	JORDAN: EFFORTS TO PROMOTE INTERFAITH CONCILIATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOJ has been a steadfast and even courageous advocate in the Middle East of interfaith understanding, mutual respect, and the rejection of religious extremism. In doing so, Jordan has built a moderate institutional infrastructure with which to widely promote moderate Islam an [...]	2009-10-29 11:40:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF PREL JO
09AMMAN2452	JORDAN: POSITIVE REACTION TO INTL. RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's religious minorities are pleased with the content of the 2009 International Religious Freedom (IRF) Report and believe that it accurately depicts the level of religious freedom in Jordan. Minority groups were happy that a relative lack of gross religious freedom violation [...]	2009-11-10 06:59:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF PREL JO
09AMMAN2523	JORDAN: CONTROVERSIAL RELIGIOUS SIGNS APPEAR ON AMMAN'S [...] (U) Controversial religious signs with statements, such as "know that you will die", "headscarf or suffer" and "never look at women," have appeared throughout Amman during Autumn 2009. The signs are posted in areas with heavy traffic and can be found on electricity poles, traffic lights, and [...]	2009-11-19 13:13:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF SOCI JO
09AMMAN2548	JORDAN: LOCAL GROUPS ATTACK RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] Summary: After an initial positive response (ref A) to the 2009 International Religious Freedom (IRF) report, three local organizations have publicly criticized the report. The National Center for Human Rights (NCHR),the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR),and the Jordanian Inter-fait [...]	2009-11-23 12:51:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF PREL JO
09AMMAN569	CODEL BAIRD DISCUSSES GAZA, INTERFAITH DIALOGUE, [...] (C) Summary: During a February 17-18 visit to Amman, Congressmen Brian Baird and Keith Ellison (both members of the Friends of Jordan Caucus) took the pulse of Jordanian feelings on Gaza, talked about interfaith dialogue opportunities, and received an overview of Jordanian science and techno [...]	2009-03-03 06:00:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF KIRF KWBG TSPL IS SY JO
09ASHGABAT1065	TURKMENISTAN: WOMEN PASTORS "NEED NOT APPLY" AS [...] (C) On August 22, Politcal Officer met with Word of Life Church Pastor, Elena Stryukova, and church member, Anna Joratova, to discuss the church's attempts to become registered. There are currently three Word of Life/River of Life church groups in Turkmenistan located in Ashgabat, Turkmenbash [...]	2009-08-24 10:58:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV SCUL SOCI TX
09ASHGABAT1074	TURKMENISTAN RESPONDS TO LETTER FROM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Nor for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Foreign Minister Hajiyev called in DCM on August 26 to discuss a letter Representative Joseph Pitts had sent to President Berdimuhamedov on the topic of religious freedom in Turkmenistan. Hajiyev said that w [...]	2009-08-26 10:22:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PREL SOCI SCUL TX
09ASHGABAT1128	TURKMENISTAN: A DISCUSSION AT THE COUNCIL ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to its deputy chairman, one of the primary roles of Turkmenistan's Council on Religious Affairs (CRA) is to explain legal requirements related to religious activity, especially the registration process. The revision of the current law on religion, adopted in 2003, is [...]	2009-09-04 12:28:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV SCUL SOCI TX
09ASHGABAT1154	PROCESS FOR SELECTING TURKMEN HAJJ TRAVELERS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) During an Embassy-hosted Iftar on September 10, Turkmenistan's Grand Mufti Rowshen Allaberdiyev explained to us the process for selecting the 188 government-funded Hajj travelers each year. He also asserted that, in addition t [...]	2009-09-11 10:33:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KIRF KISL TX
09ASHGABAT1208	TURKMENISTAN: RELIGIOUS GROUP INELIGIBLE TO [...] (C) On September 20, poloff met with Turkmenbashi-based Pastor Timur Muradov of the unregistered Word of Life Church. He was in Ashgabat prior to heading off the next day to a church conference in Moscow. Muradov's group had submitted an application for registration to the Council on Religio [...]	2009-09-24 05:55:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV SCUL SOCI TX
09ASHGABAT1232	TURKMENISTAN'S MUFTI REPLACED; IMAMS RESHUFFLED [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On September 26, Turkmenistan's Mufti since 2004, Rowshen Allaberdiyev, was relieved of his positions as the nation's Mufti and as the Chief Imam of the largest mosque in Turkmenistan, following a resolution by the Coun [...]	2009-09-29 03:11:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV SOCI TX
09ASHGABAT1442	TURKMENISTAN: "PATH TO HEAVEN" STARTS IN ASHGABAT [...] (C) SUMMARY. A new unregistered Protestant religious group, "Path to Heaven," has begun meeting in Ashgabat and Mary. Its founder, who previously attended Word of Life and Baptist churches in Ashgabat, is leading a group with no denominational ties and focused on the believer's freedom from [...]	2009-11-09 13:13:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI TX
09ASHGABAT1446	TURKMENISTAN: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES' WOES CONTINUE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Four Jehovah's Witness conscientious objectors are currently in prison. Their families will exhaust all means of appeal, after which the Jehovah's Witnesses will bring the cases to international fora for further attention. Harassment of Jehovah's Witnesses has increased in rec [...]	2009-11-10 13:32:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI TX
09ASHGABAT1527	"SWINE FLU" KEEPS TURKMEN FROM HAJJ TRIP [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for Internet distribution 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 7, the Turkmen government issued an order prescribing the Committee on Religious Affairs to make the necessary arrangements for a pilgrimage to holy sites around Turkmenistan for all citizens who wi [...]	2009-11-27 11:02:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF TX
09ASHGABAT1569	TURKMENISTAN: A LOOK INTO THE FEAST OF THE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) During November 28-30, Turkmen celebrated Gurban Bayram, or the Feast of the Sacrifice. Gurban Bayram is the Turkmen version of the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha, and is widely celebrated across the country. The three- [...]	2009-12-07 09:49:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI KIRF TX
09ASHGABAT1578	GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZED PILGRIMAGE TO TURKMEN SHRINES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Due to alleged concerns about the spread of the H1N1 virus, the Turkmen government decided to skip sending pilgrims to the Hajj ahead of Eid al Adha (Gurban Bayram) holiday, for the first time since 1993 (Ref [...]	2009-12-08 10:21:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF SOCI PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT1590	TURKMENISTAN: UNREGISTERED RELIGIOUS GROUP [...] (C) SUMMARY. At a recent Embassy-organized roundtable attended by leaders of unregistered religious groups, the participants were at a loss to describe a path forward. Two groups have had applications pending at the Ministry of Justice for a year, but inquiries about their status are left un [...]	2009-12-09 09:35:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT1596	TURKMENISTAN: MFA PROTESTS EMBASSY-ORGANIZED [...] (C) On December 9, MFA Americas Department Director Serdar Bashimov called in the Acting DCM to "strongly protest" the Embassy-organized roundtable for leaders of non-registered religious groups that took place on December 3 (reftel). Bashimov complained that the MFA had not been notified in a [...]	2009-12-10 09:05:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT1621	TURKMENISTAN: HARASSED AUTHOR STILL WRITING...BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Award-winning Turkmen author Rakhim Esenov continues to write, although there is little chance that his latest literary works, based on the lives of Soviet Turkmen heros, will be published any time soon. He continues to suffer from government harassment, such as telephone monit [...]	2009-12-17 03:53:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SCUL KIRF PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT1662	TURKMENISTAN: DECEMBER 25 MEETING WITH FM MEREDOV [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Chairman and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov requested a meeting with Charge on December 25. Meredov said Turkmenistan would welcome increased visits from U.S. officials, including from Congress and other cabinet departments. Regarding the upcoming Bilateral Forum, Meredov [...]	2009-12-28 10:53:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF MARR TX
09ASHGABAT1667	TURKMENISTAN: PROTESTANT CHURCH HOLDS CHRISTMAS [...] (C) On December 28, poloff attended a special Christmas holiday service organized by the registered Greater Grace Church, which is affiliated with a Baltimore-based organization of the same name (Ref A). The church had sent a glossy printed holiday greeting card and invitation to the Embassy [...]	2009-12-29 12:36:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT212	TURKMENISTAN UNICEF DIRECTOR PROPOSES DIRECTION [...] (C) On February 6, Charge met with resident UNICEF Director, Abdul Alim, to discuss UNICEF's upcoming five-year country strategy document. In the course of the discussion, Alim, a citizen of Pakistan, turned to his views on the "war for the hearts and minds" of the Islamic world, specifically [...]	2009-02-11 13:01:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID KIRF PK TX
09ASHGABAT288	TURKMENISTAN: POSITIVE SITUATION FOR EVANGELICALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: An evangelical pastor in Turkmenabat recently reported that things have gone well for his church since it completed its registration process last year. The church holds a weekly service in a rented meeting room. He said the church has many Muslim converts to Christianity who fe [...]	2009-03-03 11:53:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT300	TURKMENISTAN: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSESS STILL LACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 2, Turkmenistan's Jehovah's Witnesses resubmitted their registration application documents in a process that began in 1992. While the Jehovah's Witnesses have passed through many ups and downs during that time, the leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses' community considers [...]	2009-03-05 13:07:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT31	TURKMENISTAN: CATHOLIC CHURCH COMFORTABLE, BUT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge and poloff met with Father Andrzej Madej, the Charge at the Apostolic Nunciature, who also acts as the head of the Catholic Church, on January 6 to get an update on the church's activities and its ongoing [...]	2009-01-08 12:05:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF TX
09ASHGABAT312	TURKMENISTAN: SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS WORKED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Seventh Day Adventist Church has a long history in Turkmenistan. Despite some persistent problems, a church leader described current relations with the authorities as "good, but not the best" that they could be. The church leader noted his own efforts to educate the authorit [...]	2009-03-09 13:28:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT321	TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS RECOMMENDATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-11 12:10:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT322	TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Deputy Chairman of the Council on Religious Affairs (CRA),the Government supports the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom, although resolution of these issues will take time and cannot be done from outside the country. He stressed t [...]	2009-03-12 03:19:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT337	TURKMENISTAN: BAPTISTS ENJOY A LIMITED SPHERE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Baptist Church in Ashgabat operates out of its own property, although efforts to transfer title officially to the church continue to be thwarted. The church's leader noted continuing restrictions on proselytizing, obtaining religious literature, and conducting camps for chil [...]	2009-03-13 15:21:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT354	TURKMENISTAN: ALTHOUGH NO LONGER NUMEROUS, A [...] (C) SUMMARY: While the Bahai faith has a long history in Turkmenistan, Soviet-era repression reduced the once prominent community to a much smaller remnant. Since Turkmenistan's independence, the Bahai community's circumstances were at times difficult, but have rebounded since re-registratio [...]	2009-03-18 12:55:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT358	TURKMENISTAN: SMALL EVANGELICAL CHURCH FINDS A [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Church of Christ in Ashgabat is a small evangelical group founded by missionaries in the 1990s. The group has been registered for four years and rents a multi-purpose room in a commercial building where it holds its worship services, seminars, and youth activit [...]	2009-03-19 12:49:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT386	TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN SPEAKER APPROVED TO PREACH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 30-member New Apostolic Church, registered since 2007, is able to conduct its worship services without difficulty, acording to its pastor. For the first time, the group has received permission from the government for the visit in April of a church leader from Germany. Althou [...]	2009-03-26 05:33:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT395	TURKMENISTAN: RELIGIOUS LEADERS DISCUSS THE MYRIAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a March 25 roundtable with leaders of minority religious groups that have been registered, the participants observed that registration is a threshold obstacle. Following registration, there remain myriad issues that continually pose challenges to their groups' ability to free [...]	2009-03-27 12:12:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT409	TURKMENISTAN: RESIDENT TURKISH CITIZENS BARRED [...] (C) On March 30, poloff met with the Turkish Embassy's Counselor for Religious Affairs Aziz Chankaya to hear his views on religious practice in Turkmenistan. Chankaya explained that his role is to advise the Turkish Embassy on religious affairs as they involve the resident Turkish community. [...]	2009-03-31 12:03:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT418	TURKMENISTAN: CHARGE RAISES REGISTRATION CASES [...] (C) On March 31, the Charge met with Minister of Justice Myrat Garryev to learn about the activities of the Ministry and to discuss concerns about delays in registration of local NGOs and religious groups. The Minister spoke at length about the responsibilities of various departments within th [...]	2009-04-02 11:22:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF TX
09ASHGABAT434	TURKMENISTAN: PROVINCIAL AUTHORITIES INCREASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent meeting with a leader of Jehovah's Witnesses in Ashgabat confirmed that its adherents in the provinces have seen a recent uptick in harassment, including raids and seizures of religious literature. While the situation in the provinces is particularly tough due to poorly [...]	2009-04-07 13:38:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT575	INFORMATION REGARDING U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-07 10:06:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREF KPAO TX
09ASHGABAT680	TURKMENISTAN: THEOLOGICAL TRAINING REMAINS UNDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Theological training in Turkmenistan takes place at the State University in a department that is part of the History Faculty. The theology professors were trained by Turkish theologians during the post-Soviet era. The admissions process is overseen by the Mufti, and the number [...]	2009-06-02 11:59:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI TX
09ASHGABAT691	TURKMENISTAN: DESPITE REGISTRATION, KRISHNA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two leaders of the Society for Krishna Consciousness described the registered religous group's situation in generally positive terms, but mentioned many restrictions and uncertainties that hinder the group from attracting new members and becoming better established. Members are [...]	2009-06-04 12:46:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV SOCI TX
09ASHGABAT723	TURKMENISTAN: NONDENOMINATIONAL PROTESTANT GROUP [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to Pastor Vladimir Tolmachev, his registered Greater Grace Church encounters numerous government hindrances, despite its legal status. Religious literature, youth camps, property ownership, registration of branches, and invitations for foreign visitors all need govern [...]	2009-06-09 11:35:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV SOCI TX

09ASHGABAT738	TURKMENISTAN: DETENTION OF TWO JEHOVAH'S WITNESS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Jehovah's Witness leaders recently provided details about the imprisonment of two Jehovah's Witness conscientious objectors who had previously received suspended sentences for refusing to enlist in the milit [...]	2009-06-11 11:28:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV SOCI TX
09ASHGABAT790	TURKMENISTAN: INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION [...] (SBU) In preparation for the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Post highlights the following areas in which the Government of Turkmenistan fails to implement its OSCE commitments with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms. Improvement in many of these areas would [...]	2009-06-24 05:24:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI KIRF OSCE KDEM TX
09ASHGABAT797	AVAILABILITY OF QURAN IN TURKMENISTAN [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for Internet distribution 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A survey of bookstores in central Ashgabat to check the availability of the Quran, the holy book of Muslims, revealed that the book was practically unavailable in state stores except for rare cases of second- [...]	2009-06-25 07:09:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV SOCI SCUL TX
09ASHGABAT800	TURKMENISTAN: TWO JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES DETAINED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jehovah's Witness leaders recently provided details about the June 19 detention of two Jehovah's Witnesses in Turkmenbashi. The two women were picked up on the street, although it is not clear whether they were proselytizing or simply walking somewhere. They have been held in [...]	2009-06-25 12:18:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF SOCI PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT802	TURKMENISTAN: UPDATE ON PENTECOSTALS IN ABADAN; [...] (C) On June 24, Political Officer met with Pentecostal pastor, Ruslan Atajanov, the leader of a small unregistered group located in the town of Abadan outside Ashgabat. Atajanov's group has been waiting three years since first applying for registration. During Political Officer's last meeting [...]	2009-06-25 12:36:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF SCUL SOCI PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT813	TURKMENISTAN: CATHOLIC CHURCH MAINTAINS LOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: While the local unregistered Catholic congregation enjoys certain benefits from the diplomatic status of the Apostolic Nunciature, it nonetheless maintains a low profile that attracts little unwelcome attention from the government. The church offers regular weekly services in a [...]	2009-06-30 02:22:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF SCUL PGOV TX
09ASHGABAT838	TURKMENISTAN: SMALL PENTECOSTAL GROUP FACES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite a long history of Pentecostalism in Turkmenistan dating back to the 1940s, the current Full Gospel Church is a small, scattered group that meets in its members' homes. Registered since 2004, the group is currently in the process of re-registering due to changes in its l [...]	2009-07-02 11:35:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV SCUL SOCI TX
09ASMARA147	GSE FURTHER ISOLATES RELIGIOUS DETAINEES [...] (C) The Eritrean government (GSE) has recently been relocating prisoners from Asmara to an isolated prison in the small town of Meiter, located 113 miles northeast of Asmara, near the costal city of Massawa. The newly constructed prison is already filled with between 150 and 200 detainees hel [...]	2009-05-06 11:03:00	Embassy Asmara	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV ER
09ASMARA220	MASS ARREST OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN ASMARA [...] (C) Eritrean police arrested a group of 22 Jehovah's Witnesses in Asmara in late June and detained them in Police Station 4. The group consisted mostly of women as authorities had targeted men in earlier round-ups. According to a close embassy source, police detained four children between th [...]	2009-07-10 08:22:00	Embassy Asmara	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM SOCI PGOV ER
09ASMARA393	GSE ARRESTS 10 MORE RELIGIOUS LEADERS [...] (C) Eritrean government (GSE) security forces arrested 10 members from the Full Gospel Church in Asmara, during a mid-October raid at the home of Pastor Tewelde Hailom, according to a close embassy source. The GSE placed the pastor under house arrest and sent the other nine church members to [...]	2009-11-10 09:55:00	Embassy Asmara	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV ASEC ER
09ASMARA395	GSE CONFISCATES CATHOLIC BUILDING MATERIALS [...] (C) Over the last two weeks the Eritrean government (GSE) has confiscated truckloads of building materials used for various outreach projects from the San Francesco Catholic Church in Asmara. The building materials were purchased legally two years ago, according to one of the priests, some ev [...]	2009-11-16 06:33:00	Embassy Asmara	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV ER
09ASMARA40	ERITREAN MUSLIMS NOT EXEMPT FROM GSE ABUSE [...] (C) Mohammed Salih (protect),an Eritrean working as the information officer for a UN agency in Asmara, provided insight on the government's recent spate of Muslim arrests. According to Mohammed, the Eritrean government is using the threat of radical Islamism to justify a country-wide sweep an [...]	2009-01-30 08:40:00	Embassy Asmara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF PHUM ASEC SOCI ER
09ASMARA427	GSE ARRESTS 27 WOMEN FOR PRAYING [...] (SBU) The Eritrean government (GSE) arrested 27 women praying together in Asmara on December 6, according to multiple embassy sources (Note: although numerous media outlets report 30 arrests, local sources contend it to be 27. End Note). The women were members of the Faith Mission Church, a [...]	2009-12-14 10:53:00	Embassy Asmara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI ER
09ASTANA1044	KAZAKHSTAN: USCIRF'S COSMAN HEARS DIFFERENT VIEWS ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Catherine Cosman, Senior Analyst for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF),met June 4 - 11 with Kazakhstani civil society and religious leaders and government officials, to discuss the c [...]	2009-06-19 09:36:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KDEM KZ
09ASTANA1179	KAZAKHSTAN: NAZARBAYEV PLAYS AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE THIRD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Kazakhstan hosted the third triennial Congress of World and Traditional Religions in Astana July 1-2. More than 70 delegations with 400 participants representing Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and other relig [...]	2009-07-13 10:52:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KIRF KNNP KZ
09ASTANA1327	KAZAKHSTAN: FOR THE HUMAN DIMENSION IMPLEMENTATION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 4, we met with Sayagul Konakbayeva, the head of the Office of Humanitarian Issues within the MFA's OSCE Directorate, to deliver reftel demarche on Kazakhstan's human rights and democracy performance in a [...]	2009-08-04 11:11:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KIRF OSCE KZ
09ASTANA1427	KAZAKHSTAN: MUSLIM ACTIVIST STRUGGLES TO TURN GRAND IDEAS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Murat Telibekov, a Kazakhstani Muslim activist and president of three NGOs, is never short on grand ideas, and most of them involve the U.S. Embassy. His newest idea is to build Islamic centers in Astana and Alma [...]	2009-08-21 08:59:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KISL KIRF PINR KZ
09ASTANA173	KAZAKHSTAN: KOREANS SHARE U.S. VIEWS ON MADRID COMMITMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloff met several times in January with South Korean Embassy First Secretary Lee Jooil and Second Secretary Lee Moon-bae to discuss political and cultural relations between Kazakhstan and South Korea. South Kore [...]	2009-01-29 09:49:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI SCUL KDEM KIRF KS KZ
09ASTANA1921	KAZAKHSTAN: SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE PANDITH HEARS FROM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During her first overseas trip as Special Representative to Muslim Communities, Farah Pandith visited Kazakhstan October 12-13. In Astana, Muslim civil society leaders told her that Kazakhs are "a different kind of [...]	2009-10-27 04:39:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KISL KIRF OIC OSCE KZ
09ASTANA1935	KAZAKHSTAN: SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE PANDITH SPEAKS TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During her October 13 visit to Almaty, Special Representative to Muslim Communities (SRMC) Farah Pandith broke new ground by visiting Kazakhstan's only Islamic University and engaging the students in a lively discuss [...]	2009-10-28 00:49:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KISM KIRF OSCE KZ
09ASTANA249	KAZAKHSTAN: CHIEF MUFTI CRITICISES EXTREMISM, CAUTIOUSLY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a February 6 meeting, Chief Mufti and Head of the Spiritual Association of Muslims in Kazakhstan (SAMK) Absasttar Derbisali told the Ambassador that Islam is undergoing a renaissance in Kazakhstan. He shar [...]	2009-02-12 01:06:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI KISL KIRF KPAO KZ
09ASTANA260	KAZAKHSTAN: CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL RULES RELIGION LAW IS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 11, Kazakhstan's Constitutional Council ruled that the proposed amendments to the country's religion law are inconsistent with Kazakhstan's Constitution. Before arriving at its decision, the Council st [...]	2009-02-13 01:43:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI KIRF KDEM KZ
09ASTANA353	KAZAKHSTAN: CHIEF MUFTI'S OFFICE EXPRESSES INTEREST IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: As a follow-up to the Ambassador's recent discussion with Chief Mufti and Head of the Spiritual Association of Muslims in Kazakhstan (SAMK) Abasasttar Derbisali (see reftel),Regional English Language Office [...]	2009-02-27 01:53:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI KISL KIRF KPAO EG KZ
09ASTANA435	KAZAKHSTAN: DFM ZHIGALOV SAYS KAZAKHSTAN WOULD [...] (C) SUMMARY: New Deputy Foreign Minister Konstantin Zhigalov told the Ambassador on March 11 that Kazakhstan would very much welcome a POTUS visit. He said Kazakhstan attaches great importance to hosting the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council's Security Forum in June. Zhigalov explained that [...]	2009-03-12 07:28:00	Embassy Astana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ETRD KNNP KIRF OSCE NATO AF RS KZ
09ASTANA67	KAZAKHSTAN: UNIFICATION CHURCH MISSIONARY SENTENCED TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 9, an Almaty court found Unification Church missionary Yelizaveta Drencheva guilty on charges of "instilling a sense of inferiority in citizens based on their tribal and social association," and sentenc [...]	2009-01-14 10:33:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KDEM KZ
09ASTANA818	KAZAKHSTAN: SCIENTOLOGISTS, JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES HAVE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 22, USAID's State and Society Advisor met with representatives of the Church of Scientology and the Jehovah's Witnesses in Almaty. The two organizations offered contrasting views of progress on religious f [...]	2009-05-08 08:59:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAID SOCI KIRF KZ
09ASTANA929	KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, MAY 11 - 22 [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) The "Almaty Notes" series from U.S. Office Almaty focuses on developments in civil society, the media, and the political opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital." TRIAL OF OPPOSITION LEADERS ENDS 3. (U) The trial of [...]	2009-06-01 10:36:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON SOCI KIRF KDEM KZ
09ATHENS1463	Greek MFA on Jewish Cemetery Issues, Athens Mosque [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 28, the director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) E2 Directorate for Religious and Ecclesiastical Affairs, Amb. Christodoulos J. Lazaris, described GoG actions to address increased anti-Semitic vandalism, the current status of property restitution negotiations [...]	2009-09-09 14:33:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KISL GR
09ATHENS1515	Greece's Surging Far-Right LAOS Party Inches Towards Center [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of their unprecedented success in European Parliament elections in June, the leaders of Greece's surging, far-right Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) expect to win 6 to 7 percent of the vote and up to 20 parliamentary seats in October 4 domestic elections and are pre [...]	2009-09-28 15:51:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG KIRF GR
09ATHENS286	GREECE/OSCE: BAKOYIANNIS MEETING WITH OSCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rabbi Andrew Baker, the OSCE Personal Representative for Combating Anti-Semitism (and International Jewish Affairs Director for the American Jewish Committee) told Polofs that the OSCE Chairmanship was focused on security issues, and had not developed an agenda or active plan fo [...]	2009-03-09 10:39:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGO PHUM GR KIRF
09ATHENS595	Envoy Kennedy Presses Greeks on Holocaust Restitution, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador J. Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, visited Athens March 28-31 to discuss progress on Holocaust property restitution and combating anti-Semitism with Greek officials, the Greek Orthodox Church, and local Jewish community leaders. Ministry of Ec [...]	2009-04-16 07:05:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF GR
09ATHENS901	Greece: Muslim Migrants Protest in Athens, Radicalization [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Violent demonstrations and riots involving Muslim migrants rocked downtown Athens throughout the month of May, bringing relations between migrants and the Greek government to a new nadir and fueling fears of Islamic radicalization in Greece. Muslim community leaders and media re [...]	2009-05-29 13:04:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PTER GR KIRF ASEC ABLD PREF SMIG
09BAGHDAD1288	MINORITY QUOTAS IN UPCOMING IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] (C) Iraq's minority communities will have mandated representation in the Iraqi Kurdish Parliament following the KRG elections, currently scheduled for July 25. For the first time, Kurdish electoral law stipulates that Christians, Turkmen, and Armenians will receive 11 seats of the total 111 [...]	2009-05-17 13:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI
09BAGHDAD1426	MINORITIES FIND SECURITY IN KURDISTAN BUT [...] (C) Christian and Sabean-Mandean leaders based in the Kurdistan region report that the flow of internally displaced persons (IDPs) into their communities from the rest of Iraq has decreased to a trickle -- an indicator, they believe, that sectarian violence targeting minorities throughout Iraq [...]	2009-06-01 05:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI
09BAGHDAD1539	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS [...] (SBU) In their first meeting with Ambassador Hill, Christian religious leaders emphasized that continued emigration of Iraqi Christians abroad remains their primary concern. They stressed that, although security remains worrisome, the motivation behind current departures was economic, coupled [...]	2009-06-12 15:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IZ KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI
09BAGHDAD1545	AMBASSADOR HILL MEETS WITH MINORITY POLITICAL [...] (SBU) In their first meeting with Ambassador Hill, political representatives of Iraq's minority communities focused on the issues of emigration, greater political representation, and a perception of societal discrimination, subjects which they believed to be mutually reinforcing. They attrib [...]	2009-06-14 14:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IZ KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI
09BAGHDAD1579	IRAQI WOMEN STRUGGLE OVER HOW BEST TO ENSURE THEIR [...] (C) Sunni and Kurdish women Parliamentary leaders are pushing Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) to amend Article 41 of the Iraqi Constitution to strike language stipulating that the personal status of Iraqis is determined by their religion and sect. These MPs fear that if it [...]	2009-06-17 15:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM KIRF KWMN PGOV SOCI
09BAGHDAD1785	CHRISTIANS SEEK POLITICAL UNITY IN ADVANCE OF [...] (C) Several key Christian politicians and religious leaders have begun to lay the groundwork for the unification of Iraq's Christian political parties into a single electoral coalition in anticipation of the January 2010 national elections. Although Iraq's Christian community suffers from num [...]	2009-07-02 12:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM KIRF PGOV SOCI
09BAGHDAD1860	SABEAN-MANDEANS: UNDER SIEGE BUT HOLDING ON [...] (C) Sabean-Mandean leaders living in Iraq describe their community as desperately wanting to remain and participate in the country's political life rather than emigrate abroad, despite being the frequent targets of criminal elements. These leaders tell us that members of the community who are [...]	2009-07-10 09:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KIRF KJUS PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG IZ
09BAGHDAD1890	NON-MUSLIM ENDOWMENT: FLUSH WITH CASH, BUT NO ONE [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-13 11:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD1891	SEVEN CHURCHES BOMBED IN BAGHDAD [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-13 12:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD1988	CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISCUSS JULY 12 CHURCH BOMBINGS [...] (C) In the wake of the July 12 church bombings in Baghdad, we have met with representatives of the four largest churches in Iraq, including the heads of the Chaldean, Assyrian, and Syriac Catholic denominations as well as the Christian endowment and various Christian political leaders to expres [...]	2009-07-23 11:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD2038	MINORITY LEADERS CONCERNED ABOUT IRAQI CENSUS [...] (C) As Ministry of Planning officials continue their preparations for a nationwide census this fall, many of Iraq's ethnic and religious minority leaders have raised concerns about how the census will be administered and whether it will provide an accurate reflection of their communities' demo [...]	2009-07-30 08:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KIRF PGOV SMIG SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2107	IRAQ'S ARMENIAN COMMUNITY: GREATLY REDUCED, BUT [...] (C) The leader of Iraq's Armenian Community, Archbishop Avak Asadourian, tells us that the presence of Armenians in Baghdad has been greatly reduced since 2003, but that the Armenian Church continues to serve its remaining members. On August 5, Poloff traveled to the Armenian Cathedral in Bag [...]	2009-08-05 13:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM IZ
09BAGHDAD2277	ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD IN KRG ELECTIONS POSSIBLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the Independent Higher Electoral Commission's (IHEC's) recent certification of the results in the July 25 Kurdish Regional Elections, there remains lingering resentment among the Kurdish opposition and Christian parties that fraud, manipulation, and intimidation played [...]	2009-08-23 14:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM KIRF IZ
09BAGHDAD2303	SADR CITY SHI'A IMAMS NOT SANGUINE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shi'a imams and community activists told Emboffs that: Sunni-Shi'a reconciliation would be impossible in the near- to mid-term; Iraqis would continue to vote on sectarian lines in upcoming elections; no existing political party enjoys genuine credibility; a major effort on voter [...]	2009-08-26 16:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KIRF KCOR PTER PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD235	UPBEAT MINORITY LEADERS ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) While Christian and other minority leaders still smart over the single-seat minority quotas in the Provincial Elections Law (PEL),they no longer talk of a boycott and are encouraging their constituents in the north and other regions to vote in the provincial elections on January 31. Chri [...]	2009-01-29 13:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2441	PM MALIKI, CODEL LEVIN DISCUSS FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Maliki told CODEL Levin Iraq faces interference from neighboring countries intent on fomenting sectarian discord, and Syria-based Iraqi Ba'athists and al-Qaeda in Iraq elements conspired to perpetrate the August 19 bombings. He expressed confidence in Iraqi Security Forces' (I [...]	2009-09-10 06:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR UN KIRF IR IZ SY
09BAGHDAD2473	MOI TO HIRE 500 CHRISTIANS AND MANDEANS TO GUARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to requests from the non-Muslim Endowment and the bombings of six churches in Baghdad on July 12, the GOI has authorized the Ministry of Interior (MOI) to hire, train and pay 500 guards drawn from Iraq's Christians and Sabean-Mandean communities to serve as guards at ch [...]	2009-09-14 05:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PTER SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2491	MINORITY QUOTAS IN NATIONAL ELECTIONS LIKELY, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minority political leaders tell us that it is increasingly likely that the forthcoming national election law will include reserved seats for Iraq's minority communities. Such a move would continue the trend of providing for minority representation that began in the Provincial Cou [...]	2009-09-15 10:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2528	MANDEANS FACE INTERNAL SPLIT EVEN AS THEY SEEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sabean-Mandean leaders tell us they are making a united full-court press to secure guaranteed representation in the next Iraqi Parliament, even as current leader Sheikh Sittar Hillo fends off a challenge from a younger rival. While the Mandeans acknowledge that the GOI has taken [...]	2009-09-21 10:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2567	BAHAI CASE TESTS IRAQ'S RESPECT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leaders of Iraq's small Bahai community are requesting the assistance of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) in their bid to receive identification documents that would list their religion as Bahai rather than Muslim. Although the MOI issued a small number of ID cards listing the Bahai [...]	2009-09-24 11:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2599	MOSQUE DISPUTE RAISES SECTARIAN TENSIONS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: An ongoing dispute over whether a mosque located in the Salman Pak neighborhood of southern Baghdad rightfully belongs to the Sunni or the Shia Endowment is raising sectarian tensions and undermining economic reconstruction efforts in the area. The Prime Minister has appointed a [...]	2009-09-28 08:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2683	EVANGELICAL CHURCHES FIND PATH TO OFFICIAL [...] (C) A key Iraqi Evangelical Church leader tells us that Evangelical Churches are unable to obtain official recognition from the GOI because of overly stringent registration requirements imposed by the non-Muslim Endowment, thus preventing these churches from conducting legally sanctioned marri [...]	2009-10-06 09:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2748	IRAQ'S REMAINING JEWS STAY HIDDEN [...] (C) On October 10, Poloff met with one of the last remaining Jews in Iraq, Khalida Fouad Liahu Moualim (strictly protect),to discuss the current state of the Iraqi Jewish community. Moualim stated that there are now eight remaining members of the Iraqi Jewish community in Baghdad including h [...]	2009-10-13 06:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2758	CHRISTIANS RECRUITED FOR SHI'A-LED ELECTORAL [...] (C) Two prominent Christian leaders, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Selim and the Prime Minister's Advisor for Christian Affairs Georges Bakoos, tell us that the Prime Minister's State of Law Alliance (SLA) has recruited six prominent Christian candidates, including themselves, to run in the [...]	2009-10-14 10:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2812	KIDNAPPINGS OF IRAQI CHRISTIANS RAISES CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A series of high profile kidnappings of Iraqi Christians over the past several months in Mosul, Kirkuk, and Baghdad have raised concerns amongst Christian leaders that the community is being deliberately targeted by criminal gangs. Whether the kidnappings are politically motivated [...]	2009-10-19 12:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KJUS PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2813	GOI REINFORCES COMMITMENT TO CHRISTIAN CHURCHES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Over the past several months, the GOI has reinforced its commitment to Iraq's Christian community by inviting the Assyrian Church to relocate its headquarters back to Baghdad and by returning schools expropriated during the Saddam-era back to the Chaldean Church. At [...]	2009-10-19 12:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2911	LEADER OF SABEAN-MANDEANS SAYS COMMUNITY UNDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The leader of Iraq's Sabean-Mandean community, Sheikh Sittar Hillo, tells us that the Mandeans have received new death threats from extremist elements over the past ten days and that 10 Mandeans have been murdered over the past year. Hillo complained that the GOI has been neglige [...]	2009-10-31 15:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KJUS PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD3154	COMPENSATION FINALIZED TO REPAIR "HEART" OF IRAQ'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 20, a compensation agreement in the amount of USD $981,405 was finalized between MNF-I and the Chaldean Church of Iraq for rents incurred from the use of and damages caused to the Babel College seminary that Coalition forces occupied from March 1, 2007 until November 5 [...]	2009-12-07 12:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD3259	A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES MEK, MINORITIES AND LGBT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on December 14 with NEA A/S Feltman, the Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Selim, expressed her belief that her Ministry has made progress in inculcating a greater respect for human rights throughout Iraqi society, but that the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) remain proble [...]	2009-12-17 12:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF IZ
09BAGHDAD507	NAJAF: GOVERNOR OPTIMISTIC ON U.S.-IRAQI [...] (C) In a February 23 meeting, Najaf Governor As,ad abu Gulal appeared upbeat about the January 31 provincial election results and the Iraqi-U.S. relationship. Once the election results are certified, he expects the Provincial Council to be seated quickly and confided the Council may ask him [...]	2009-02-26 15:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KIRF IZ
09BAGHDAD578	IRAQ'S MINORITIES [...] (U) Summary: Iraq's minorities have a long and colorful history in the "Land Between the Two Rivers." While their numbers have declined significantly in recent years, those who remain contribute significantly to the cultural and political fabric of Iraq. Most minority communities are loca [...]	2009-03-05 17:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI IZ
09BAKU287	AZERBAIJAN: RELEASE OF IMPRISONED JOURNALIST [...] (U) Imprisoned opposition journalist Mirza Sakit (Sakit Zahidov) was released from the prison the morning of April 9. Zahidov benefited from an amnesty bill proposed by First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva, also a member of parliament, although his release appeared to be complicated by administrative d [...]	2009-04-10 03:43:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF AJ
09BAKU415	AZERBAIJAN: HEAD OF STATE COMMITTEE FOR WORK WITH [...] Summary: POLOFF met with Hidayat Orucov, head of the State Committee for Works with Religious Structures (SCWRS) in April to discuss his role in leading the Government of Azerbaijan (GOAJ) delegation to the Alliance of Civilizations (AOC) event in Turkey on 06-07 April 2009. The primary pur [...]	2009-05-21 07:08:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM AJ
09BAKU507	AZERBAIJAN: UPDATE ON THE HUMAN DIMENSION [...] (C) Summary: On June 9 poloff hosted a meeting of western embassies and international organizations including the EU (Council and Commission),the OSCE and the Council of Europe accredited in Baku in order to discuss a wide range of issues related to democracy and human rights-- the human di [...]	2009-06-24 07:14:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KIRF AJ
09BAKU731	HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES ROUNDUP, AUGUST 25-SEPTEMBER 11 [...] (U) This cable is part of a regular series that will summarize major ongoing human rights issues in Azerbaijan. This series aims to pull together many different sources of information into one readable biweekly summary of human rights cases, with the aim of giving a fuller picture of Azerbaija [...]	2009-09-11 12:42:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KIRF AJ
09BAMAKO172	IN FOOTBALL STADIUM FULL OF FOLLOWERS, ROCK STAR [...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 15 celebration of the Muslim holiday of Mawloud at one of Bamako's largest football stadiums, imam and preacher Cherif Ousmane Madani Haidara praised U.S. support for Mali's Muslim community before a crowd of 35 to 40,000 followers. Haidara, who routinely attract [...]	2009-03-20 07:40:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCOR KDEM KISL KIRF ML
09BAMAKO267	MALI'S ONLY ISLAMIC POLITICAL PARTY FALLS ON HARD [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-30 12:28:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KISL KDEM KIRF ML
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN288	OVERVIEW OF BRUNEI'S HAJJ PILGRIMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Brunei (GoB) is committed to supporting the Hajj pilgrimage for Bruneian citizens, including recent converts to Islam. As Brunei's pilgrims return, it is useful to highlight how the GoB supports the annual Hajj pilgrimage. This year, there were 766 official Bru [...]	2009-12-04 06:41:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KISL KIRF BX
09BASRAH12	BASRA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: In two separate meetings, REO discussed local Christian-minority issues with Chaldean Father Emad Aziz al-Banna. Emad, de facto leader of the Christian community in Basra, expressed great satisfaction that Christians now have a designated seat on the Provincial Council (PC). Th [...]	2009-03-04 13:06:00	REO Basrah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KIRF IZ
09BEIJING1055	XINJIANG: NO EVIDENCE OBSERVED OF MEDIA-REPORTED [...] (C) Summary: Despite rumors of arrests of underground or terrorism-related religious practitioners, the overall atmosphere in Xinjiang seemed more relaxed than on previous PolOff trips in advance of and just following the 2008 Olympics (Refs A and B),with no checkpoints and fewer propaganda p [...]	2009-04-21 06:13:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PREL PGOV KIRF CH
09BEIJING1064	BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON HIGH-LEVEL [...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing April 17, German Ambassador Michael Schaefer told the group that a Bundestag delegation had been able to hold a dinner meeting with Charter '08 writers and signers after the German Embassy informed the MFA and asked the Chinese government [...]	2009-04-21 09:39:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF EFIN ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING1094	APRIL 23 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: Yasukuni Shrine, Dalai Lama, [...] Key points at the April 23 MFA press briefing: -- A "correct and proper handling" of historic issues is the bedrock of Sino-Japanese relations, and Japan should take appropriate steps to safeguard the relationship following Prime Minister Taro Aso's sending an offering to the Yasukuni Shrine. [...]	2009-04-23 09:35:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF CH JA FR KN KS
09BEIJING1247	BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON DPRK, GTMO [...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing May 8, French DCM Nicholas Chapuis reported that State Councilor Dai Bingguo told visiting former French President Chirac that the West would not gain from more sanctions on North Korea. Dai reportedly said that "the lever of economic d [...]	2009-05-08 10:39:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING1711	SWEDISH DIPLOMAT DECLARED PNG IN POSSIBLE [...] (C) Helena Reitberger, First Secretary at the Swedish Embassy in Beijing, told Poloff June 23 that she had been declared persona non grata (PNG) by the Chinese government and was required to depart China no later than June 30. She said she had been called in by the MFA and informed of the dec [...]	2009-06-23 13:24:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF SW CH
09BEIJING176	PROSPECTS FOR SINO-EU RELATIONS IN 2009 [...] (C) Summary: The cancellation of the China-EU Summit, slated for December 1, was the culmination of a year of poor relations between China and France, according to European Embassy contacts. Since France ceded the rotating EU Presidency to the Czech Republic on January 1, however, China has [...]	2009-01-21 09:05:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF XG EZ CH
09BEIJING177	EU'S TAKE ON THE SINO-EU STRATEGIC DIALOGUE: [...] (C) Summary: In contrast to previous years, the January 19 Sino-EU Strategic Dialogue was surprisingly productive, according to the Czech Embassy. After an initial Chinese diatribe on Tibet, the remainder of the dialogue was open, friendly, and "more than just talking points." Though the fo [...]	2009-01-21 09:14:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF XG EZ TW CH
09BEIJING1802	PRC DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE DALAI LAMA VISIT [...] (C) PRC Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei met with Acting DCM Bill Weinstein the evening of June 29 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver a demarche protesting the possibility of a visit to the United States by the Dalai Lama in order to meet with senior U.S. officials. VFM He, who spea [...]	2009-06-30 10:51:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF CH
09BEIJING203	TIBETAN "SERF EMANCIPATION DAY" DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) The Charge delivered reftel points to MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang on January 22. The "Serf Emancipation Day" holiday, the Charge stressed, would not serve to improve the situation in Tibet and instead would only exacerbate tensions. [...]	2009-01-22 12:23:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF CH
09BEIJING2062	BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON XINJIANG, [...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing July 17, French Ambassador Ladsous reported that during French National Day, he spoke with a Chinese Vice Minister who said Xinjiang was "just like Tibet" and implied France "best keep quiet." On Rio Tinto, Ladsous reported that he hea [...]	2009-07-20 09:31:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING2383	RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE ON THE CHINESE WEB [...] (SBU) Searches for online discussion of religion on the Chinese Internet from June to August revealed a robust discourse on religious doctrine and practice on Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist websites, discussion forums, and blogs as well as on mainstream commercial portals. Chinese religious [...]	2009-08-18 12:05:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL CH
09BEIJING2492	XINJIANG: INCREASED ETHNIC TENSIONS AND HIGH [...] (C) Summary: Ethnic tension between Han Chinese and Uighurs has increased dramatically in three southern Xinjiang province cities and in Urumqi since the early- July ethnic violence in the provincial capital, according to local residents. Contacts did not report any increase in restrictions [...]	2009-09-01 11:22:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING2534	BEIJING AND THE DALAI LAMA'S TAIWAN VISIT [...] (C) Summary and Comment: China has made two public statements on the Dalai Lama's ongoing Taiwan visit; the first condemning the trip but blaming it on Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP),the second warning that that the visit is "bound to affect cross-Strait relations." [...]	2009-09-03 11:38:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF CH TW
09BEIJING2573	GANSU AND QINGHAI TIBETANS SAY TENSIONS EASING, [...] (S) Tibetans in Qinghai and Gansu provinces reported that human rights conditions are slowly improving, particularly in Qinghai, though some Tibetan monks and academics complained that they continue to experience pressure to cooperate with government propaganda campaigns. PolOff visited the [...]	2009-09-08 10:52:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING2595	REAL SYMPATHY FOR "FAKE PANCHEN": MANY TIBETANS [...] (S) Tibetan contacts in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces are resentful of Communist Party efforts to force Tibetan Buddhists to accept Gyaincain Norbu as the 11th Panchen Lama. As the "11th Panchen" (born in 1990) grows into adulthood, however, some Tibetans, especially monks, say they sympathize [...]	2009-09-10 11:42:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING2617	BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON JAPANESE [...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing on September 11, Japanese Ambassador Miyamoto stated that while the recent elections in Japan were "significant," he does not expect major changes in Japan's foreign policy. British Ambassador William Ehrman said the United Kingdom was " [...]	2009-09-11 11:57:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING2753	UIGHUR BUSINESSWOMAN DESCRIBES XINJIANG REGION [...] (S) Summary: A Uighur businesswoman and author, who is also a staff member of the Xinjiang Region Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, described mass detentions of Uighurs in the wake of the early-July ethnic violence in Urumqi. She described how she was almost detained August [...]	2009-09-24 09:52:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	PHUM PGOV KIRF CH
09BEIJING2802	TIBET: CHINA URGES CANCELATION OF SPEAKER PELOSI'S [...] (C) Summary: Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei called in the Ambassador September 30 to urge cancellation of House Speaker Pelosi's planned meeting and joint press conference with the Dalai Lama. Tibet, VFM He said, is a "core interest," and such a meeting would impinge upon China's sovereignt [...]	2009-09-30 07:11:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING2946	XINJIANG: URUMQI CAUTIOUSLY CALM AS RIOT TRIALS [...] (C) Summary: During October 19-21 travel to Urumqi, PolOffs confirmed that security measures and troop presence remained high; People's Armed Police, local municipal police, and volunteer security personnel continuously patrolled the city. Most Urumqi residents we spoke to cautiously claimed [...]	2009-10-22 09:02:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL PTER CH
09BEIJING3059	PRC: FAITHFUL FLOCK TO OFFICIAL CHRISTIAN CHURCHES [...] (C) Summary: Regular worshippers at two official Protestant churches in Hebei Province and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region regularly exceed 3,000. Growth in attendance poses new challenges for the official church, particularly in the areas of clergy training and social services. In re [...]	2009-11-05 09:55:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING3073	PRC: BEIJING TARGETS KEY HOUSE CHURCHES [...] (C) Summary: Recent developments suggest that the Beijing municipal government is increasing its scrutiny and harassment of certain well-known unofficial house churches and house church leaders. The authorities dismissed a central government research institute scholar, allegedly for his ties [...]	2009-11-09 11:17:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PTER KIRF CH
09BEIJING3081	PRC: HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS RAISED WITH MFA IO DDG [...] (C) Summary: In a November 10 meeting with MFA human rights official Shen Yongxiang, PolMinCouns raised U.S. concerns regarding the two-year, pre-trial detention of American citizen Dr. Feng Xue on state secrets charges, PRC policies in Tibet and Xinjiang including recent executions there, the [...]	2009-11-10 11:13:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CASC CH
09BEIJING3124	BEIJING HOUSE CHURCH FINDS TEMPORARY MEETING [...] (C) Summary: The Beijing municipal government and Shouwang house church leaders reached an agreement for the church to rent a temporary meeting space for its November 15 service. PolOff visited the site of the November 15 service and observed no confrontations between worshipers and surveill [...]	2009-11-16 10:18:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING3150	TIBET: STAFFDEL JANNUZI DISCUSSES POTENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: In a November 9 meeting with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Member Frank Jannuzi, Tibetan poet and blogger Woeser decried the environmental degradation of the Tibetan plateau caused by unregulated mining, which she accused of both polluting rivers and increasing ethnic [...]	2009-11-20 10:21:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SENV PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING419	TIBET: SITUATION "FAR FROM NORMAL," BUT REPEAT OF [...] (C) A repeat of the spring 2008 unrest in Tibetan areas of China is unlikely this year given the extremely tight security blanketing Lhasa and other Tibetan communities, according to several Beijing- based observers. Tensions in Tibetan areas, however, remain high as the 50th anniversary of t [...]	2009-02-18 12:41:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF IN CH
09BEIJING483	TIBET TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGNERS LIKELY [...] (C) PRC authorities are barring most foreigners from traveling to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and many Tibetan areas outside the TAR, though the Chinese government has made no official announcement of this policy. One American contact with a long- standing TAR travel permit was recently [...]	2009-02-25 10:31:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CASC PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING631	EMBASSY EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 11 meeting with MFA International Organizations Department Deputy Director General Shen Yongxiang, PolMinCouns expressed concern about human rights violations in China's Tibetan areas and urged China to engage in substantive dialogue with the Dalai Lama's representativ [...]	2009-03-11 11:52:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF PGOV CH
09BEIJING632	TIBET: MFA COMPLAINS ABOUT CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: In a March 11 meeting with A/DCM, the MFA protested a recently introduced House of Representatives resolution on Tibet and urged the administration to prevent its passage. Noting that the U.S. Congress is a separate branch of government, A/DCM replied that the United States is [...]	2009-03-11 12:25:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF CASC CH
09BEIJING649	ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL: PROVINCIAL NPC DELEGATIONS [...] (C) Demonstrating the universality of the axiom, "all politics is local," National People's Congress deputies this past week used "provincial discussion sessions," many of which were open to the media and EmbOffs, to push parochial agendas and projects, denounce separatism, support government [...]	2009-03-12 13:52:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON EFIN SOCI ELAB PREL KIRF CH

09BEIJING778	SARKOZY-HU MEETING AT G-20 STILL A POSSIBILITY [...] (C) Summary: A meeting between the Chinese and French Presidents at the London G-20 summit is still a possibility despite press reports to the contrary, according to a French Embassy contact. However, Chinese insistence on France taking "concrete steps" to resolve the continuing contretemps [...]	2009-03-25 09:27:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KIRF CH FR SF
09BEIJING828	TIBET: ON EVE OF "SERF EMANCIPATION DAY," HEAVY [...] (C) On the eve of China's "Serf Emancipation Day" on March 28, PRC security forces continued to blanket Tibet and the predominantly Tibetan areas of Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan provinces to preclude outbreaks of mass unrest. Following the relatively uneventful passage of the 50th anniversary of [...]	2009-03-27 11:10:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09BEIJING880	CHRISTIANITY: UNIVERSITY STUDENTS "MORE OPEN" TO [...] (C) Summary: Most Peking University students had an "objective" attitude toward Christianity, suggesting that religious tolerance had "increased" in China, according to a recent survey conducted by a professor at the university. The professor told PolOff his survey found that four percent of [...]	2009-04-02 08:33:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF CH HK TW
09BEIRUT1199	2009 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and report to MFA Americas Desk Officer Reina Charbel on October 26. Charbel advised that the report would be shared with relevant GOL offices and said that the GOL remains committed to the principles of religious freedom and tolerance. 2. (SBU) React [...]	2009-11-04 10:02:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV OPRC KIRF KPAO LE
09BELGRADE1354	SERBIA: PATRIARCH PAVLE PASSES AWAY [...] (SBU) Patriarch Pavle, the revered 95-year old head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC),passed away in his sleep on November 15. His death after more than two years of hospitalization triggered an outpouring of emotion, and the government announced three days of mourning to be followed b [...]	2009-11-16 16:24:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SR KV
09BELGRADE1356	SERBIA: PATRIARCH PAVLE PASSES AWAY [...] (SBU) Patriarch Pavle, the revered 95-year old head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC),passed away in his sleep on November 15. His death after more than two years of hospitalization triggered an outpouring of emotion, and the government announced three days of mourning to be followed b [...]	2009-11-16 18:50:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SR KV
09BELGRADE1512	SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH: A PRIMER [...] (SBU) The Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) is the largest and most influential religious institution in Serbia. It also is the most privileged of the seven "traditional" religious communities recognized by the 2006 law on religion. Public opinion polls consistently demonstrate that the Church i [...]	2009-12-18 16:01:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF SR
09BELGRADE217	SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ASSERTS ITSELF IN SERBIAN POLITICS [...] (SBU) With the May session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) approaching, 94 year-old Patriarch Pavle remains hospitalized and incapacitated. As during the November session, debate about Pavle's succession, and perhaps another movement to unseat him, likely w [...]	2009-03-13 13:46:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SR KV
09BELGRADE275	VOJVODINA SERBIAN ORTHODOX BISHOP SAYS CHURCH NEEDS TO [...] (SBU) Bishop Irinej Bulovic, Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Novi Sad and Backa in Vojvodina, spoke to the Ambassador March 25 about the future of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Irinej highlighted the importance of electing a new Patriarch and reaching out to other religious communities. Irinej's w [...]	2009-03-30 11:31:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SR
09BELGRADE467	SERBIA: PATRIARCH REMAINS BUT SYNOD REVAMPED [...] (SBU) During its annual spring session from May 14-22, the Holy Assembly of Bishops (Sabor) of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) stood firm in its stance that ailing Patriarch Pavle should fulfill his lifetime appointment. The Sabor also confirmed that Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and [...]	2009-06-01 11:48:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SR KV
09BELGRADE507	SERBIA: PRESEVO VALLEY ISLAMIC COMMUNITY RETAINS KOSOVO [...] (SBU) Despite strained relations between Belgrade and Pristina following Kosovo's February 2008 declaration of independence, the Islamic community in the South Serbian region of the Presevo Valley has been able to maintain its historically strong ties with the Kosovo Islamic Community. Accord [...]	2009-06-12 14:57:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF KV SR
09BERLIN1172	SECURITY SERVICES ON ALERT AFTER AL QAIDA VIDEOS [...] SUMMARY: German security services are on alert following the appearance of two new Al Qaida videos featuring a dual German-Moroccan citizen who threatens Germany with repercussions if German voters do not vote in the upcoming federal elections for a new government that will withdraw German fo [...]	2009-09-21 16:59:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL GM
09BERLIN333	CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY VS. BERLIN DISTRICT - THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-20 15:26:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	GM KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL
09BERLIN845	ISLAM CONFERENCE ENDS WITH HIGH MARKS FROM [...] (C) The Islam Conference ended with its fourth and final meeting on June 25 with supporters and critics of the conference representing a diverse Muslim community calling for its continuation, citing the importance of the dialogue that was begun. Interior Minister Schaeuble (CDU),who initiat [...]	2009-07-13 16:09:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL
09BERLIN864	JEHOVAH,S WITNESSES OPTIMISTIC ABOUT SECURING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany have almost reached the finish line in their efforts to become a "corporation under public law" in all of Germany's 16 federal states. Eleven federal states (Bavaria, Berlin, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony, Thuringia, [...]	2009-07-16 13:21:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	GM KIRF PGOV PREL PHUM
09BERLIN993	GERMANY'S FEDERAL STATES WRESTLE WITH INTRODUCTION [...] (SBU) This cable provides an overview of German state programs to introduce Islamic religious education at high school and university levels. Since the 3rd plenary meeting of the German Islam Conference in June 2008, Germany's federal states -- with varying degrees of engagement and success [...]	2009-08-13 16:08:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	GM KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM
09BISHKEK1060	KYRGYZSTAN: EMBASSY HOSTS IFTAR DINNER [...] (SBU) On September 17, Grand Mufti Murataaly Aji Jumanov presided over an Embassy-hosted Iftar dinner attended by leaders of the Muslim and non-Muslim communities. The Mufti expressed his gratitude to the Embassy for organizing the event that brought leaders of different religious communities [...]	2009-09-18 10:19:00	Embassy Bishkek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV PREL KG
09BISHKEK43	Kyrgyz President Signs Restrictive Religion Law [...] (U) Summary: On January 12, President Bakiyev signed a restrictive law on religion, marking a significant change in the Kyrgyz Government's relations with religious organizations. The new law, passed by Parliament in November (Reftel),raises the minimum number of members required for registr [...]	2009-01-13 09:59:00	Embassy Bishkek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF KG
09BISHKEK511	KYRGYZ SUPREME COURT REDUCES SENTENCES AMID CLAIMS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 20, the Kyrgyz Supreme Court reduced the sentences of 32 citizens convicted of numerous charges, to include the spreading of ethnic and religious hatred, arising from an October 1 melee in the southern Kyrgyz city of Nookat. A Kyrgyz Ombudsman's office commission document [...]	2009-05-28 08:34:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KIRF PHUM KG
09BISHKEK675	RESTRICTING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN KYRGYZSTAN [...] (C) Summary: Six months have passed since Kyrgyzstan adopted a restrictive law on religious organizations (reftel). An embassy survey of government officials and religious leaders revealed that the new law has only been partially implemented. Government officials said that a working group h [...]	2009-06-24 11:28:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KIRF KG
09BISHKEK677	KYRGYZ GOVERNMENT TARGETS FOREIGN MISSIONARIES [...] (C) Summary: As the Kyrgyz government begins to implement the new religious organizations law (reftels),foreign missionaries have faced increasing difficulties, including deportations and the denial of essential documentation. At last count, three foreigners were asked to leave the country, [...]	2009-06-24 11:34:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KIRF PHUM KG
09BISHKEK885	KYRGYZSTAN'S JEWISH COMMUNITY: THE LONG HISTORY [...] (SBU) Summary: Long gone are the days of a robust and vibrant Jewish community in Kyrgyzstan. Like in many former Soviet republics, most of the Jewish population has immigrated to Israel, Canada, or the United States. However, the Jewish community members who have chosen to remain, approxima [...]	2009-08-06 09:08:00	Embassy Bishkek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV PREL KG
09BOGOTA3557	KOGUI SITUATION PROMPTS DEBATE ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM VS. [...] (C) Indigenous Kogui Christian Antanacio Moscote told us 28 Christians were detained by the Gonawindua Tayrona Organization (OGT),the governing body of the Sierra Nevada indigenous reserve, for failing to observe traditional religious rites. Moscote said traditional Koguis were willing to coe [...]	2009-12-16 15:31:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF CO
09BRASILIA1300	BRAZIL ON AHMADINEJAD, IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM, AND [...] (U) Paragraphs 2 and 8 contain Mission Brazil action request. 2. (C) Summary and Action Request. With Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's November 23 visit approaching, President Lula has not adopted a position on the IAEA (P5 1) Geneva proposal or the Iran nuclear program as a whole [...]	2009-11-06 12:54:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KIRF KNNP CVIS BR IR
09BRASILIA375	"DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" RESOLUTION AT THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) First Secretary Carlos Eduardo Da Cunha Oliveira, in the Division of Human Rights of the Ministry of Exterior told poloff on March 25 that Brazil would abstain and offer an explanation of its vote. 2. (SBU)Oliveira explained that the Defamation of Religion Resolution underwent some ch [...]	2009-03-26 18:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF
09BRUSSELS1416	EXAMINING INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN EU HUMAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A delegation from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF),an independent US government commission established by Congress to monitor religious freedom worldwide and make policy recommendations to the executive and legislative branches, met with EU experts [...]	2009-10-22 10:43:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV PHUM EUN
09BRUSSELS1656	CHALLENGES WITH CHINA DISCUSSED AT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The recent EU-China human rights dialogue dominated discussions during the December 4 human rights exchange (HRE) on China. Participants from the EU, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, Norway, Canada and the U.S. also discussed efforts to mainstre [...]	2009-12-09 14:38:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF EU
09BRUSSELS45	EP PRESIDENT POTTERING ON GAZA, ENERGY, AND [...] (U) During a January 7 meeting with Ambassador Silverberg, Hans-Gert Pottering, President of the European Parliament, discussed the Israel-Gaza crisis, the Russia-Ukraine energy dispute, and freedom of religion in the Middle East. Pottering requested the meeting with the Ambassador in order [...]	2009-01-14 13:53:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KIRF PHUM TK RU UK IS EUN
09BUENOSAIRES397	ARGENTINA ABSTAINS AND CONTINUES EVALUATING [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-03 19:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF UNHRC AR
09CAIRO1059	PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS MINISTER ON CT AND PLACES OF WORSHIP LAWS REF: A. CAIRO 858 B. CAIRO 814 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reason 1.4 (b). [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-11 12:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KIRF KDEM EG
09CAIRO1061	REACTION TO THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH FROM RELIGIOUS LEADERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Reaction from the religious leadership in Egypt to the President's June 4 speech has been positive and reflects comments from various sectors of Egyptian society regarding their wish to see tangible outcomes. END SUMMARY 2. (U) The Islamic Research Council (IRC) of the Al-Azhar [...]	2009-06-11 13:50:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO1109	COURT REJECTS CHRISTIAN CONVERT'S IDENTITY [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-16 14:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG
09CAIRO1158	EGYPT - FOLLOW-UP TO THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH PART I- WAY [...] (SBU) Key Points: -- The President's historic June 4speech in Cairo converges with efforts at post and initial discussions with the government of Egypt to refocus Economic Support Fund priorities toward poverty eradication, with special emphasis on improving education and access to opportunity [...]	2009-06-22 13:50:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO1181	NDP INSIDER PRESSING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-23 13:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO1226	HIGH COURT GRANTS CUSTODY TO CHRISTIAN MOTHER, BUT RULES CHILDREN ARE MUSLIMS REF: A. CAIRO 1109 B. CAIRO 485 C. CAIRO 477 D. 07 CAIRO 2622 E. 07 CAIRO 1427 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor William R. Stewart for reason 1.4 (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-30 12:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF SOCI EG
09CAIRO1307	SECURITY FORCES PREVENT COPTIC CEREMONY, [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR),a credible NGO, briefed us July 7 on its fact-finding mission to the village of Ezbet Boushra where sectarian clashes broke out June 21. -- (C) EIPR said the clashes began when security forces prevented village Copts fr [...]	2009-07-09 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO134	IMPRISONED QURANIST BLOGGER RELEASED [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-26 14:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL EG
09CAIRO1415	EGYPT: FOLLOW-UP TO THE CAIRO SPEECH [...] (U) Even before Air Force One departed on June 4, Embassy Cairo began wide-ranging consultations with Egyptian civil-society, private sector, and government leaders focused on implementing President Obama's ideas. Egyptians are proud and excited that the President chose Cairo as the speech ven [...]	2009-07-22 14:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO1433	MFA LOOKS AHEAD TO THIRD UN EXPERT VISIT, 2010 UPR [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-27 05:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER SENV KIRF KTIP UN EG
09CAIRO1457	EGYPT'S SHI'A CRACKDOWN [...] Key Points -- (C) According to Mohamed al-Darini (ref A),a leader of the Egyptian Shi'a Supreme Council of the Descendants of the Prophet, Egyptian security forces have arrested approximately 300 Shi'a since mid-April. The Council's headquarters has been shut down by authorities. -- ( [...]	2009-07-30 04:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF KISL PTER EG IR
09CAIRO1495	EGYPT'S BAHA'I FRUSTRATED WITH LACK OF PROGRESS ON [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) During a July 28 meeting, leaders of Egypt's Baha'i community reported no progress in obtaining government identification documents. -- (C) According to the Baha'i, following the April 15 issuance by the MoI of a decree establishing procedures for members of "unrecognized" religio [...]	2009-08-03 13:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO1503	FM ABOUL GHEIT ON MUBARAK VISIT, MB, STRATEGIC [...] (C) Key Points: -- FM Aboul Gheit said Egypt's main goal for the upcoming Washington visit was to build "rapport" between the two presidents, emphasizing Egypt's "strategic" relationship with the U.S. and continuing discussion of key regional issues. -- The Muslim Brotherhood remains a "challenge" [...]	2009-08-04 10:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF EG
09CAIRO1556	EGYPT ISSUES ID CARDS TO BAHA'IS [...] (SBU) On August 9, Egypt's Ministry of Interior (MoI) issued national identification cards to two Baha'is, teenage brother and sister Nancy and Imad Hindy. The identity cards include a dash in the field that normally reflects the bearer's religion (with the GoE recognized religions of Islam [...]	2009-08-10 14:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO172	EGYPTIAN COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF RECONVERT [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-01 13:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF SOCI EG
09CAIRO1836	UPDATE ON BLOGGER CASES - SEPTEMBER 2009 [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) Human rights attorney Gamal Eid, who represents all of Egypt's detained bloggers, told us September 15 he had learned through third party sources that prison officials have tortured jailed Coptic blogger Hany Nazir to pressure him to convert to Islam. The prison has not allowed [...]	2009-09-23 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO1848	EMBASSY RAISES HAASSMENT OF EGYPTIAN CONVERTS WTH MFA [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-24 14:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO1850	NDP INSIDER ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS AND LEGISLATION [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On September 17, ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) Shura Council Member Hossam Badrawi told visiting NEA/ELA desk officer and poloff that high turnout in the 2010 parliamentary elections would benefit the NDP over the Muslim Brotherhood. -- (C) He called for a numbe [...]	2009-09-24 14:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO1918	EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT PUSHES BACK ON THE NIQAB [...] Key points: -- (C) Leadership of both Islamic and secular educational institutions are increasingly critical of the niqab, a full facial veil exposing only the wearer's eyes, and have announced or intend soon to announce restrictions. These restrictions fall far short of a general prohibition. -- ( [...]	2009-10-08 06:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL KIRF SOCI EG
09CAIRO1925	UPDATE: PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS MINISTER ON [...] (C) Key Points: -- Minister of State for Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Moufid Shehab confirmed that the new counter-terrorism law would be submitted to parliament by March 2010 in order to go into effect before the Emergency Law expires in May 2010. However, internal disagreements r [...]	2009-10-08 16:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PRGOV PTER KIRF KDEM EG
09CAIRO1984	EGYPTIAN CONVERT CONVICTED OF FORGERY [...] (SBU) On October 14, a Cairo criminal court convicted Einas Refaat Mohamed Hassan, a convert from Islam to Christianity, of forgery for possessing a false national identity card. Hassan apparently used documents formerly belonging to a deceased Christian woman to obtain a national identity card lis [...]	2009-10-19 14:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL EG
09CAIRO202	SALAFISM ON THE RISE IN EGYPT [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-04 14:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL PTER KIRF SOCI SCUL PGOV EG
09CAIRO2058	EGYPT: INAUGURAL ARAB WORLD FORUM SEEKS SENIOR USG [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-29 13:33:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO2157	POPULATION MINISTER FOCUSING ON FAMILY PLANNING [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-17 13:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN KIRF ELAB EG
09CAIRO2164	ACTIVISTS BELIEVE POLICE BRUTALITY CONTINUES [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-17 15:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KIRF EG
09CAIRO2176	EGYPT'S MUFTI ON NIQAB CONTROVERSY [...] Key Points -- (C) In a November 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gom'aa said that while the niqab (full-facial veil) is not a requirement in Islam, women should have the right to wear it if they chose. -- (C) Commenting on sectarian strife in Egypt, the Mufti said that formal [...]	2009-11-19 10:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL SOCI KIRF KPAO KWMN EG
09CAIRO2178	COPTIC CHOIR BOYS UNCOVERED AS INTENDING IMMIGRANTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Cairo Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) uncovered a scheme to have young men pose as Coptic choir boys in order to be issued visas for travel to the United States. The applicants used bogus letters from churches in Egypt and the United States to facilitate the fraud. Egyptian State [...]	2009-11-19 11:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD KIRF CVIS CMGT KOCI ASEC PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO2190	ADVERSE INFORMATION FOUND FOR ASYLUM REQUESTS [...] (SBU) As per ref A, A/RSO-I is providing the following adverse information for the asylum requests of Saleh, Samouel Ishak Koryakos (D/POB: 13-Sep-1986, Menia, Egypt),Botros, Antonious Thrwat Shouky (D/POB: 11-Sep-1986, Menia, Egypt),Dief, Kerolos Adly Roshdy (D/POB: 01-Jan-1991, Menia, Egypt). [...]	2009-11-23 12:41:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC KFRD CVIS KIRF PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO2205	BLIND COPTIC GIRLS' CHOIR USED FOR ALIEN SMUGGLING [...] (SBU) Summary: The Cairo Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) has identified seven individuals who were successfully smuggled to the United States through their inclusion with a church group of blind Coptic girl singers. The church group was organized and sponsored by an Egyptian-American man in the Uni [...]	2009-11-25 14:44:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD KIRF CVIS CMGT KOCI ASEC PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO2229	EGYPTIAN QURANIST DETAINED, RELEASED [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) On November 18, security officials at Cairo International Airport detained Abdel Latif Mohamed Saied, a member of the heterodox Islamic Quranist movement, when he attempted to board a flight for Khartoum. -- (C) On November 24, Embassy Cairo raised Saied's detention with Deputy [...]	2009-12-02 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL EG
09CAIRO2277	GOE UPR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT FOCUSES ON COMMITMENTS, BUT IS SHORT ON DETAILS REF: A. CAIRO 2164 B. CAIRO 1948 C. CAIRO 1925 D. CAIRO 1836 E. CAIRO 1433 F. CAIRO 814 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor Donald A. Blome for reason 1.4 (b). [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-10 12:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF KTIP CT UN EG
09CAIRO44	PROGRESS ON WOMEN'S ISSUES, DESPITE SOME GOE [...] (C) Summary and comment: The past six months have seen significant progress on women's issues in Egypt. Recent advances for women on combating female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual harassment and assault have stood out in an environment characterized by backsliding on issues such as pre [...]	2009-01-12 09:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI KWMN KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO453	EGYPT'S BAHA'I WIN LEGAL BATTLE [...] KEY POINTS - (SBU) On March 16, Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court dismissed a legal challenge filed by an Islamist lawyer that had heretofore blocked the implementation of a January 2008 court decision directing the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to issue identification documents to members [...]	2009-03-16 15:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM EG
09CAIRO477	EGYPTIAN CONVERT STRUGGLES FOR ACCEPTANCE [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-19 14:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG
09CAIRO485	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DISCUSSION WITH EGYPT'S MFA [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-22 15:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO544	BLOGGERS MOVING FROM ACTIVISM TO BROADENING DISCOURSE AND SELF-EXPRESSION [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-30 13:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF KWMN SOCI EG
09CAIRO547	EGYPTIAN SHI'A LEADER ON RELATIONS WITH GOE, IRAN [...] Key Points: --(C) We met recently with Mohamed al-Darini, leader of the Supreme Council of the Descendants of the Prophet, an Egyptian Shi'a organization. According to al-Darini, there are approximately 60,000 Shi'a in Egypt, not counting Iraqi refugees. --(C) Al-Darini said Egypt's Sh [...]	2009-03-31 11:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF KISL PREF SOCI EG IR IZ
09CAIRO668	EGYPT'S INTERIOR MINISTRY APPROVES ISSUANCE OF [...] KEY POINTS -- (SBU) On April 14, Egypt's Ministry of the Interior (MOI) published a decree in Egypt's Official Gazette authorizing members of "non-recognized religions" (all other than Islam, Christianity and Judaism) to obtain identification cards with a dash in the mandatory religious [...]	2009-04-16 15:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM EG
09CAIRO70	COURTS FINE PRO-GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPERS IN LIBEL [...] (C) On December 21, 2008, a Cairo court ordered the pro-government paper "Al-Ahram" and one of its journalists, Gaber Asfour, to pay 50,000 Egyptian Pounds (8,000 USD) in compensation to Sheikh Youssef El-Bedry for characterizing El-Bedry as a "terrorist" in an August 2007 article. The "Al-Ah [...]	2009-01-14 15:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO713	QURANIST BARRED FROM TRAVEL TO U.S. [...] KEY POINTS: -- (SBU) On April 24, Egyptian security officials prevented Abdel Latif Mohamed Saied from boarding a flight to the United States. Saied, a member of the heterodox Islamic Quranist movement, intended to travel to Washington to participate in the Center for the Study of Islam [...]	2009-04-27 12:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL EG
09CAIRO724	EGYPT:LET'S KILL ALL THE PIGS [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: While Egyptian authorities have been responding to the virus formerly known as Swine Flu (and now known as H1N1) in measured ways -stepping up a mostly moribund program to move swine out of urban areas to the countryside, testing swine and swine workers for the H1N1 v [...]	2009-04-29 08:17:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR KISL KIRF USDA
09CAIRO771	EGYPT'S WAR ON FLUQPIG FARMERS CLASH WITH CULL TEAMS [...] (SBU) Key Points: -- There have been reports of sporadic clashes between pig farmers and GOE culling team as the pig cull in Egypt enters its second week. There is a heavy police presence in the Mokkattum area on Cairo's east side, home to many of the country's backyard pig farms. -- D [...]	2009-05-06 11:13:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO EAGR PGOV ECON KFLU KSTH KSCA KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO810	BOMB EXPLODES OUTSIDE CAIRO CHURCH [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) At approximately 9:45 pm on May 10, a bomb exploded in a car parked near the Cathedral of the Virgin Mary (al-Azraa Miriam) in Cairo's Zeitoun neighborhood (ref A). Police found and destroyed in a controlled explosion a second bomb, also located in a parked car, at app [...]	2009-05-12 13:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV KIRF EG
09CAIRO814	NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] KEY POINTS: -- (U) The quasi-governmental organization, the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR),released its 2008 human rights report on May 6, criticizing the GOE for specific violations and offering 25 recommendations. -- (U) The report criticizes the GOE for human rights violations s [...]	2009-05-13 07:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO887	EGYPT ISSUES DOCUMENTS TO BAHA'IS [...] Key Points -- (SBU) On May 20, the GoE issued birth certificates, containing dashes in the religion field, to two of the three Baha'is who sued the GoE seeking such documents. (ref B) -- (SBU) The third plaintiff, who is seeking a national identification card, has not yet received the [...]	2009-05-20 15:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO892	AMBASSADOR RAISES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, BLOGGERS AND [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In a May 20 meeting with Interior Minister Habib Al-Adly, the Ambassador raised identity documents for Baha'is, and urged the release of a Coptic priest jailed for performing the wedding of a Christian convert who allegedly held forged identity documents. -- (C) The Ambassador u [...]	2009-05-21 12:20:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF CASC EG
09CAIRO930	UPDATE ON BLOGGER CASES [...] KEY POINTS: -- (U) The following bloggers remain in prison: 1) Karim Amer, convicted of insulting Islam and Mubarak, and sentenced to a four-year term in 2007; 2) Musad Abu Fagr, jailed in December 2007 following posts about the Sinai Bedouin's difficulties; 3) Hany Nazir, jailed in October [...]	2009-05-25 14:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI KIRF EG
09CAIRO937	SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S CAIRO VISIT [...] (SBU) Mission Cairo welcomes your visit, the first by a U.S. president to Cairo since President Clinton's in 1990. The Egyptian Government will also warmly welcome you, as will the Egyptian people, who are proud that the U.S. has recognized what they view as Egypt's central role in the Arab [...]	2009-05-26 09:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO945	CONVERSATION WITH EGYPTIAN MUSLIM TELEVANGELIST [...] Key Points: -- (C) According to Moez Massoud, a rising star among Egyptian Muslim televangelists, Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) are competing fiercely for influence among Egypt's youth. -- (C) Massoud said Salafist influence - which has been present in Egypt since the movements founding [...]	2009-05-27 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KIRF KPAO SOCI EG
09CARACAS1014	SAMBIL LA CANDELARIA MALL IN COMPLETE LIMBO [...] (C) According to Bernardo Weininger (strictly protect throughout),lawyer and confidant of the Cohen family which in turn owns the Sambil chain of malls, the Sambil La Candelaria project is in complete limbo. (Note: On December 21, 2008, President Chavez ordered Jorge Rodriguez, mayor of th [...]	2009-08-04 20:31:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KIRF VE
09CARACAS135	CARACAS SYNAGOGUE ATTACKED, CHAVEZ BLAMES [...] (C) Summary. A group of unidentified armed gunmen vandalized a prominent Caracas synagogue during the late night-early morning hours of January 30-31. The intruders appeared to have planned the attack well, defeating the synagogue's security system and subduing two contract guards. They not [...]	2009-02-02 21:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL ASEC VE IS
09CARACAS1391	VENEZUELAN REACTION TO THE 2009 IRF REPORT [...] (C) Summary: Reaction to the 2009 International Religious Freedom (IRF) report has been muted in Venezuela, despite initial press headlines implying that the report grouped Venezuela and Cuba together. A short October 28 article in the government paper Diario Vea said "all religions enjoy t [...]	2009-10-30 20:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM PGOV KIRF VE
09CARACAS184	GBRV DETAINS 11 PERSONS FOR ATTACK ON SYNAGOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan authorities arrested eleven persons over the February 7-8 weekend in response to the January 31 Caracas synagogue attack (Ref A). Five officers and a sub-inspector in the Caracas Metropolitan Police Force, as well as a detective from Venezuela's national criminal po [...]	2009-02-10 22:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC VE IS
09CARACAS195	CHAVEZ REFUSES FORMER POLISH PRESIDENT WALESA'S [...] (C) Summary: With five days to go until the February 15 constitutional referendum on removing official term limits, Chavez is trying to marginalize and discredit any potential critics. He has again denied democracy activist and former Polish President Lech Walesa entrance into Venezuela -- [...]	2009-02-11 22:04:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KIRF VE PL
09CARACAS281	ANTI-SEMITISM UPDATE - TENSIONS ABOUND ONE MONTH [...] (C) Summary: Anti-Semitism continues to be a problem in Venezuela despite the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (GBRV's) pledge to address this issue in the wake of the January 31 attack on the Caracas synagogue. On February 26, unknown assailants threw a small explosive [...]	2009-03-05 18:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VE
09CARACAS309	STUDENT LEADER NIXON MORENO FLEES HOLY SEE MISSION [...] (C) Summary. Early on March 9, former student leader Nixon Moreno fled the Holy See Mission in Caracas, where he had been sheltered for almost two years. The 35-year-old opposition activist was granted political asylum from the Holy See in June 2008, following his plea for political asylum a [...]	2009-03-11 15:23:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KDEM VE VT
09CARACAS486	GBRV STEPS UP PRESSURE ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Catholic Conference of Bishops (CEV) issued a highly critical April 6 communique warning that Venezuela's democratic system is "at risk of collapse". In response, President Chavez (using parallels from liberation theology) insinuated on Easter Sunday in his nati [...]	2009-04-17 16:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF KDEM VE VT
09CARACAS50	CATHOLIC BISHOPS CRITICIZE INDEFINITE REELECTION [...] (C) Summary: The Catholic Conference of Bishops (CEV) issued a January 13 communique sharply criticizing President Chavez's proposal to change the 1999 Constitution to eliminate term limits for all elected positions. The CEV expressed doubts about the legality of Chavez's upcoming referendum [...]	2009-01-15 14:32:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL VE
09CARACAS764	CHAVISTAS PROTEST AGAINST MIRANDA GOVERNOR, [...] (C) Summary: The Charge d'Affaires (CDA) called off a planned visit June 17 to Miranda State after learning of preparations for a United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) protest the same day in front of the opposition Governor's mansion. Embassy had notified the Ministry of Foreign Affa [...]	2009-06-18 22:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KIRF VE
09CASABLANCA21	MEETING WITH CASABLANCA POLICE PREFECT [...] (U) On February 5th, 2009 Consul General and RSO Casablanca met with Police Prefect Mustapha Mazouni at Casablanca's Prefecture to discuss the security situation in Casablanca. Prefect Mazouni, who requested the meeting, began by outlining his view of the current security climate in Casablan [...]	2009-02-06 17:00:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EAGR KIRF MO PGOV SNAR
09CASABLANCA228	EXPATRIATE CHRISTIANS EXPELLED FOR ALLEGED PROSELYTIZING [...] (C) Summary: On December 4 a group of Moroccan Christian converts and foreigners gathered in a home in the town of Saidia for a weekend of study and spiritual retreat. Moroccan police raided the house, confiscated personal items and religious material, and detained those present. The Morocc [...]	2009-12-23 12:33:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV ASCH MO
09CHENGDU102	SOUTHWEST CHINA: CONVERSATIONS WITH XICHANG CHRISTIANS [...] (C) Summary: According to Catholic and Protestant church members in the city of Xichang in southern Sichuan Province, urban and rural churches in the area operate relatively freely. The local Catholic community boasts nine priests and 25 nuns, regularly receives priests from South Korea and Ta [...]	2009-06-11 03:21:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF SOCI PGOV CH
09CHENNAI100	BHARAT BALLOT 09: "FORCED CONVERSIONS" FUEL POLITICAL [...] (U) Summary: Political conversations in Karnataka are peppered with references to "forced" or "forcible" conversion. Although the term has been defined in various states' legal statutes and interpreted by the Indian Supreme Court, different religious communities in the state -- particularly H [...]	2009-04-02 06:29:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI IN
09CHENNAI109	BHARAT BALLOT 09: ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN KERALA [...] (SBU) Summary: The 21.6 million voters in the state of Kerala will go to polls on April 16 in the first of five phases of India's national elections. During a road tour of Kerala, we found the Congress party in an upbeat mood expecting to win a majority of the 20 seats that are up for grabs, [...]	2009-04-15 03:54:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF PHUM IN
09CHENNAI112	BHARAT BALLOT 09: ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN KERALA [...] (SBU) Summary: The 21.6 million voters in the state of Kerala will go to polls on April 16 in the first of five phases of India's national elections. During a road tour of Kerala, we found the Congress party in an upbeat mood expecting to win a majority of the 20 seats that are up for grabs, [...]	2009-04-16 00:36:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF PHUM IN
09CHENNAI116	BHARAT BALLOT 09: BJP SITTING PRETTY IN KARNATAKA [...] Summary: On April 23 voters in seventeen districts of the southern state of Karnataka will cast their votes in the state's first phase of voting in India's national elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did exceptionally well in 2004, winning eighteen seats. Congress came in second with [...]	2009-04-23 21:46:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF OTRA IN
09CHENNAI126	HONEST POLITICIAN FACES UPHILL FIGHT IN BANGALORE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent trip to the south Indian state Karnataka, we followed a Congress party candidate as he campaigned through the streets of Bangalore. The candidate's campaign events were modest in size and the reception he received varied based on the location's political leanin [...]	2009-04-30 07:16:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF IN PREL KDEM
09CHENNAI213	DEADLY HINDU-MUSLIM RIOTS HIT MYSORE [...] (SBU) Summary: Clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the town of Mysore (in the state of Karnataka, 150 km west of Bangalore) left three dead on July 2. The immediate cause of the riots was the discovery of two pig heads in a building housing a mosque and madrassa (a type of Islamic school). [...]	2009-07-07 03:04:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR IN
09CHENNAI25	HINDU EXTREMISTS ATTACK WOMEN IN MANGALORE PUB [...] (U) Summary: Approximately 40 male Hindu extremists on January 24 forced their way into a pub in Mangalore, Karnataka (300 km west of Bangalore) and attacked several women customers for "drinking in public and acting in an obscene manner." Local police took action only two days later, arrestin [...]	2009-01-30 08:35:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF IN
09CHENNAI289	ENGAGING WITH THE KARNATAKA GOVERNMENT ON RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) The Consul General (CG) met with Karnataka's Chief Minister and Governor separately on August 31. Chief Minister Yediyurappa spent most of the meeting reiterating his state's plea for a U.S. Consulate in Bangalore. He also sought the CG's support for an "investor's summit" that will be [...]	2009-09-09 07:36:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR IN
09CHENNAI327	SOUTH INDIA'S FIRST BJP GOVERNMENT MUDDLES THROUGH A [...] (SBU) Summary: South India's first state government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) teetered on the verge of collapse for nearly two weeks as Karnataka's Chief Minister fought off attempts by the Tourism Minister to unseat him. National-level BJP authorities brokered a truce on Novemb [...]	2009-11-12 07:57:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF IN

09CHENNAI98	BHARAT BALLOT 09: SIX MONTHS LATER, RELIGIOUS MINORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Nearly six months after the anti-Christian violence that drew international media attention (refs C-E),Christian groups in the seaside town of Mangalore, Karnataka are still nervous. While the media attention has died down and large-scale violence like what transpired in Septe [...]	2009-04-02 06:21:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI IN
09COLOMBO143	SRI LANKA: CHRISTIAN GROUPS CONCERNED OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 20 and February 2, separate evangelical Christian groups met Ambassador to discuss their concerns regarding the likely passage of "anti-conversion legislation." The legislation's vague language and harsh punishments would infringe on their rights of thought, conscience [...]	2009-02-10 05:17:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF CE
09DAKAR130	RELIGION IN SENEGAL-THE SHIA [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-03 14:40:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS SOCI PINR KDEM KISL KIRF SG
09DAMASCUS806	A SUNNI GAMBIT? PM UTRI'S PROPOSED "NEW" PERSONAL [...] (C) Summary: After provoking another controversial debate on religious freedom and women's issues by attempting to amend the Personal Status Law (PSL) in April, Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al-Utri has again introduced a draft that closely mirrors the current PSL from 1953. Some contacts sugg [...]	2009-11-19 13:09:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL KMPI KWMN SCUL SOCI
09DARESSALAAM372	TANZANIAN MUSLIMS POSITIVE, BUT AWAITING ACTION FOLLOWING [...] SUMMARY: President Obama's Cairo speech to the Muslim world received positive feedback in Tanzania, but Muslims say they are now "waiting for action." Opinion leaders thought the speech "marks the beginning of new relations with the Muslim world" but were reserved awaiting follow-on actions. [...]	2009-06-05 12:16:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KIRF KISL KDEM KPAO TZ
09DARESSALAAM73	TANZANIA'S RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE [...] (U) Summary and Introduction: Tanzania's current religious identification demographics are 62 percent Christian, 35 percent Muslim and three percent other (traditional beliefs, Hindu, Sikh, Baha'i). The Tanzanian state does not gather religious identification census data as a matter of policy [...]	2009-02-04 12:53:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF KISL KDEM KPAO PHUM PGOV TZ
09DHAHRAN14	SHI'A LEADERS MEET WITH KING AFTER MEDINA INCIDENT [...] (C) Key Points: ------------------ -- King Abdullah met with more than 100 Shi'a leaders from Qatif, al-Ahsa, and Medina related to the sectarian clashes at Baqi'a cemetery (ref A). -- Following the meeting, the King announced the immediate release of all 38 detainees involved in the [...]	2009-03-04 15:44:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL	SA PGOV PINR PHUM PREL KDEM KIRF KISL
09DHAHRAN210	SAUDI SHI'A CELEBRATE IMAM AL-MAHDI'S BIRTHDAY [...] (C/NF) The Shi'a of Qatif openly celebrated the birthday of Imam al-Mahdi -- who is recognized by most Shi'a as the twelfth and final (hidden) Imam -- on August 6 with impromptu public plays, free food, and candy for the children. PolOff and two EmbOffs from Riyadh visited Qatif during the fes [...]	2009-08-10 16:02:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SA
09DHAHRAN217	SAUDI PROVINCIAL AUTHORITIES CLOSE SHIA MOSQUES IN [...] (C/NF) During the past year the provincial government in the Eastern Province (EP) has closed five Shia mosques (four Twelver Shia and one Ismaili Shia) in the commercial city of al-Khobar, with the last two being closed in the past two weeks. The provincial government reportedly carried out t [...]	2009-08-15 11:25:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SA
09DHAHRAN219	SHIA BUSINESS LEADERS MAKE A STRONG SHOWING IN AL-AHSA [...] (SBU) In the July 25 al-Ahsa Chamber of Commerce elections, Shia candidates won five of the eight eligible board positions, with the remaining three going to Sunnis. In the previous elections in 2005, the ratio was the reverse in favor of Sunni candidates. One of the Shia victors attributed t [...]	2009-08-19 11:40:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF KISL KDEM SA
09DHAHRAN220	BANNED SAUDI WEBSITE LAUNCHES ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-19 14:28:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KIRF KISL PHUM SA
09DHAHRAN222	BANNED SAUDI WEBSITE LAUNCHES ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION [...] (C/NF) Rasid.com, the popular Arabic-language news website run by a small group of Saudi Shia political activists, launched an English-language version on August 1. The managing editor of Rasid explained that they hope to reach a larger audience with the English-language version. Both the Ara [...]	2009-08-19 15:38:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KIRF KISL PHUM SA
09DHAHRAN246	SAUDI AUTHORITIES CRACK DOWN ON SHIA IN AL-AHSA [...] (C) Saudi authorities have stepped up discriminatory actions against Shia citizens in the Eastern Province (EP) oasis of al-Ahsa over the past year. Contacts point to the governor of al-Ahsa, HH Prince Badr bin Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Saud, as the main force behind the most recent uptick in s [...]	2009-09-16 13:30:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SA
09DHAHRAN258	NAJRAN'S NEW GOVERNOR OFF TO GOOD START BUT CHALLENGED BY [...] (C) The new governor of Najran province on the border with Yemen is viewed as being a serious, business-oriented leader looking to downplay the sectarian differences between the officially recognized Sunni interpretation of Islam and that of the province's majority Ismaili (specifically Sulaima [...]	2009-10-14 07:45:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KIRF PHUM SA YM
09DHAHRAN266	EASTERN PROVINCE SHIA FRUSTRATED [...] (C) Three prominent local Shia report that economic marginalization, combined with religious discrimination, are generating increased frustration in the Eastern Province (EP). This is compounded by a growing generation gap in the Shia community with an impatient younger generation inclined to [...]	2009-11-01 07:34:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KIRF KREL PHUM SA
09DHAHRAN295	SAUDI BORDER CONFLICT WITH YEMEN RAISES FEAR OF SECTARIAN [...] (C) Prominent members of the Eastern Province (EP) Shia community are growing increasingly worried that the conflict in Yemen will spur a backlash against their community. The attitude is prevalent among Shia youth as well. Statements by a Yemeni official, as well as a recent circular issued b [...]	2009-12-19 12:06:00	Consulate Dhahran	SECRET	PGOV KIRF PREL SA YM PINR PHUM
09DHAHRAN40	SAUDI HEZBOLLAH LEADER WARNS OF SECTARIAN VIOLENCE [...] (C/NF) Key Points: --------------------- -- XXXXXXXXXXXX (strictly protect),a popular Shi'a cleric and alleged leader of Saudi Hezbollah, met with PolOff after years of refusing to meet with USG officials (ref A). -- XXXXXXXXXXXX declared that the USG could persuade the SAG to adopt se [...]	2009-03-22 08:19:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SA LE IR PGOV PTER PHUM KIRF KISL KDEM
09DHAHRAN46	SHI'A PROTESTS LEAD TO ARRESTS, INCLUDING TWO AMERICANS [...] (C/NF) Key Points: --------------------- -- On Thursday, March 19 Shi'a from the Awamiyya village in the Qatif oasis conducted a sit-in to protest the SAG's intention of arresting the radical Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who has been in hiding since calling for possible secession from Saudi Arabia [...]	2009-03-25 11:51:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SA KU PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF KISL KDEM
09DHAHRAN8	SHI'A UNREST CONTINUES TO BUILD AFTER THE MEDINA INCIDENT [...] (C) Key Points: ----------------- -- The Shi'a clashes with Saudi security forces in Medina in February have set off a wave of demonstrations, protests, and calls on the government for justice. -- Members of the Shi'a communities from the Eastern Province were involved in the Baqi'a cemet [...]	2009-03-02 16:22:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SA IR LE
09DHAKA297	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DEFAMATION OF RELIGION [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Officer March 23 delivered reftel demarche to Masudur Rahman, Director of the Americas Wing at Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rahman relayed the message to the relevent authority in his Ministry, but did not comment on Bangladesh's expected position on the vote. NO [...]	2009-03-29 03:26:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF UN BG
09DJIBOUTI217	"DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel points to GODJ Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Multilateral Relations Mariam Ahmed Goumaneh March 23. 2. (SBU) Goumaneh said that although Djibouti customarily voted with the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on similar issues, and was very lik [...]	2009-03-23 10:51:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF DJ
09DOHA28	AL-JAZEERA IMAM BLASTS JEWS, U.S., AND ARAB [...] (U) In a Friday, January 9, sermon broadcast on Al Jazeera Arabic, Imam Yousef Al-Qaradawi condemned Jews for spreading "corruption in the land," and for victimizing the Muslim people. He cited the Babylonian Captivity and the Roman conquest as historical examples of God's punishment of Israe [...]	2009-01-13 13:22:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF KISL QA
09DOHA333	CHURCH MEMBERS ORDERED DEPORTED, APPARENTLY FOR [...] (SBU) Based on current information available to Embassy Doha, the Ministry of the Interior has ordered the deportation of 31 American citizens, representing nine families, apparently for proselytizing. American citizen and other Embassy contacts have told us that a group of non-Americans, pe [...]	2009-05-21 10:10:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF CASC QA
09DOHA345	AMBASSADOR PRESSES MINISTER OF STATE OF INTERIOR [...] (C) Ambassador LeBaron and Consular Section Chief Timothy Ponce called May 25th on Minister of State for Interior Affairs Abdullah Khalid Al Thani at his office at the Ministry of Interior (MOI). 2. (C) Referring to his notes, Al Thani stated that some of the U.S. citizens were ordered dep [...]	2009-05-26 12:50:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF CASC QA
09DOHA352	QATAR - DEPORTATIONS DROPPED FOR 31 US CITIZENS [...] (C) Ambassador LeBaron and Consular Section Chief Timothy Ponce called May 28th on Minister of State for Interior Affairs Abdullah Khalid Al Thani at his office at the Ministry of Interior (MOI). 2. (C) Ambassador told Al Thani that all of the Americans involved informed U.S. Embassy staf [...]	2009-05-28 13:29:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF CASC QA
09DOHA665	RELIGIOUS LEADERS DISCUSS INTERFAITH [...] (SBU) More than 250 participants from 59 countries gathered in Doha October 20-21 for the Seventh Annual Conference on Interfaith Dialogue. Among those giving speeches and participating in the panel discussions were Christian clergy, Muslim imams, and Jewish rabbis. There were no representat [...]	2009-11-12 13:09:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF QA
09DOHA723	MFA HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICER PRAISES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (SBU) P/E Chief Rice, accompanied by PolOff Caudill, met with MFA Human Rights Officer Shaykha Sumaya Al Thani on December 15 to discuss the 2009 International Religious Freedom Report for Qatar. Also present on the Qatari side were MFA Human Rights Department Legal Counsel Dr. Mohammad Saee [...]	2009-12-16 10:35:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KIRF QA
09DUSHANBE201	JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES LOSE AGAIN, BUT PRESS ON [...] (SBU) On February 12, Tajikistan's Supreme Military Court denied the Jehovah's Witnesses' appeal of the government's ban on their activities (reftel). The following day, the Ambassador met with Greg Olds and Mario Moreno, the group's U.S. lawyers who had flown in for the hearing. 2. (S [...]	2009-02-18 11:24:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF TI
09DUSHANBE357	EMBASSY DUSHANBE REACHES OUT TO RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: EmbOffs and William Trigg, USAID's Regional Society and State Advisor based in Bishkek, travelled to the Ferghana Valley in Northern Tajikistan to conduct outreach events with young people and members of the religious community. EmbOffs met students at a madrassa and worshippers [...]	2009-03-25 08:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL TI
09DUSHANBE406	IF I WERE A RICH MAN - HASSAN ASADULLOZODA DONATES A [...] (SBU) Summary: The local and international press have reported that presidential brother in law - and purported mensch - Hassan Asadullozoda donated a building to Tajikistan's Jewish Community for use as a synagogue. The reports have painted the donation as an attempt to atone for destroying t [...]	2009-04-01 12:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF TI
09DUSHANBE575	TAJIKISTAN'S NEW SYNAGOGUE: BUSINESS, CENTRAL ASIA STYLE [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-14 11:16:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF KPAO SCUL ASEC TI
09DUSHANBE653	TAJIKISTAN ARRESTS MUSLIM MISSIONARIES: ARE THEY [...] (C) Summary: In April and May 2009, Tajik law enforcement officials arrested members of the Jamoat-i-Tabligh, a Sunni missionary group. Most of those arrested have been released, but an unknown number remain in custody, and it is unclear when or if criminal proceedings will be initiated agains [...]	2009-05-29 04:06:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF ASEC TI
09DUSHANBE688	TAJIK IMAMS RETURN FROM UNITED STATES WITH NEW OUTLOOK ON [...] (U) Summary: On June 1 CAO and PolOffs met with Domullo Numonkhon and Mullo Abdurahim, two of the five independent Tajik imams who traveled to the United States on the International Visitor Leadership Program. Numonkhon and Abdurahim are both conservative, and both had criticized U.S. foreign [...]	2009-06-04 12:38:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KPAO KIRF KISL PINR TI
09DUSHANBE725	UNIVERSITY HIJAB BAN: STUDENTS SPEAK OUT, OFFER VIEWS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Administrators at the National University of Tajikistan in Dushanbe recently expelled several students for failing to comply with a ban on wearing the hijab in class. On May 28, EmbOffs spoke to four students -- two men and two women -- who criticized the government's heavy-ha [...]	2009-06-10 12:14:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL TI
09DUSHANBE957	PROMINENT FORMER OPPOSITION LEADER TURAJONZODA SHARES VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: On July 30, Embassy PolOffs and two DRL representatives met with Hoji Akbar Turajonzoda, a charismatic religious leader who was among the top leaders of the United Tajik Opposition during Tajikistan's civil war. Despite his continued harsh criticism of President Rahmon, Turajonzod [...]	2009-08-07 12:04:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL TI
09FREETOWN470	B-K ACTION REQUEST: DECEMBER VOTE ON "DEFAMATION [...] (U) Reftel demarche was delivered to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General Khadijatu Bashir, normally the number four person in the Ministry but currently acting Foreign Minister (the incumbent returns from the Hajj on December 3, with other senior officials also abroad). The a [...]	2009-12-02 16:38:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF SL
09GEORGETOWN630	GUYANA: Demarche Delivered on UNGA "Defamation of Religions" [...] (U) Per reftel, PolChief delivered demarche on the potential dangers of the "Defamation of Religions" resolution and requested the Government of Guyana (GOG) to vote against or to abstain on the resolution when it comes to the UNGA plenary session for a final vote. Demarche was delivered [...]	2009-12-10 13:59:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PREL PHUM KIRF UN UNGA XL GY
09GUANGZHOU51	Preaching and Practicing -- Fujian Churches [...] (C) SUMMARY: Officially registered churches in Fujian Province are growing steadily, with a demographic shift toward younger, urban, educated and more affluent members. In the wake of the economic downturn and gaps left in the government's social safety net, many churches are launching social [...]	2009-01-29 09:30:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM SOCI CH
09GUANGZHOU59	GUANGZHOU HOUSE CHURCHES - GROWING DESPITE SPORADIC POLICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Guangzhou's underground house churches continue to grow, particularly among students and professionals, even in the face of periodic police pressure and oversight of large gatherings and religious training. Church leaders tell us that most area house churches continue to hold serv [...]	2009-02-03 08:13:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM SOCI CH
09GUANGZHOU61	An Evening with Guangzhou's Bishop Gan: Whither Religious [...] (C) Summary. A wry, at times bemused, Bishop Joseph Gan (Gan Junqiu) told the U.S. and French Consuls General over dinner February 3 that he did not see any possibility for China-Vatican relations over the next 4-5 years. The issue, the Bishop said, was not whether the Vatican "de-recognized" [...]	2009-02-04 06:31:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM SOCI CH PGOV
09GUANGZHOU635	Guangxi Opens Its Doors, But Does Not Roll out the Carpet [...] (SBU) Summary: On his initial visit to the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Consul General Goldbeck promoted trade and investment, advanced the possibility of establishing an American Corner and learned about Sino-Vietnamese cooperation on trafficking in persons. He also discussed the plans o [...]	2009-11-18 09:50:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD KTIP PGOV KIRF SOCI CH VN
09GUANGZHOU647	Chinese Protestant Christians Discuss Finding [...] (C) Summary: Pastors at the state-approved Three-Self Patriotic Movement Protestant Zhongshan Road Church in Nanning, Guangxi, say they have more freedom to minister to their flocks but still must avoid discussing sensitive topics. The Zhongshan Road Church takes pride in its professionally t [...]	2009-11-23 09:04:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF SOCI ELAB CH
09GUANGZHOU70	SOUTH CHINA BUDDHISTS - EMPHASIZING CHARITY, RAISING [...] (C) Summary: Buddhist leaders in South China, like many other religious leaders, are ramping up charitable efforts, especially in the wake of China's economic slowdown, and in the process are maintaining positive and cooperative relationships with the government. Guangdong's government-approve [...]	2009-02-05 06:36:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM SOCI CH
09HANOI104	TOUR D'HORIZON WITH VIETNAM'S MFA [...] (C) Summary: At a February 9 lunch with MFA Americas Director General Nguyen Ba Hung, DCM covered a full range of bilateral issues including senior-level GVN visits to the U.S. for the coming year, the requested visit to Vietnam by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and th [...]	2009-02-10 09:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT ECON KIRF PGOV PREL VM
09HANOI1360	Embassy Monitoring of Montagnard Returnees in Gia Lai [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 10, Poloff visited three recent Montagnard returnees in Gia Lai province. All three affirmed that they traveled to Cambodia for economic reasons with the long-term goal of resettlement in the U.S. None reported harassment by local officials prior to fleeing Cambodi [...]	2009-12-15 12:27:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF UNHCR CB VM
09HANOI1398	Government to evict Plum Village monks again by the end of [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnamese officials in Hanoi and the Central Highlands continue to assert that Plum Village monks and nuns must return to their home provinces and seek residence at local Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha (VBS)-affiliated temples despite our latest round of protests. The head of the [...]	2009-12-18 09:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI160	Vatican Discuses Normalizing Relations, Raises Papal Visit [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Monsignor Pietro Parolin, Holy See Under-Secretary for Relations with States, travelled to Vietnam February 15-22 at the invitation of the GVN to begin bilateral discussions on normalization of relations under the rubric of a Joint Working Group. During the visit, P [...]	2009-02-24 10:09:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL VM
09HANOI272	A REVIEW OF SWITZERLAND'S HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Vietnam and Switzerland held the seventh round of their bilateral human rights dialogue March 13-18 in Vietnam. Reviewing the formal discussions, the Swiss Embassy official responsible for the talks said that Vietnam takes the UN Universal Periodic Review process seriously and s [...]	2009-03-25 07:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI286	HANOI COURT REJECTS CATHOLICS' APPEAL [...] (SBU) Summary: With hundreds of Roman Catholics rallying outside the courthouse and a very heavy police presence, a Hanoi court on March 27 upheld the December 2008 convictions of eight Thai Ha parishioners on charges of property damage and disturbing public order during vigils in protest over [...]	2009-03-30 09:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM VM
09HANOI500	USCIRF Meets Imprisoned Dissidents Father Nguyen Van Ly and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom delegation led by Vice Chairman Cromartie, accompanied by PolOff, met with two of Vietnam's most prominent political prisoners, dissident attorney Nguyen Van Dai and Father Nguyen Van Ly, on May 13 at Nam Ha Prison. Both ap [...]	2009-06-02 02:50:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI595	USCIRF Visits Vietnam Again [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In their fourth visit to Vietnam since 2002, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) repeated familiar criticisms of Vietnam's protections of religious freedom. In official meetings with high-ranking GVN officials, including Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign M [...]	2009-06-26 09:50:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI609	USCIRF's Travels in Northwest Vietnam [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three USCIRF staff and PolOff traveled to Son La and Dien Bien provinces from May 18-21 to meet with Catholic and Protestant congregations in two provinces that are well-known for difficulties in implementing the national law on belief and religion. In Son La province, while no [...]	2009-06-30 11:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI653	Local Authorities Stand By As Internecine Dispute at Bat [...] (SBU) Summary: Post has received scores of calls from American Buddhists, Congressman Peter Welch and former Ambassador Andrew Young about ongoing mob violence against 400 monks from the Plum Village Lang Mai order. The violence is the culmination of a dispute that surfaced last fall and can [...]	2009-07-14 07:52:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI694	DCM Raises Buddhist and Catholic Disputes, Other Issues, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 22, the DCM met with Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) Vice Chairman Nguyen Thanh Xuan to press for a resolution to the ongoing dispute between Buddhist sects at the Bat Nha Pagoda in Lam Dong Province, express concern over the reported beating of Catholic parishione [...]	2009-07-27 09:59:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI695	DCM, MPS DISCUSS VIOLENCE IN LAM DONG AND QUANG BINH [...] (SBU) On July 22, the DCM met with the Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) General Security Department, Major General To Lam to discuss a range of operational issues and to reiterate U.S. concerns over violence affecting religious devotees in two locations: the Bat [...]	2009-07-27 10:04:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI771	VATICAN RELATIONS IMPROVE AS ARCHBISHOP KIET CONSIDERS HIS [...] (C) SUMMARY. With President Nguyen Minh Triet scheduled to visit the Holy See in November, Vatican officials have told the Hanoi Archdiocese that they are bullish about normalizing relations. Local Catholic leaders are less than fully elated at the prospect, however, voicing suspicion over t [...]	2009-08-14 08:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VT VM
09HANOI784	Khmer Krom Religious Freedom in Mekong Delta [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Vietnam's leadership continues to pay close attention to the country's Khmer Krom community, and has spent considerable resources to build new Theravada Buddhist pagodas, a Pali-language high school, and a university-level Theravada Buddhist Institute. Contrary to reports from [...]	2009-08-17 08:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI79	Defrocked Monks and Dissidents Released During Tet Amnesty [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In addition to former Thanh Nien journalist Nguyen Viet Chien, four defrocked Khmer Krom monks, a member of the For the People's Party and a land rights activist were released as part of Vietnam's Tet Amnesty. While we are still awaiting the release of the formal list of those [...]	2009-02-04 00:17:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL VM
09HANOI801	RECALL 09 HANOI 801 [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-27 07:28:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD KIRF SENV BM VM
09HANOI803	SENATOR WEBB'S AUGUST 19-20 MEETINGS IN HANOI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a short, but substantively very productive set of meetings in Hanoi, August 19-20, Senator Jim Webb emphasized the need to continue building on the remarkable progress that the two countries had made since the Senator first re-engaged with Vietnam as a civilian in 1991. The [...]	2009-08-27 09:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF ECON ETRD BM VM
09HANOI88	Prime Minister's Edict on Religion-Related Land and [...] (SBU) In the wake of sustained land-use protests involving Catholic parishioners throughout 2008, PM Nguyen Tan Dung recently issued a four-page edict concerning "religion-related land and facilities." (See paragraph four for an unofficial translation.) The edict specifies that government age [...]	2009-02-05 08:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI889	Ambassador, VFM Minh Discuss Human Rights, Nuclear MOU, [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph eight. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On October 30, the Ambassador met with Vice Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh to reiterate U.S. concerns about the conviction of political dissidents and the forced expulsion of Lang Mai followers fr [...]	2009-11-03 10:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KNNP KIRF UNSC ECON CVIS ASEAN BM IR
09HANOI92	AMBASSADOR AND ARCHBISHOP OF HANOI DISCUSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador immediately before the week-long Lunar New Year holiday (Tet),the Archbishop of Hanoi, Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet, stressed the need for the GVN to enhance political rights such as freedom of speech and private property rights. He also declared tha [...]	2009-02-06 05:34:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI921	Controversial Pastor Accused of Rape [...] (C) On December 2, Protestant Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh was detained for police questioning in connection with at least one rape case in Gia Lai Province. According to Pastor Siu Y Kim (strictly protect),an Executive Board member of the Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam South and the mos [...]	2009-12-04 10:16:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
09HANOI97	Vietnam Religious Freedom Update [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of religious adherents in Vietnam continues to grow, as does the number of religious groups receiving official registration and recognition. At the beginning of 2009, the GVN reported 23 million religious faithful. An additional nine new religious organizations were [...]	2009-02-10 00:50:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI978	Setting the Scene for Deputy Secretary Steinberg's September [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their highest point since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third-largest trading partner, and one of its largest foreign investor [...]	2009-09-18 10:33:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD KIRF SENV MARR KHIV KHDP BM
09HOCHIMINHCITY153	VETERAN DEMOCRACY DISSIDENTS SPEAK OUT ON U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary: Veteran democracy activists Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, Democratic Party of Vietnam (DPV) leader Tran Khue and monk Thich Quang Do of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) offered divergent views [...]	2009-03-03 08:52:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY158	THAI HA DEFENSE LAWYER UNDER PRESSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A prominent HCMC-based lawyer who has both a successful corporate practice and a lengthy track record of defending persons involved in human rights cases is himself now the subject of what appears to be a politically motivated series of charges. He is being prevented from defendin [...]	2009-03-04 10:06:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY28	MONTAGNARD RETURNEES POOR AND FRUSTRATED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Home visits from November 24-26 with 28 Montagnards in two of the poorest provinces in Vietnam revealed that economic factors, particularly a desire to escape from poverty, continue to be the main factors that drove these ethnic minority highlanders to flee to Cambodia, with th [...]	2009-01-12 09:12:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM KIRF UNHCR CB VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY34	CHRISTMAS SERVICES GO SMOOTHLY FOR MAJORITY OF CHURCHES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The majority of Catholic and Protestant congregations in Southern Vietnam reported smooth sailing during their 2008 Christmas celebrations, though Protestant church leaders noted they scaled back events due to the downturn in the economy. State press reported official GVN parti [...]	2009-01-13 11:24:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY361	HCMC POLITICAL DISSIDENT LAWYER FACES POLICE HARASSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. In the last two weeks, the police have stepped up their questioning and harassment of Mr. Le Tran Luat, a HCMC-based human rights lawyer who has drawn attention for his efforts on behalf of various political dissidents and land-rights activists, including the Thai Hai parishion [...]	2009-05-12 10:09:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY574	UBCV HOLDS MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR FORMER PATRIARCH UNDER HEAVY [...] (SBU) Summary: Over 3,000 members of the unrecognized Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) gathered at Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh province on July 23 to mark the first anniversary of the death of their late patriarch, Thich Huyen Quang. While there were no direct confrontations w [...]	2009-08-04 09:58:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY589	TWO NEWLY-APPOINTED CATHOLIC BISHOPS DISCUSS GROWTH AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Two of the three new Vietnamese bishops named by the Vatican earlier in the summer recently met with the Consulate to share their positive experiences in overseeing Catholic communities in the southern part of the country. One of the two, Bishop Joseph Nguyen Nang, will be headi [...]	2009-08-27 10:50:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY599	SITUATION FOR LANG MAI MONKS DETERIORATES AT BAT NHA PAGODA [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 21, local authorities raided the dormitory of the besieged monks and nuns of the Plum Village Lang Mai Order at Bat Nha pagoda in Lam Dong province, demanding identification papers and taking several monks into custody for questioning. The police action came shortly [...]	2009-09-22 10:39:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY65	THE TRIAL OF PASTOR NGUYEN THI HONG [...] (SBU) Summary: The HCMC People's Court sentenced Mennonite pastor Nguyen Thi Hong to three years in jail on charges related to outstanding debts owed by her deceased first husband on January 15, 2009. Pastor Hong, a long time political dissident married to democracy activist Pastor Nguyen Hon [...]	2009-01-23 08:05:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY650	UNREGISTERED PROTESTANT HOUSE CHURCH LEADERS REPORT HALTING [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of several unregistered house churches told ConGenOff recently that religious freedom continues to improve, but some congregations continue to experience problems with slow localized registrations and harassment by local authorities. Some individual pastors have been s [...]	2009-10-29 09:33:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY669	AS LANG MAI FOLLOWERS HUNKER DOWN IN LAM DONG, ANOTHER GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary: More than 200 Lang Mai monks and nuns remain at the Phuoc Hue pagoda in Lam Dong province. Reliable contacts report that police continue to monitor their activities and attempt to mobilize members of the community to sign a petition to evict them. Twenty-one Lang Mai monks and [...]	2009-12-03 10:07:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY672	ANGRY MOB DISRUPTS EU VISIT WITH LANG MAI FOLLOWERS; CRA [...] (SBU) Summary: The situation for the Lang Mai followers currently housed at the Phuoc Hue pagoda deteriorated further on December 9 after angry locals gathered and threatened the group, calling on Phuoc Hue's leaders to evict them -- the same tactics that were used to force them to leave Bat Nh [...]	2009-12-10 09:00:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY678	IRREVERENT REVERENDS ILLUSTRATE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM'S [...] (SBU) Summary: While remaining dedicated to their individual faiths, some religious leaders in HCMC are becoming increasingly more daring in their religious sermons, even in front of mixed congregations of expatriates and locals. Vietnamese and foreigners are worshiping together both in formal [...]	2009-12-18 11:27:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY7	FORMER CATHOLIC MONASTERY IN VINH LONG SLATED FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A former Catholic monastery slated for re-development in the Delta province of Vinh Long has become the latest Church property to spur protests from the Catholic community. Despite repeated petitions by the Provincial Superior of Sisters of Saint Paul de Chartres and the Bishop [...]	2009-01-07 08:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF PHUM PREL VM
09HONGKONG1919	HONG KONG CATHOLICS FORESEE NO CHANGE IN PRC [...] (C) Summary: Catholic China-watchers in Hong Kong do not anticipate that the mid-September change of leadership at the State Administration of Religious Affairs (SARA) will result in any significant revision of the PRC's policy on religion. Despite SARA's central government-level status, one o [...]	2009-10-14 09:49:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF HK CH
09HONGKONG841	MACAU RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: REVERSION WAS ONLY THE [...] (C) Summary and comment: According to representatives of several of Macau's major religious communities, Macau's 1999 reversion to PRC rule allowed other faiths to gain equal status with the formerly state-supported Catholic Church. The Buddhist and Protestant communities now receive governmen [...]	2009-05-07 08:04:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF CH MC
09HONGKONG985	CODEL PELOSI MEETING WITH MARTIN LEE [...] (C) Summary: Veteran democratic politician Martin Lee warned CODEL Pelosi May 30 that Beijing was "reneging" on its promises of elections by universal suffrage, Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong, and a high degree of autonomy in matters specified in the Basic Law. He said Hong Kong people t [...]	2009-06-01 03:42:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF CH HK
09ISTANBUL466	SURVEY SHOWS HIGH LEVELS OF RELIGIOSITY AND [...] (C) Summary. Sabanci University political scientist Ali Carkoglu, together with Ersin Kalaycioglu, reported new research findings on religiosity in Turkey under the framework of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) that indicate a high level of religiosity among Turks and high levels [...]	2009-12-24 07:56:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF TU
09JAKARTA1465	RAMADAN IN INDONESIA -- AMID FASTING AND [...] SUMMARY: Indonesia's over 200 million Muslims are observing the month of Ramadan in festive fashion with a constant round of Iftaar (breaking fast) events. Per local government orders, night clubs, massage parlors and saunas are shut, while karaoke and live music venues are maintaining limi [...]	2009-09-02 09:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KISL KIRF ID
09JAKARTA1579	EID HOLIDAYS IN INDONESIA -- THE MASS EXODUS BEGINS [...] SUMMARY: With the close of Ramadan fasting approaching, Indonesia--the world's largest Muslim country by population--is bracing for a mass exodus of millions from urban areas to home villages. Almost 25 million people are expected to head home during the two-week period surrounding the Eid- [...]	2009-09-18 09:11:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KISL KIRF ECON ID
09JAKARTA1835	INDONESIA PREPARES FOR THE HAJJ [...] SUMMARY: With the start of the Hajj pilgrimage quickly approaching, Indonesia--the world's largest Muslim country by population--is making massive preparations for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Indonesia is the largest contributor to the Hajj, sending over 200,000 pilgrims. Amid the regul [...]	2009-11-05 04:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KISL KIRF ID SA
09JAKARTA1863	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- POSITIVE NEWS IN INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has welcomed the 2009 International Religious Freedom Report's acknowledgment of Indonesia's improved respect for religious freedom. Several recent developments underline efforts in this area: for example, Christian groups have received permission to open a new seminar [...]	2009-11-10 08:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF ID
09JAKARTA1908	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- ACTIVISTS TAKE TO THE COURTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Human Rights activists are pressing the Indonesian Constitutional Court to overturn a controversial religious blasphemy law. Lawyers argue that the law limits religious expression and contradicts the freedoms guaranteed in the Indonesian Constitution. In the past, the GOI--unde [...]	2009-11-18 08:49:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF SOCI ID
09JAKARTA1919	INTERFAITH DIALOGUE WITH INDONESIA -- MOVING THE [...] (U) This message contains an Action Request -- Please see paras 6-7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Along with the USG, the Indonesian government has now committed funds and set a January 25-27, 2010, date for the planned joint Interfaith Dialogue. A representative of the U.S. NGO Religions for Peace [...]	2009-11-20 09:49:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL KIRF KPAO ID
09JAKARTA2009	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- HIGH-LEVEL VATICAN OFFICIAL [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Cardinal Tauran, President of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, recently visited Indonesia. The Cardinal highlighted positive Christian-Muslim relations in Indonesia [...]	2009-12-07 10:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KIRF ID
09JAKARTA970	PRESIDENT OBAMA'S CAIRO SPEECH EVOKES POSITIVE [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulates Surabaya and Medan. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Prominent Indonesians of different faiths praised President Obama's "soothing" speech to Muslim world communities on June 4. One of his advisors told Pol/C that President Yudhoyono was "highly impressed [...]	2009-06-05 10:52:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KIRF KISL ID
09JEDDAH121	OIC PONDERS CREATION OF NEW HUMAN RIGHTS ORGAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Organization of the Islamic Conference(OIC) is in the process of establishing a new human rights organ, but it is far from certain whether member states will ratify the proposal during meetings in April and May and what form the new body will take. Several OIC declarations man [...]	2009-03-30 15:28:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL OPDC OIC SA KTIP KIRF KWMN PHUM
09JEDDAH131	MAKING A FIRST UMRAH IN MECCA: AN INSIDE VIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 5, 2009, ConGen Jeddah political officer made a first visit to the Masjid Al-Haram(Grand Mosque) in Mecca in the company of three American Muslims of Sudanese origin, two men and one woman, in order to perform together the Umrah (visit to the holy places). Following is a [...]	2009-04-08 14:38:00	Consulate Jeddah	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF KISL PHUM SA
09JEDDAH215	ASKING TO SEE WORDS LINKED TO ACTION, JEDDAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Obama's June 4 speech in Cairo to the Muslim world was very positively received by an audience of a dozen Saudi elites, Muslim diplomats, and a senior OIC official at the Consul General's residence in Jeddah. The speech was viewed as setting US-Islamic relations in a new [...]	2009-06-04 16:43:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PREL SA TU EG
09JEDDAH227	IRF VISIT SPARKS DISCUSSION ON HOW FAR SAUDI [...] (C) SUMMARY: May 2-4 visit of International Religious Freedom officer, and meetings with Saudis, expats and OIC officials, sparked discussion on Saudi Arabia's basic posture on IRF issues. Meetings revealed that many Saudis continue to question the rationale for respecting non-Muslim rights in [...]	2009-06-14 13:28:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF KISL PGOV SA
09JEDDAH348	OIC ISLAMIC FIQH ACADEMY SECRETARY GENERAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-20 16:26:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL KWBG KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SA OIC
09JEDDAH368	IRAQI CONSUL GENERAL IN JEDDAH MOVING TO KUWAIT AS [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-01 11:43:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	IZ KIRF KISL KU OFDP PAL PGOV PHUM SA
09JEDDAH385	"SITUATION CATASTROPHIQUE MAIS NON SANS ESPOIR": [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. During October 10 farewell dinner at CG's residence, Iraqi Consul General Dr. Ajwad Sheikh Taha Hamad (strictly protect) had more to say about his posting as Charge d'Affaires in Kuwait. Departing Jeddah and arriving in Kuwait on October 11, Hamad expressed displeasure at the [...]	2009-10-13 07:50:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	IR IZ KIRF KISL KU OFDP PGOV PHUM SA
09JEDDAH452	THREATS OF IRANIAN PROTESTS AND H1N1 LOOM OVER HAJJ [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Saudi Arabian Government (SAG) continues to prepare for the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, which will take place November 25)27. While concerns over the spread of H1N1 may lead to significantly fewer pilgrims participating in this year,s pilgrimage, SAG officials appea [...]	2009-11-24 11:58:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	IR KIRF KISL PGOV PREL KFLU SA

09JEDDAH466	HAJJ 2009/1430 -- AN AMERICAN'S INSIDE VIEW OF THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-08 14:47:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PREL KFLU SA
09JEDDAH489	REDISCOVERING SOUTHERN ARABIA: NAJRAN, THE EMIRATE [...] (C) Summary: A ConGen visit to the southern Arabia emirate of Najran, December 18-19, 2009, revealed a tranquil, fertile valley tucked within mountainous terrain, where the traditional way of life has remained surprisingly unaffected by the recent violence in Yemen, at various points 5-15 km [...]	2009-12-25 07:26:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KPAO PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SA SCUL
09JEDDAH70	SAUDI HUMAN RIGHTS BODY COMMENTS ON HAIMDAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloffs met recently with an official of the Jeddah branch of the National Society for Human Rights to discuss a range of human rights issues: freedom of worship, rights of the child, Gaza and TIP. Praising the President's decision to close Guantanamo, our interlocutor expressed c [...]	2009-02-17 12:56:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF SA
09JEDDAH85	HIJAZIS COMMENT ON RECENT MEDINA CLASHES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post met with Hijazi Shi'a to get their views of recent demonstrations in Medina following clashes after Shi'a pilgrims were not allowed to enter Baqi'a cemetery on February 20. Poloffs also spoke to a local Sunni contact with ties to Medina who claims the situation has been blown [...]	2009-03-02 16:49:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SA
09JERUSALEM1766	RENEWED UNREST ON HARAM AL-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT [...] (C) Summary: On October 4, Israeli police clashed briefly with Arab Israeli protesters attempting to enter the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount platform in order to "protect" the al-Aqsa mosque from hard-line Jewish groups whom protesters believed to be organizing a visit. Arab Islamic Movement [...]	2009-10-05 12:07:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM KWBG IS KIRF
09JERUSALEM2259	WEST BANK MOSQUE TORCHED, SETTLERS SUSPECTED [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-11 16:11:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL KWBG KIRF KISL IS
09JERUSALEM2260	WEST BANK MOSQUE TORCHED, SETTLERS SUSPECTED [...] (C) Summary. Before dawn on December 11, a mosque was set afire in the Palestinian village of Yasuf, south of Nablus, according to Palestinian Authority security officials. Local contacts and press report that Israeli settlers from Kfar Tappuach are suspected of the arson, which was the la [...]	2009-12-11 16:33:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL KIRF KISL KWBG IS
09KABUL1012	PRESSING AYATOLLAH MOHSENI ON HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL [...] SUMMARY: The Charge called on Mohammad Asef Ali Ayatollah Mohseni, Afghanistan's highest ranking Shia cleric, on April 16 to register U.S. concerns that the Shia Family Law that emerges from ongoing internal Afghan reconsideration -- if it emerges at all -- be consistent with the protections [...]	2009-04-21 12:13:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PGOV PREL
09KABUL1591	THE SIKHS OF AFGHANISTAN - A VANISHING COMMUNITY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Upper House MP Awtar Singh Khalsa, the only Sikh or Hindu member of the Afghan parliament, said the Sikh and Hindu community had dwindled from approximately 50,000 families before the jihad against the Soviets, to approximately 6,000 people at present. He attributed the populati [...]	2009-06-21 17:21:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL3440	AFGHANISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IRFR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered the Department of State's International Religious Freedom Report (IRFR) to the Afghanistan Ministry of Hajj and Islamic Affairs Director of External Relations and Director of Publications Mr. Qazi Habib Rahman Salehi. Salehi agreed in theory that religious toleran [...]	2009-10-27 12:51:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KIRF KPAO PGOV PHUM OPCR
09KABUL3501	AFGHAN SIKH LEADER WANTS LAND--OR MEANS OF ESCAPE [...] (U) Summary: The senior representative of Afghanistan's beleaguered Sikh minority flagged to us their deepening problems and alleged that, since the election, the security situation for Sikhs and Hindus has worsened as a result of the central government's failure to exercise control and influe [...]	2009-11-03 12:07:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF PGOV AF
09KABUL510	MINISTRY OF HAJJ AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS: EDUCATORS [...] (SBU) Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs (MHRA) Deputy Minister Shafiq Samim and Senior Advisor Sharif Robaty said in a 2/4 meeting that the MHRA educates the public on a variety of secular and religious issues. The MHRA has used its influence over government-funded mosques to call on th [...]	2009-03-05 14:27:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL
09KABUL77	AFGHAN SHIAS OBSERVE ASHURA UNDER NEW TOLERANCE [...] (U) SUMMARY. Afghan Shia observed the Ashura holiday this month, staging public demonstrations of their faith that went largely unchallenged by the country's Sunni majority. Thousands of Shia took to the streets in processions in Kabul, Herat, and other cities -- an open display that stood i [...]	2009-01-15 12:36:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PREL AF IR
09KATHMANDU881	NEPAL: TERRORIST THREATENING CHRISTIANS ARRESTED [...] (C) Summary: The leader of the Nepal Defense Army (NDA),Ram Prasad Mainali, was arrested on September 5 in the eastern Terai district of Morang. The NDA is a Hindu extremist organization that gained prominence over the past couple of years for attacks against Christians as well as Muslims [...]	2009-09-23 11:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KIRF ASEC CASC IN NP
09KINGSTON1046	JAMAICA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA "DEFAMATION OF [...] (U) Per reftels, Emboff delivered demarche on the potential dangers of the "Defamation of Religions" resolution and solicited the Government of Jamaica (GOJ)'s commitment to vote against or to abstain on the resolution when it comes to the UNGA plenary session for a final vote. Demarche was de [...]	2009-12-03 16:45:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PREL PHUM KIRF UN UNGA XL JM
09KOLKATA256	ONE YEAR LATER, KANDHAMAL RESIDENTS REBUILD DIVIDED [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-17 11:41:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF IN
09KUALALUMPUR159	GOM AND CATHOLIC CHURCH STILL AT ODDS OVER "ALLAH" [...] (SBU) The Malaysian government's attempted ban on the Catholic Church's use of the word "Allah" continues to generate politically-charged controversy with the courts yet to resolve the matter. Just prior to a February 27 court hearing, the Home Ministry issued an order allowing the Catholic C [...]	2009-03-04 10:56:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SCUL KIRF KISL MY
09KUALALUMPUR214	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on March 24 to Farisha binti Salman, Assistant Secretary for Multilateral Political Affairs in Malaysia's Foreign Ministry. Farisha stated the "points are duly noted" and pledged to share the information within the Ministry but otherwise provided no imm [...]	2009-03-24 09:39:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF KISL MY
09KYIV1172	PATRIARCH KIRILL'S VISIT AND UKRAINE'S ORTHODOX [...] (SBU) Church leaders in Ukraine are preparing for the visit of Kirill, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) later this month. The Ukrainian branch of the ROC hopes to avoid controversy by emphasizing the religious purpose of Kirill's visit. The second largest Orthodox community in [...]	2009-07-10 15:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL UP
09LAHORE131	MINORITY RIGHTS ADVOCATE ARRESTED IN LAHORE [...] (SBU) Summary. Joseph Francis, National Director of the Center for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) and prominent human rights advocate, was arrested and denied bail by the Lahore High Court on July 9 after traveling to London while on bail in a forced conversion case. Francis is [...]	2009-07-11 11:40:00	Consulate Lahore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PK
09LAHORE133	CHRISTIANS ATTACKED IN KASUR [...] (SBU) Summary: A drunken fistfight erupted into an alleged incident of blasphemy, which sparked a mob attack on a Christian community in rural Punjab, prompting 700 people to flee their homes June 30. Federal Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti offered compensation to the affected [...]	2009-07-13 06:07:00	Consulate Lahore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PK
09LAHORE156	FEMALE MADRASSAHS IN PUNJAB PREPARE WOMEN FOR THE HOME [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloff visits to three female Ahl-e-Hadith madrassahs in Punjab has shown that they provide Islamic studies, Quran memorization and basic life skills training, but little else to prepare women for an independent life. Aside from the Quran, girls learn to cook, clean and sew; th [...]	2009-07-30 02:41:00	Consulate Lahore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV KISL PK
09LAHORE196	BLASPHEMY ACCUSED DIES IN POLICE CUSTODY IN NORTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary: A young Pakistani Christian man died in police custody, three days after he was arrested and charged with blasphemy. On September 11, 20-year-old Fanish Masih, an illiterate sweeper, allegedly grabbed a copy of the Quran from a teenage Muslim girl and threw it in the drain. [...]	2009-10-14 05:55:00	Consulate Lahore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PK
09LAHORE204	CHRISTIANS DEMAND JUSTICE FROM PUNJAB PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 5, Christian villagers from Gojra made a show of rejecting USAID winterization kits and demanded justice after Muslim mobs burned houses in two Christian villages in August, killing eight people. Frustrated by the release on bail of a man arrested in connection wit [...]	2009-10-21 09:57:00	Consulate Lahore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PK
09LUANDA188	ANGOLA REVIEWING POSITION ON "DEFAMATION OF [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on March 24 to Adao Pinto, Deputy Director of the Americas for Angola's Ministry of Foreign Relations. Pinto undertook to share the information with a "key" colleague in the international organizations bureau. PolOff followed up on March 25 and Pinto co [...]	2009-03-26 07:04:00	Embassy Luanda	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF AO
09LUANDA193	PAPAL VISIT RAISED TOUGH ISSUES; DOS SANTOS [...] (C) Summary: In his March 20-23 visit to Angola, Pope Benedict XVI addressed national reconciliation, poverty alleviation, transparency and anti-corruption in public events with as many as two million participants. The official reaction to this message was strikingly responsive, with Presiden [...]	2009-03-26 14:54:00	Embassy Luanda	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF AO VT
09LUSAKA212	ZAMBIAN POSITION ON "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-27 10:38:00	Embassy Lusaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PREL ZA
09MANILA679	DEMARCHE - DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Post discussed reftel points with the Office of United Nations and International Organizations (UNIO) of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),underscoring U.S. concerns that the resolution could be used to limit freedom of religion and expression and curtail legitimate dissent. Post [...]	2009-03-27 04:28:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF RP
09MEXICO1196	CHURCH DEBATE ON ROLE IN CONFRONTING SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary. Comments by Durango Archbishop Hector Gonzalez Martinez April 17 about the whereabouts of fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman prompted a lively debate last week at the Mexican Bishops' Council about the role of the Catholic Church in Mexico,s ongoing drug war. Whil [...]	2009-04-29 16:23:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KIRF MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER SOCI SNAR MX
09MONTEVIDEO167	URUGUAY TO CHANGE ABSTENTION TO "NO" VOTE ON UNHRC [...] (U) On March 26, post delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's Director of Human Rights, Laura Dupuy. The MFA's Human Rights Department accepted the points and agrees with the U.S. position on the "defamation of religions" resolution. Dupuy said that the GOU hoped to offer a text change that wou [...]	2009-03-26 19:16:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF UY
09MOSCOW1034	KIRILL CRONIES BENEFIT FROM RUSSIAN ORTHODOX [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 31, Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Patriarch Kirill presided over the first meeting of Church leaders since his enthronement, introducing significant personnel and structural changes to the ROC. Kirill appointed faithful supporter Bishop Ilarion as the new Chairman of [...]	2009-04-22 08:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1156	RUSSIA: THE SITUATION IN KALMYKIA IS ANYTHING BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The predominantly Buddhist Republic of Kalmykia in Russia's Southern Federal District, headed by a chess-obsessed autocrat, has not been spared the corruption endemic to the rest of the country or the ethnic strife found in the nearby North Caucasus republics. Both the mayor o [...]	2009-05-06 07:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM KIRF PINR RS
09MOSCOW1174	TUVA: LONELY REPUBLIC SEEKS STABLE RELATIONSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent trip to the remote Siberian republic of Tuva revealed overwhelming support for the ruling United Russia party, but social and economic isolation from the rest of the country. The capital of Tuva trumpeted no major businesses and relied on government allocations, small [...]	2009-05-07 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1185	NEW KHAKASSIA GOVERNOR PUSHES ECONOMIC REFORM, [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent trip to the small southern Siberian republic of Khakassia revealed strong local government clearly support for the United Russia party, despite difficult economic challenges in the near future. Newly-appointed Governor Zimin has established his reputation as a Medvede [...]	2009-05-08 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1205	HEAT TURNED UP AGAINST JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite recent written appeals by Russian Federation Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin to General Prosecutor Yuriy Chayka, Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia are facing enhanced scrutiny as local police pursue charges of "extremism" directed at JW religious literature. JW Amcit [...]	2009-05-13 11:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1537	GOR WITHDRAWS FROM SCHNEERSOHN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, [...] (C) On personal instructions from Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Director for the North America Department Khudrin summoned us on June 11 and presented a note (scanned and emailed to EUR/RUS) that announced the GOR's withdrawal from United States court pro [...]	2009-06-11 14:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1597	JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, SCIENTOLOGISTS UNDER [...] (SBU) Summary. The campaign against the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) in Russia, instigated by General Prosecutor Yuriy Chayka in early 2009, continued in May and June. While a judge dismissed one case against the JW branch in Tolyatti on insufficient grounds, the situation in Samara Oblast, Sve [...]	2009-06-18 07:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1688	SAMADUROV EXPECTS GUILTY VERDICT IN "FORBIDDEN [...] (SBU) Summary: The trial of former Sakharov Center Director Yuriy Samodurov and former curator of the New Tretyakov Gallery Andrey Yerofeyev has entered its third month of hearings at the Taganskiy district court in the criminal case brought against them for a 2006 modern art exhibit entitle [...]	2009-06-29 11:18:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM PINR SOCI KJUS RS
09MOSCOW1764	RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH KIRILL PROPOSES [...] (SBU) Summary. In advance of the July 6-8 visit to Moscow by President Obama, Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill welcomed stronger ties between the U.S. and Russia and proposed a religious component to international peace negotiations. Kirill also presse [...]	2009-07-08 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1876	ROC ADVOCATES CREATION OF AN INTER-RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) External Church Relations Chairman Archbishop Hilarion advocated to the Ambassador for interfaith dialogue through the creation of an Inter-Religious Council within UNESCO and the strengthening of inter-Orthodox and inter-Christian relationships. [...]	2009-07-22 11:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2738	A POSSIBLE BREAKTHROUGH ON SCHNEERSON COLLECTION [...] (C) Summary: Russian MFA Special Culture Representative Mikhail Shvydkoy told us that the GOR might be willing to consider a compromise solution to the bilateral impasse over the Schneerson Collection. According to the compromise, the Library of Congress would write a letter requesting Schnee [...]	2009-11-06 11:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL KIRF KJUS RS
09MOSCOW546	JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES TARGETED FOR HARASSMENT AND [...] (C) Summary. Over the past several months, two regional courts have charged the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) of Russia with distributing extremist literature, and the Russian General Prosecutor has ordered a full investigation of JW religious activity, in coordination with the FSB. Local police [...]	2009-03-05 15:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR PREL SOCI RS
09MOSCOW689	MEDVEDEV ASKS RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO HELP RUSSIA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 11, Medvedev convened a joint meeting of the State Council and the Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula, focusing on the moral development and civic education of Russia's youth. Medvedev, coordinating the meeting himself, asked the h [...]	2009-03-20 13:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW708	NEW PATRIARCH SOUNDS PRO-AMERICAN AFTER RETURN OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Beyrle attended a ceremony on March 17 to commemorate the return of 18 bells from Harvard University to the Russian Orthodox Danilovskiy Monastery. Patriarch Kirill shared his appreciation for the U.S. Government's role in the process, proclaiming the ceremony as a [...]	2009-03-23 13:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW774	AMBASSADOR KENNEDY VISITS MOSCOW IN ADVANCE OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Ambassador J. Christian Kennedy visited Moscow from March 22 to 25 to meet with Russian counterparts in advance of the June 2009 Prague Conference on Holocaust Era Assets. Ambassador Kennedy liaised with GOR representatives, NGO activists, Je [...]	2009-03-27 14:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI KIRF RS
09MOSCOW879	RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH HOLDS ALL CARDS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent trip to the Russian "Golden Ring" cities of Sergiyev Posad, Suzdal, and Vladimir indicated that despite the existence of four official Russian religions (Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism),the country's traditional religious center is firmly Russian Orthodox. Whil [...]	2009-04-06 13:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI KIRF RS
09MUMBAI190	CONGRESS VERSUS MODZILLA IN GUJARAT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: As Gujarat went to the polls on April 30, observers and pundits expect that the Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Gujarat's Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, would likely increase the size of its Parliamentary represen [...]	2009-05-13 10:54:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM PTER KIRF IN
09MUMBAI369	SHIV SENA-BJP TRY TO STOKE COMMUNAL VIOLENCE AHEAD OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: The three major cities of Sangli, Miraj and Kolhapur in southern Maharashtra experienced Hindu Muslim communal violence for six days in early September during the final phases of the Hindu festival of Ganpati. Sangli and Miraj remained under curfew for most of these six days. Th [...]	2009-09-09 09:12:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF IN
09MUMBAI375	JUDICIAL REPORT FINDS GUJARAT POLICE GUILTY OF EXTRAJUDICIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: A recently leaked inquiry report by a district level judicial officer in Gujarat contended that the 2004 killing of several alleged terrorists had been staged by the Gujarat police, and that the victims had no terrorist links. The Government of Gujarat (GOG),led by Bharatiya Jan [...]	2009-09-15 09:30:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM ASEC PHUM IN KIRF PGOV
09MUMBAI443	MUMBAI'S JEWISH COMMUNITY - SECURITY A NEW CONCERN A YEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the 26/11 terrorist attacks, security awareness has risen within the dwindling Indian Jewish community. The attacks drew unwelcome attention to the community, and while no specific security threats have emerged, some Jewish leaders have requested increased police security [...]	2009-11-25 11:52:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ASEC PTER KIRF IN
09MUSCAT1056	FOR RELEASE: OMAN: FAST, POSITIVE REACTION TO RELIGIOUS [...] On Wednesday, October 28, Oman's state and private media carried uncharacteristically speedy and strongly positive coverage of the Tuesday, October 27 release of the 2009 International Religious Freedom Report. Coverage in all dailies predictably focused on the IRF's positive tone regarding th [...]	2009-10-28 13:23:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KIRF KPAO KMDR OPRC MU
09NAIROBI370	RELIGIOUS LEADERS CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, [...] In their first real attempt since the post-election crisis to regain their role as advocates for social change, leaders from the Inter-Religious Forum called on Kenyans to come together for a day of prayer and reflection on February 19. In a transparent attempt to preempt criticism for their [...]	2009-02-26 11:07:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KIRF KCOR KE
09NEWDELHI587	INDIA: GOVERNMENT CONSIDERING "DEFAMATION OF [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (UN-Economic and Social) Dinesh Patnaik on March 23. Poloff spoke with Patnaik on March 24 who said the GOI has not made a formal decision on the resolution at this time but will seriously consider the issues [...]	2009-03-27 06:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PHUM IN
09NEWDELHI665	BHARAT BALLOT 09: MOHAN BHAGWAT NEW RSS CHIEF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) selected 59-year old Mohan Bhagwat as its new leader, replacing the 78-year old K.S. Sudarshan who stepped down citing health problems. Bhagwat is the youngest chief in RSS history and represents a "generational change" in the organizatio [...]	2009-04-03 13:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM KIRF IN
09OSLO114	PART II: RISING NORWEGIAN ANTI-SEMITISM AFFECTING [...] (C) Summary: Anti-Semitism in Norway, and the expression of anti-Semitic comments, has increased since the Gaza war. The small Norwegian Jewish community is wary of being targeted, and "Jew" has become more popular as an epithet. While the issue of anti-Semitism is frequently debated in the me [...]	2009-02-13 14:48:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF KWBG SOCI PREL PGOV PINR IS NO
09OSLO494	THE NORWAY HAMSUN YEAR CONTROVERSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: August 5 marked the official opening of the Hamsun Center in Hamaroy, Norway, and the continued celebration of the "Hamsun Year," a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize winning author and Nazi sympathizer Knut Hamsun. The "Hamsun Year" has brought co [...]	2009-08-07 14:58:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SCUL KIRF NO
09OSLO90	MINORITY ANGER IN NORWAY RISES [...] (SBU) Summary: A series of anti-Israel demonstrations on January 8 and January 10 erupted into violence in central Oslo as some demonstrators, primarily young Muslim-background youth, clashed with police. The damages, police action and extent of the violence were the worst in Norway since the [...]	2009-02-03 06:02:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KIRF PTER ASEC KPAO KCRM KISL NO
09OUAGADOUGOU217	BURKINA WILL EITHER ABSTAIN OR BE ABSENT FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-24 15:25:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM UV
09PARIS1495	FRENCH RESPONSE TO THE 2009 IRF REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Press and public reaction to the 2009 International Religious Freedom (IRF) report in France has been largely muted since its public release on October 26. However, in a follow up meeting, the MFA offered a more critical response to the report, characterizing the Scientology case [...]	2009-11-06 15:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM PGOV KIRF KISL FR
09PARIS1714	FRENCH MINORITIES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- AN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In early November 2009, President Sarkozy launched a national debate on what it means to be French -- that is, the French "national identity." Confronting an increasingly globalized world and struggling with self-identity issues, including whether Muslim "burqas" should be bann [...]	2009-12-17 12:46:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF FR
09PHNOMPENH890	CAMBODIA AGREES TO PRESS FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador demarched the RGC on the need for the Government of Burma (GOB) to engage Burma's democratic opposition and to move forward with democratic reform and out of isolation. RGC officials agreed that the 2010 elections indeed represented an "open door" for Burma and wer [...]	2009-12-04 10:51:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KIRF BM CB
09PORTLOUIS97	DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS: MAURITIUS WILL ABSTAIN [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-30 12:32:00	Embassy Port Louis	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KIRF MP
09PRETORIA1614	CAUTIOUS HOPES FOR ZUMA AMONG SOME SOUTH AFRICAN [...] (SBU) South African civil society groups are cautiously optimistic about President Jacob Zuma, believing his promises of openness and meaningful dialogue will improve their working environment. Under former President Thabo Mbeki, many groups felt isolated from leadership and shut out from me [...]	2009-08-07 13:22:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF SA KJUS KDEM SF
09PRETORIA561	SOUTH AFRICA TO VOTE YES ON 'DEFAMATION OF [...] South Africa will vote in favor of the "Combating defamation of religions" resolution, if the latter is put to vote in the U.N. Human Rights Council. The DFA's Pitso Montwedi, Chief Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, said that South Africa has supported the resolution in the [...]	2009-03-24 16:22:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF SA
09PRISTINA474	KOSOVO: 2009 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDEOM REPORT [...] (U) As per refs A and B we delivered an oral summary of the Kosovo section of the 2009 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom (IRFR) to Venera Llunji, political adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs at 16:00 local time (11:00 EST) on October 26, and transmitted a hard copy of the [...]	2009-10-30 08:15:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM OPRC KIRF KPAO KV
09RABAT221	MIXED REVIEWS ON MOROCCO'S LEVEL OF RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary: A range of government, religious, and education leaders told EmbOffs and visiting DRL/IRF officer that while tolerance is broadly observed in practice, some problem remain. Government forbearance for perhaps 150 foreign Christian missionaries was being stretched, they said, as p [...]	2009-03-19 18:54:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI KPAO MO
09RABAT230	MOROCCO: FIRST QUARTER 2009 HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: The first quarter of 2009 has seen several incidents of concern in the Moroccan human rights arena. The most significant of these is a late March pressure campaign against Morocco's Shi,a minority, linked to the Government of Morocco's (GOM,s) angry severing of diplomatic relati [...]	2009-03-24 17:43:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL IR MO
09RABAT265	CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES EXPELLED FROM MOROCCO; [...] (C) Summary: Moroccan authorities expelled five expatriate female Christian missionaries from the country Sunday morning for proselytizing and their involvement leading a regular women's Bible study group in Casablanca, according to press and church sources. The Moroccan women in the study [...]	2009-04-01 15:30:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI KPAO KIRF MO
09RABAT281	MOROCCO'S ANTI-SHI'A CAMPAIGN: IRAQIS TARGETED, [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Morocco's campaign against Moroccan Shi'a appears to have abated after delivering a strong message to Islamic activists. The campaign included confiscation of Shi'a books and interrogation of some Shi'a leaders. Civil society is beginning to publicly criticize [...]	2009-04-03 19:07:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS PREL SCUL KIRF KISL IR MO
09RABAT313	MOROCCO: SHI'A THOUGHTS ON RECENT GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Representatives from the Iraqi Shi'a Muslim community met with PolOff to recount recent GOM activities targeting Shi,ites following last month's break in diplomatic relations between Morocco and Iran. While the situation is ameliorating, there remain unresolved issues such as th [...]	2009-04-13 09:03:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS PREL SCUL KIRF KISL IR MO
09RABAT336	MOROCCO: INSIGHTS INTO RECENT MISSIONARY EXPULSION [...] (C) Summary: Morocco's expulsion of five Christian women last month accused of proselytizing has created a flurry of concern among the approximate 4,000 local Christians who meet regularly throughout Morocco. Three local Christian leaders from Casablanca (one of whom legally imports and sells [...]	2009-04-20 14:00:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI KPAO KIRF SP MO
09RIYADH173	THE THIRTEEN DAYS OF ASHURA IN QATIF [...] (SBU) This year's Ashura was overshadowed by the war in Gaza and Saudi security forces were in full force for fear of any impromptu political demonstrations. In late December, EP authorities arrested close to 30 Shi'a who had demonstrated against the Israeli offensive in Gaza, making for an e [...]	2009-01-27 14:27:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL SA
09RIYADH270	THE YOUNG AND RESTLESS SHIA [...] (C) Key Points: ----------------- -- The Saudi Shia youth are frustrated by their leaders' perceived lack of progress in attaining more rights, representation, and opportunities for their community. -- Mainstream Shia leaders desire increased Shia membership on the Shura Council, a minist [...]	2009-02-10 15:26:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER SA
09RIYADH346	SAUDI SHIA CLASH WITH POLICE IN MEDINA [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) Saudi security forces clashed February 20 with between 500 and 2000 Saudi Shi'a pilgrims in Medina after Saudi police denied the pilgrims access to Baqi'a cemetery opposite the Prophet's Mosque. -- (U) Shi'a unhappiness escalated into a confrontation resulting in severa [...]	2009-02-24 07:14:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SA
09RIYADH378	SAUDI KING APPOINTS MODERATE TO CONTINUE REFORMS [...] (U) WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE CPVPV? Saudi Founder King Abdalaziz established the CPVPV to uphold standards of public behavior based upon Shariah law. In Saudi Arabia, the CPVPV is commonly referred to as the "hayy,a," meaning commission. The CPVPV comprises approximately 3,500 officers in ad [...]	2009-03-03 04:57:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL KWMN SA
09RIYADH799	SAUDI RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: TAIF CHRISTIANS UNHINDERED [...] (C) TAIF CHRISTIANS FREE TO WORSHIP In two separate meetings on June 9 and 14, Embassy Indian Christian contacts confirmed that the 14 Taif Christians threatened with deportation in July/August 2008 have been left alone by the Saudi government (Reftel A, B and C). Advised by fellow Christia [...]	2009-06-16 11:07:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SA SOCI KIRF
09RIYADH911	SAUDI EDITOR LAMENTS MUSLIM INSENSITIVITY TO [...] (C) Over breakfast on June 28, Al-Watan Editor-in-Chief Jamal Khashoggi argued to Charge that the influence of the Saudi religious establishment was declining, though this didn't necessarily translate into support for secularization. He attributed intensified religious observance in Saudi Arab [...]	2009-07-12 15:34:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF KISL PGOV SA
09ROME58	(C) VATICAN LIKELY TO UP CRITICISM OVER ISRAELI [...] (C) The Vatican is likely to condemn the Israeli campaign in Gaza more forcefully if the civilian death toll continues to rise. The Holy See supports IsraelQs right to self-defense, but considers the Israeli military campaign deeply counterproductive in the long-term. The Vatican is equally co [...]	2009-01-16 14:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF IS JO VT
09SANAA2042	65 JEWS MAKE THEIR EXODUS FROM YEMEN, RESETTLE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite bureaucratic, logistical, cultural and personal hurdles, 65 Yemeni Jews traveled to the U.S. in 2009 as part of the special P-1 refugee resettlement process. The most recent group of Jewish refugees traveled on October 26 amid death threats from an estranged ex-husband a [...]	2009-11-09 13:42:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF KIRF YM
09SANAA2043	57 JEWS MAKE THEIR EXODUS FROM YEMEN, RESETTLE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite bureaucratic, logistical, cultural and personal hurdles, 57 Yemeni Jews traveled to the U.S. in 2009 as part of the special P-1 refugee resettlement process. The most recent group of Jewish refugees traveled on October 26 amid death threats from an estranged ex-husband a [...]	2009-11-10 04:27:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF KIRF YM
09SANAA2114	THREE GUNMAN ARRESTED NEAR HOME OF YEMENI JEWISH [...] (C) Police officials reported that government security guards at Tourist City, an apartment complex where the ROYG houses and provides protection for 14 Yemeni Jewish families (65 people),detained on November 18 three men acting in a suspicious manner near the home of Rabbi Yahya Bin-Yusuf, [...]	2009-11-23 14:07:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF ASEC YM
09SANAA2178	POPULATION PROJECTIONS OFF THE CHARTS IN YEMEN [...] (SBU) Summary. Population projections in Yemen are among some of the highest in the world. According to the ROYG's National Population Council, the Yemeni population (approximately 23 million) will double within 23 years if current growth rates continue. With assistance from the United Nat [...]	2009-12-09 07:03:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN KIRF ELAB EAID ECON
09SANAA291	INTERIOR MINISTER GIVES AMBASSADOR ASSURANCES ON [...] (C) The Minister of Interior gave the Ambassador on February 16 assurances on a number of issues ranging from reports of recently released al-Qaeda suspects to information sharing with the Embassy to the protection of Yemen's Jewish community. While Post is relatively confident that the issu [...]	2009-02-17 12:05:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF KIRF
09SANAA502	ROYG DIGS IN ITS HEELS ON ISSUANCE OF JEWS' [...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite U.S. pressure, the ROYG continues to stall on the issuance of passports to a group of Reyda Jews, citing discomfort over media attention surrounding the February emigration of a Jewish family to Israel. Families in Reyda reported incidents of rocks thrown at their homes [...]	2009-03-24 11:26:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF KIRF YM
09SANAA596	SOME MEMBERS OF REYDA JEWISH COMMUNITY RECEIVE [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-08 13:42:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF KIRF YM
09SANAA9	JEWS BEGIN MOVE TO SANA'A AFTER STONINGS IN REYDA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After anti-Israel demonstrations turned into a violent episode of stone-throwing on January 4, the Reyda Jews began moving to government housing in Sana'a on January 5. Several people were injured as a result of the violence and at least one man was hospitalized for his injuri [...]	2009-01-05 13:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF KIRF YM
09SAOPAULO660	PT Insiders Say Don't Count Dilma Out [...] (SBU) Summary: Workers Party (PT) insiders acknowledge Dilma Rousseff's 2010 presidential candidacy has run into some problems, but express confidence her campaign will rebound. Across a series of recent meetings, PT leaders in Sao Paulo say Dilma can come from behind and beat likely PSDB no [...]	2009-11-10 10:40:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL KPAO KIRF BR
09SEOUL469	ROK: UN HRC DRAFT "DEFAMATION" RESOLUTION STILL [...] (C) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Human Rights and Social Affairs Division told Poloff on March 24 that the ROK had not yet decided how it would vote on the upcoming UN Human Rights Council resolution on "Combating Defamation of Religions." The draft resolution was still b [...]	2009-03-24 07:58:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF KS
09SHANGHAI162	SHANGHAI'S JEWISH COMMUNITY: BALANCING CULTURAL [...] (C) Shanghai's rapid economic development leaves room for the appreciation of Jewish history and culture, but not for greater religious freedom or historic preservation. Local officials and religious scholars admire the contributions of Jews and Jewish culture to China and Shanghai, but dismis [...]	2009-04-13 03:09:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF SCUL CH
09SHANGHAI178	AMERICAN BISHOP SHARES IMPRESSIONS OF EASTER IN SHANGHAI AND [...] (C) An American Catholic Bishop who was born in Beijing shared his views on celebrating Easter in Shanghai during a lunch with Chinese religious leaders and academics at the Consulate. The Bishop and Chinese guests asserted that much progress has been made for religious believers in Shanghai w [...]	2009-04-17 08:53:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF SCUL CH
09SHANGHAI230	CODEL PELOSI'S MEETING WITH SHANGHAI CATHOLIC BISHOP JIN, [...] (U) Summary. Shanghai Catholic Bishop Jin welcomed Speaker Pelosi and her delegation in their first meeting following arrival in China on May 24, and proclaimed himself to be satisfied with the degree of religious freedom now existing in China. He praised President Obama's May commencement [...]	2009-05-25 10:13:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF SOCI PGOV OVIP PELOSI NANCY CH
09SHANGHAI231	CODEL PELOSI'S MEETING WITH SHANGHAI CATHOLIC BISHOP JIN, [...] (U) Summary. Shanghai Catholic Bishop Jin welcomed Speaker Pelosi and her delegation in their first meeting following arrival in China on May 24, and proclaimed himself to be satisfied with the degree of religious freedom now existing in China. He praised President Obama's May commencement [...]	2009-05-25 10:13:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF SOCI PGOV OVIP PELOSI NANCY CH
09SHANGHAI462	SHANGHAI HOUSE CHURCH CLOSED, PASTOR TEMPORARILY DETAINED [...] (C) Local authorities closed a Shanghai house church and detained the pastor earlier this month, a move that coincided with the closure of a popular house church in Beijing (Refs A and B). Consulate contacts expressed concern that U.S. Government pressure on the Shanghai Municipal Government t [...]	2009-11-24 07:34:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF CH
09SOFIA286	BULGARIA: REACHING OUT TO THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador McEldowney highlighted President Obama's Cairo speech in a meeting with Bulgaria's chief Mufti, stressing our determination to establish a new way forward for U.S. relations with the Muslim world. The Ambassador raised ideas for promoting religious tolerance and voi [...]	2009-06-11 14:44:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	BU KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM
09STATE11119	OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL MEMBERS DECRY VENEZUELA [...] (U) Summary: During the Organization of American States' (OAS) regular Permanent Council meeting on February 4, seven countries spoke out about the January 30-31 synagogue attack in Caracas (see reftel). Five countries, including the United States, decried anti-Semitism in the hemisphere, d [...]	2009-02-06 18:16:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL ASEC VE IS OAS
09STATE1794	AUTHORIZATION FOR YEMEN IN COUNTRY REFUGEE [...] PRM acknowledges receipt of the P-1 referrals and authorizes processing of the six cases (35 individuals) noted in reftels. DHS/USCIS has concurred in this approval. 2. PRM has coordinated with OPE Istanbul and DHS/USCIS to arrange for processing at the earliest possible date, currently sch [...]	2009-01-08 17:29:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PREF YM
09STATE40428	(C) KUDOS FOR REPORTING ON ISLAM IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS WISH TO PROVIDE KUDOS TO POST FOR REFS, WHICH PROVIDED UNIQUE INSIGHTS AND INFORMATION ON ISLAM IN TAJIKISTAN AND ON CENTRAL ASIA. ANALYSTS IN PARTICULAR APPRECIATE EFFORTS MADE BY POST TO MEET WITH VARIOUS ISLAMIC CLERICS THROUGHOUT TAJIKISTAN, WHICH PROVIDED IMPORT [...]	2009-04-22 21:27:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM TI
09STATE44736	U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) will release its Annual Report and recommendations on Countries of Particular Concern for systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom (CPCs) on May 1. This cable clarifies the identity and rol [...]	2009-05-01 23:41:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREF KPAO
09STATE49668	HOST COUNTRY CHURCH-STATE ISSUES: EMBASSY [...] As part of the celebration of 25 years of formal diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Holy See, Embassy Vatican announces the launch of a new intranet web-based, collaborative information-sharing platform reflecting the broad scope of the bilateral relationship and the Vatican's worldwid [...]	2009-05-14 22:36:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KIRF PHUM ACOA VT
09STATE95503	ACTION REQUEST: DEMARCHE GOJ ON HUMAN RIGHTS CASE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. SUMMARY ---------------- 2. (SBU) On June 22, 2009, Islam Samhan, Jordanian poet and journalist for the daily newspaper Al Arab Al Yawm, was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 14,000 USD for using Quranic verses in his book [...]	2009-09-14 22:44:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL KIRF JO

09STPETERSBURG71	RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH REACHES OUT TO ST PETERSBURG'S [...] (SBU) Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill addressed an audience of over 8,000 students at the Ice Palace Stadium in St. Petersburg on May 29, the second in a series of large-scale appearances made recently by the Patriarch. The Patriarch's hour-long address struck a very Western tone and at time [...]	2009-06-11 12:26:00	Consulate St Petersburg	UNCLASSIFIED	RS PGOV KIRF
09SURABAYA10	EAST JAVA: GOVERNOR'S RACE ENDS WITH MURKY LESSONS FOR 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesia's most populous province has finally elected a new governor after one general election and two run-off elections. Unprecedented televised testimony in Indonesia's Constitutional Court triggered a second runoff after vote buying in Madura was revealed. In a province of n [...]	2009-02-03 11:23:00	Consulate Surabaya	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ID KISL KIRF
09SURABAYA109	SHARIA IN EASTERN INDONESIA WANING [...] Summary: While Aceh has gained international attention for new laws mandating stoning for adultery and banning pants for women, sharia law has gained little traction in Eastern Indonesia. Since 2003, 11 local governments have issued just 16 bylaws, most commonly to mandate the giving of alms, [...]	2009-11-09 09:44:00	Consulate Surabaya	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KISL KIRF ID
09SURABAYA4	EAST JAVA AND CENTRAL SULAWESI: RHETORIC HEATS UP PEACEFUL [...] (SBU) Summary: Demonstrations against Israeli military action in the Gaza strip remain peaceful in Surabaya. Four recent demonstrations have focused on the Consulate itself and one on the Consular Agency in Bali. In Surabaya, protestors led by a local leader in the Islamic Cleric's Associa [...]	2009-01-13 10:15:00	Consulate Surabaya	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF PINS ID PHUM KISL
09SUVA421	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THIRD [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-28 05:25:00	Embassy Suva	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHIM KIRF UN FJ
09TASHKENT100	UZBEKISTAN: NEW STUDY ON LABOR MIGRATION [...] (SBU) Summary: In December, the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) office in Tashkent published a new study on labor migration from Uzbekistan based on surveys conducted in 2006 and 2007. While the study does not reflect the impact of the current financial crisis upon labor migratio [...]	2009-01-23 11:48:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON KIRF KTIP PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS KZ UZ
09TASHKENT1243	Uzbekistan: U/S Burns Meets FM Norov [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Burns led an inter-agency delegation to Tashkent on July 12-13 that included NSC Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia Michael McFaul, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East and South Asia David Sedney. Burns used the occasion of a July 12 m [...]	2009-07-17 04:51:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF UZ
09TASHKENT1523	Bukharan Jews Cite Religious Tolerance in Uzbekistan [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief joined members of one of Tashkent's Bukharan Jewish Synagogues on September 25 for their celebration of the beginning of the upcoming Yom Kippur holiday and their (delayed because of Ramadan) celebration of Uzbek Independence Day. Unlike other minority religious communities [...]	2009-09-30 06:23:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KIRF UZ
09TASHKENT1573	Uzbekistan: The Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 26, poloff met with Chairman of Uzbekistan's Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) to discuss concerns of various religious minority groups in the country. In preparation for the meeting and in the days that followed, poloff met with representatives from the Uz [...]	2009-11-09 12:11:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KIRF UZ
09TASHKENT158	TASHKENT TIDBITS FEBRUARY 10, 2008 [...] (SBU) Post has updated its cost of living analysis for Uzbekistan through the end of 2008. At 21.6 percent, the cost of living grew more slowly in 2008 than in 2007, when it increased by 29.2 percent. The cost of foodstuffs increased by only 17.0 percent as contrasted with a 29.1 percent rise [...]	2009-02-11 04:26:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KIRF SOCI PHUM KISL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT177	UZBEKISTAN: REPORTS OF CRACKDOWN ON "NUR" RELIGIOUS GROUP [...] (C) Summary: Uzbek authorities appear to be significantly ratcheting up the pressure on suspected members of the banned Nur (or "Nurcilar") religious organization, which is associated with the conservative (but not extremist) religious teachings and Pan-Turkish ideology of Turkish scholar Feth [...]	2009-02-13 09:26:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL SOCI TU UZ
09TASHKENT206	SUSPECTED AMCIT MISSIONARIES TOLD TO LEAVE UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Authorities have told three AmCits associated with the New Hope faith-based humanitarian assistance NGO, which provides medical assistance to disabled persons in Tashkent, that they must depart Uzbekistan by February 25. Emboffs met with the AmCits, who plan to depart Uzbekistan [...]	2009-02-23 13:31:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC EAID KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT222	UZBEKISTAN: TRIAL OF ALLEGED RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST EXTRADITED [...] (C) Summary: The trial of Haitjon Juraboev, a religious extremist suspect who was extradited by Kyrgyz authorities to Uzbekistan in September 2008, is nearing completion in Tashkent, according to an independent activist monitoring the trial. Juraboev has reportedly pled innocent to all the cha [...]	2009-02-26 13:01:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PREF PREL SOCI UNHCR KG
09TASHKENT277	UZBEKISTAN: "NUR" RELIGIOUS GROUP CRACKDOWN CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: Authorities are continuing a widespread crackdown on suspected members of "Nur," a banned conservative (but not extremist) religious organization associated with Turkish scholar Fethullah Gullen (ref A). According to reports from independent and state-controlled media, at least 1 [...]	2009-03-13 12:31:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL SOCI TU UZ
09TASHKENT3	UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST REPORTS ON KILLING OF AKROMIYIST; [...] (C) Summary: An Andijon-based human rights activist recently reported the killing by law enforcement officials of a young member of "Akromiya," a religious-business organization whose members were at the center of the 2005 Andijon events. The activist specifically requested that the United [...]	2009-01-05 11:16:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER SOCI KG
09TASHKENT361	UZBEKISTAN: RECENT ALLEGATIONS OF PRISONER ABUSE AND DEATHS [...] (C) Summary: In the past few months, independent human rights activists and websites have reported on several serious human rights issues at Uzbek prisons, including deaths in custody. Activists also provided updates on the condition of political prisoners Alisher Karamatov and Sanjar Umarov. [...]	2009-03-26 08:42:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ICRC KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT395	UZBEKISTAN INDICATES AREAS WHERE HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS IS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a report of Uzbekistan's recent Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC),Uzbek officials agreed to several substantive recommendations from other member states on how to improve its human rights record. Uzbek officials also anno [...]	2009-03-30 04:23:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ELAB KIRF KPAO KTIP PGOV PREF PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT449	UZBEKISTAN: SECURITY SERVICES SEEKING TO ENTRAP HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (S/NF) Summary: The National Security Service (NSS) appears to be attempting to entrap the Embassy's Human Rights Officer by arranging meetings for him outside the Embassy on sensitive topics that could then be taped. On at least three separate occasions over the past month, we have strong re [...]	2009-04-06 06:26:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	PHUM KDEM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT451	UZBEKISTAN: THE WAY FORWARD ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: While human rights abuses remain all too common in Uzbekistan, the government has taken some positive steps in certain areas over the past year. Uzbekistan is not posed to become a democracy anytime soon, but we continue to believe that the most effective strategy for curbing abus [...]	2009-04-06 12:40:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID ELAB ICRC KDEM KIRF KISL KTIP PGOV PREL
09TASHKENT463	UZBEK ASYLUM-SEEKER EXTRADITED FROM KYRGYZSTAN RECEIVES [...] (C) On March 30, independent human rights activist Ismoil Adilov provided poloff with court documents regarding the case of Haitjon Juraboev, a religious extremist suspect who was extradited by Kyrgyz authorities to Uzbekistan in September 2008 (reftel). According to the documents, on February [...]	2009-04-07 06:59:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL PGOV PREF PREL SOCI UNHCR KG UZ
09TASHKENT497	UZBEKISTAN: RECENT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting at the Embassy on March 30, independent human rights activist Ismoil Adilov handed over to poloff a collection of court documents from recent trials he had monitored involving suspected religious extremists. The documents demonstrate that at least six women were [...]	2009-04-13 15:47:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KWMN PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT55	UZBEKISTAN: ANATOMY OF A HIZB UT-TAHRIR CASE [...] (C) Summary: This cable examines in depth a recent Hizb ut-Tahrir case reported by state-controlled and independent media and a local human rights activist. While the case highlights on-going abuses in the government's campaign against suspected religious extremists, it also demonstrates how [...]	2009-01-13 10:49:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT559	TASHKENT TIDBITS APRIL 22, 2009 [...] (SBU) We attended a roundtable on transboundary water issues at the Oliy Majlis on March 4. The two hour session was chaired by Sadyk Safaev, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and former Ambassador to the U.S. The roundtable produced nothing new in terms of policy; all speakers [...]	2009-04-22 10:10:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON KIRF SOCI PHUM KISL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT56	UZBEKISTAN: HIZB UT-TAHRIR ARRESTS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary: State-controlled media, independent news website s, and local human rights activists continue to report on arrests in Uzbekistan of suspected members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) religious extremist group, as well as the arrests of other banned religious groups members. In 2008, t [...]	2009-01-13 12:01:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KWMN PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER SOCI
09TASHKENT951	Advancing Religious Freedom: Ambassador's Meeting with Uzbek [...] (C) The Ambassador met on June 10 with First Deputy Foreign Minister Hamidulla Karamatov to discuss reftel points and ways forward on the religious freedom issue. Karamatov said that he understood the importance of the issue and the need to work together to find mutually acceptable langua [...]	2009-06-10 10:31:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF UZ
09TBILISI1100	GEORGIA: ARMENIAN BISHOP DISCUSSES CHALLENGES FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-16 12:00:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF AM GG
09TBILISI1289	GEORGIA: PATRIARCH DISCUSSES CHURCH DELEGATION TO [...] (C) Summary: The Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC),Ilia II discussed relations between Russia and Georgia, including relations between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and GOC over dinner with the Ambassador on July 7. Former Georgian Ambassador to Moscow Zurab Abashidze an [...]	2009-07-10 13:39:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF RU GG
09TBILISI1757	GEORGIA: RADICAL ORTHODOX GROUP STOPS MOSQUE [...] (C) Summary: On September 16, representative of two radical fundamentalist Georgian Orthodox groups, the "Society of Saint David the Builder" and "Union of Orthodox Parents" stopped construction on a mosque in the village of Talaveri. The groups demanded to see the villagers' construction perm [...]	2009-09-23 14:38:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL AZ GG
09TBILISI2106	GEORGIA: CHURCH AND STATE, MAINTAINING A DELICATE [...] (C) Summary: Georgian Government officials are privately expressing frustration over the expansive role the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) plays in society. The long-hidden conflict between the GOC and GOG may be beginning to play out publicly in subtle ways. Internet videos mocking GOC Patr [...]	2009-12-03 14:03:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM GG KIRF
09TBILISI512	GEORGIA: IDPS: NEW AND OLD THEMES [...] (C) Summary: Recent trips to the west Georgian cities of Kutaisi and Zugdidi reinforce the impression that many of the problems for IDPs from the 1990's remain unaddressed, and the GoG's plan to target their needs directly has not yet yielded visible results. While the GoG has been criticiz [...]	2009-03-17 14:05:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF RR GG
09TBILISI538	GEORGIA: GOG TO RECOGNIZE OTHER FAITHS, COULD LEAD [...] (C) Summary: Reintegration Minister Temur Yakobashvili told the Ambassador on March 18 that the GoG is working on a change to the Civil Code to recognize additional churches, namely, the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC),Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim faiths. Currently, only the Georgian Orth [...]	2009-03-20 14:29:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF AR RU GG
09TBILISI657	GEORGIA: PATRIARCH CALLS FOR CALM AHEAD OF APRIL 9 [...] (C) Summary. In an April 1 meeting, Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II expressed concern to the Ambassador that the approaching April 9 opposition protests could escalate into violence. The Patriarch said that President Saakashvili and nearly all the opposition leaders, including Alasania, [...]	2009-04-02 09:26:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF RU GG
09TBILISI770	TWO VERY DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE SAME COIN - [...] (C) Summary: Ethnic Armenian Georgians living in Samtskhe-Javakheti (S-J) generally want their province to remain as part of Georgia, albeit with tacit recognition by Tbilisi of Armenian as a regional language. For Ethnic Armenian Georgians (or Javakhsi),the grass is indeed not greener on [...]	2009-04-22 11:31:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID SCUL KIRF AM GG
09TELAVIV1122	PAPAL VISIT TO ISRAEL UNDERSCORES DIVISIONS MORE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pope Benedict XVI's May 11-15 visit to the Holy Land, while billed as a pilgrimage of reconciliation and peace, served perhaps more to underscore ongoing divisions between Jews and Christians, Muslims and Christians, Israelis and Palestinians, and Israel and the Vatican. Coming [...]	2009-05-20 10:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIRF KPAL VT IS
09TELAVIV2234	MFA CLAIMS POLICE VIDEO PROVES LACK OF SETTLER [...] (C) In light of the Palestinian Authority's decision to request a special session of the UN Human Rights Council linking the Goldstone Report to "events at Al-Aqsa," Foreign Minister Lieberman convinced the Israel National Police to authorize MFA to use a police video of disturbances on the T [...]	2009-10-13 14:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KIRF KWBG IS
09TELAVIV931	MFA CITES MAJOR PROGRESS ON TAXATION ISSUES IN [...] (C) Summary: MFA Director for Religious Affairs Bahij Mansour told Poloff April 27 that the most recent (April 24) working-level talks between Israel and the Vatican resulted in significant progress on several outstanding taxation issues, including an agreement in principle that the Vatican w [...]	2009-04-27 14:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF IS
09TIRANA184	ALBANIAN ISLAMIC COMMUNITY ELECTIONS RIGGED? [...] (C) Summary: On March 18, Selim Muca, Chairman of the Albanian Islamic Community (AIC),announced the AIC would hold elections for the Chairman, and three days later Muca was elected unopposed to another five-year term. However, on March 24, in response to a March 20 lawsuit filed by some AIC [...]	2009-03-25 13:32:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF PREL AL
09TIRANA724	MORE STRIFE IN ISLAMIC COMMUNITY [...] (C) Summary: The latest shakeup in the Albanian Islamic Community (AIC) has resulted in the removal of the AIC's deputy, in a decision that is widely-viewed as illegal and personal. The dismissal appears connected to the former deputy's criticism of the AIC Chairman, but some GOA officials a [...]	2009-11-09 14:41:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM KCOR KIRF AL
09TRIPOLI227	LIBYA RELEASES POLITICAL AND ISLAMIST PRISONERS BUT STILL [...] (C) The head of the Human Rights Society of Libya (HRSL),Muhammed Tarnesh, confirmed to the UK Embassy on March 13 that Jamal al-Haji and Faraj Humaid have been released from detention and are with their families. He did not provide information on the terms of their release or whether legal p [...]	2009-03-17 11:13:00	Embassy Tripoli	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER KIRF LY
09TUNIS306	AMBASSADOR VISITS JEWISH COMMUNITY IN DJERBA [...] (C) Leaders of the Jewish community on the southern island of Djerba were effusive about the support they received from the GOT when giving the Ambassador a tour of El Griba Synagogue, a local Jewish school, and a community center on May 13. The leadership of a school for disabled children [...]	2009-05-20 09:03:00	Embassy Tunis	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO KIRF TS
09TUNIS754	CITING H1N1 CONCERNS, TUNISIA "POSTPONES" THE HAJJ [...] (C) Summary: The Tunisian government has announced it is "postponing" the country's participation in the annual Hajj pilgrimage, citing fears over the spread of the H1N1 virus. While the government is not actually prohibiting participation in a legal sense, the suspension of the GOT's normal [...]	2009-10-09 12:42:00	Embassy Tunis	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL KIRF TBIO TS
09TUNIS800	BISHOP OF TUNIS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (SBU) Underlining the October 26 release of the Department's 2009 International Religious Freedom Report, the Ambassador used the occasion of an October 27 meeting with Monsignor Maroun Lahham, (Roman Catholic) Bishop of Tunis, to seek the prelate's views on religious freedom in Tunisia. Lahha [...]	2009-10-30 16:37:00	Embassy Tunis	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF TS
09USUNNEWYORK638	ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS [...] (U) USUN PolCouns attended a June 22 meeting of the Friends of the Alliance of Civilizations (AOC) as an Observer. The meeting, co-chaired by the Permanent Representatives of Turkey and Spain, provided a briefing on the Second Forum of the AOC, held in Istanbul on April 6-7, 2009, and focused [...]	2009-06-29 16:26:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF KISL SP TU
09USUNNEWYORK641	ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS: AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS [...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 6 below. 2. (SBU) Turkish PermRep Ilkin and Spanish PermRep Yanez-Barnuevo requested a meeting with Ambassador Rice to urge U.S. backing for the Alliance of Civilizations (AOC). They explained that the initiative for the AOC came from their governme [...]	2009-06-30 20:40:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF KISL SP TU
09VALLETTA251	MALTESE OFFICIAL SAYS TWO INFORMAL MOSQUES CLOSED [...] (C) In a May 20 meeting with Charge' and acting DCM, Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) Chairman Austin Walker gave his perspective on the closure last month of two informal mosques in the seaside towns of Sliema and Bugibba. Walker explained that in both instances, Maltese citizen [...]	2009-06-05 15:00:00	Embassy Valletta	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM PREF PREL MT
09VATICAN100	SMALL STEPS, NOT GIANT LEAPS, IN CATHOLIC-RUSSIAN ORTHODOX [...] (C) Summary: The visit of a high-ranking Russian Orthodox leader to Rome last week signaled some improvement in Catholic-Orthodox relations, and more progress is likely at a conference between leaders of both faiths in Cyprus in October. Nevertheless, Cardinal Kasper predicts that a meeting b [...]	2009-09-25 16:56:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF RS VT
09VATICAN101	PATRIARCH DELLY AND TEHRAN ARCHBISHOP COMMENT ON CHRISTIANS [...] (C) Summary: The Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Cardinal Emmanuel Delly, and the Archbishop of Tehran, Ramzi Garmo, briefed polchief on September 25 about problems their communities face in Iraq and Iran. Delly said that there is no organized persecution of Christians in Iraq, ho [...]	2009-10-01 12:11:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF KIRF IZ IR VT
09VATICAN108	EMBASSY VATICAN AIDS CONFERENCE LINKS FAITH-BASED WITH [...] (U) Embassy Vatican and Caritas Internationalis co-hosted a very successful international conference on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS from October 14 to the 16. The conference also aimed at improving access to testing and treatment for children living with HIV and [...]	2009-10-30 17:17:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI KHIV KIRF ECON EAID KHDP TSPL UN XA VT
09VATICAN109	VATICAN HIGH-LEVEL OFFICIAL TO VISIT CUBA NOVEMBER 4 TO 8 [...] (U) The President of the Pontifical Council on Social Communications, Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, will visit Cuba November 4 to 8, according to a Vatican press release. Celli was invited by the Cuban Conference of Bishops. He is scheduled to participate in the Bishops' Conference meetings [...]	2009-11-03 19:20:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KIRF CU VT
09VATICAN11	CHURCH UNITY ONE, CATHOLIC-JEWISH RELATIONS ZERO [...] (S) Summary: The Pope's decision to reinstate communion with a breakaway Catholic group that included a Holocaust-denying cleric (ref A) proved that his highest concern is the long-term religious well-being of the Church, not the Holy See's relations with other sovereign states. This religion-first [...]	2009-01-27 16:52:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PGOV PREL KIRF PHUM JO IS VT
09VATICAN111	VATICAN: GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On November 5 post shared with the Vatican's point person on UNGA matters, Monsignor Osvaldo Neves, ref. demarche points. While the Holy See, as a UN observer, does not have a vote at the UNGA, it appreciates knowing about the U.S. position. DIAZ [...]	2009-11-05 16:16:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF VT
09VATICAN113	THE VATICAN AND THE ANGLICANS: OPPORTUNITY OR OPPORTUNISM? [...] (C) The upcoming visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury to Rome November 21 will take place with the background of the Vatican's far-reaching decision to facilitate the conversion of disaffected Anglicans to Catholicism. Embassy contacts approving the measure interpret it as a bold and appropriate r [...]	2009-11-09 12:02:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF UK VT
09VATICAN117	VATICAN TWO-STEP WITH CUBA: CRITICIZE EMBARGO, ASK GOC FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli requested greater mass communication freedom for the Catholic Church in Cuba during his visit to the island November 6 to 8. On his return to Rome, he criticized U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba. The Vatican's approach to Havana remains to p [...]	2009-11-17 17:32:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ETTC PREL KIRF CU VT
09VATICAN118	VATICAN: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS DEMARCH DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On November 18 post shared demarche points with Vatican point officials on UNGA and Middle East matters, Monsignor Alberto Ortega and Monsignor Osvaldo Neves. While the Holy See, as a UN observer, does not have a vote at the UNGA, it appreciates knowing about the U.S. position. DIAZ [...]	2009-11-18 15:07:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF IS VT
09VATICAN122	AMIDST CONTROVERSY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MEETS POPE [...] (S) Summary: During his recent visit to Rome and meeting with the Pope --planned before the Pope urged disaffected Anglicans to convert to Catholicism-- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams challenged the position of the Catholic Church on ordination of women and made it clear that the Vat [...]	2009-11-30 17:19:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI UK VT
09VATICAN123	AMIDST CONTROVERSY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MEETS POPE [...] (S) Summary: During his recent visit to Rome and meeting with the Pope --planned before the Pope urged disaffected Anglicans to convert to Catholicism-- Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams challenged the position of the Catholic Church on ordination of women and made it clear that the Vatican s [...]	2009-11-30 17:19:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI UK VT
09VATICAN126	RUSSIA AND THE VATICAN ESTABLISH FORMAL RELATIONS, FOR [...] (C) On December 3, Russian President Medvedev and Pope Benedict XVI upgraded Russian-Holy See ties to "full" diplomatic relations. The announcement coincides with a period of warmer relations between the Vatican and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill (reftel) and the Holy See hopes the move wi [...]	2009-12-04 16:33:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL KIRF RS VT
09VATICAN13	POPE REMEMBERS THE HOLOCAUST, WARNS AGAINST DENIAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-28 21:24:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF VT
09VATICAN133	(C) VATICAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON AMCITS DETAINED IN IRAN, [...] (S) Begin Summary and Introduction: At a December 16 meeting requested by Ambassador Diaz, the Vatican's Foreign Minister said the Papal Nuncio in Iran has been asked to intercede in the case of three Amcits detained there; Mamberti said the Vatican would be pleased to be of assistance in that [...]	2009-12-16 15:49:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PREL PHUM CASC KIRF VT IR HO UG UNGA
09VATICAN134	AN INVENTORY OF THE VATICAN'S INTERFAITH DIALOGUES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Vatican is a leader or partner in many inter-religious dialogues, primarily with the "Abrahamic" religions - Islam, Judaism, and of course, other Christians. Vatican leaders are also beginning to reach out to Asian faiths. This cable describes the Vatican's primary, organized dia [...]	2009-12-18 11:44:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI SCUL VT
09VATICAN135	INTERFAITH DIALOGUE: A VIEW FROM THE VATICAN [...] (U) In an era of growing contacts and conflicts between faith communities, interfaith dialogue -- to increase understanding and in pursuit of concrete objectives -- is increasingly important. The Holy See is an active proponent and participant in a wide range of these dialogues, in order to [...]	2009-12-18 11:53:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI SCUL VT
09VATICAN137	PROPOSALS FOR COLLABORATING WITH THE VATICAN ON INTERFAITH [...] (U) Catholics and the organized Catholic Church are present in virtually every country of the world, and the Holy See is second only to the United States in terms of relations with other states. Given this near-universal presence and the Vatican's critical role in interfaith dialogues, Embassy [...]	2009-12-18 12:45:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM SOCI SCUL KIRF VT
09VATICAN14	POPE REMEMBERS THE HOLOCAUST, WARNS AGAINST DENIAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-28 21:24:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF VT
09VATICAN16	EMBASSY VATICAN CONFERENCE CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF FORMAL [...] (U) In honor of the 25th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations with the Holy See, Embassy Vatican convened an international conference on the American model of church-state relations on January 13, 2009. More than 200 officials, academics, diplomats, and students seized the opportunity t [...]	2009-01-29 10:16:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO KIRF SOCI VT
09VATICAN23	VATICAN DISAPPOINTED WITH NICARAGUA'S SANDINISTAS [...] (C) Summary: The Vatican is disturbed by the Frente Sandinista use of religious symbols for political purposes (reftel) and supports the Nicaraguan bishops' position on the issue. Vatican officials are also concerned about deteriorating political and economic conditions in Nicaragua, and hop [...]	2009-02-09 16:34:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF NI VT
09VATICAN26	SCENESETTER FOR CONGRESSMAN FALEOMAVAEGA FEBRUARY 18-22 [...] (U) Summary: We are pleased to provide some background on US relations with the Holy See. This unique relationship between two global powers with worldwide interests and influence turned 25 in January 2009, and helps advance our shared goals of human dignity every day. Among the issues on wh [...]	2009-02-13 17:01:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF PHUM OREP VT
09VATICAN27	POPE MEETS SPEAKER PELOSI [...] (U) The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, held a brief private meeting with the Pope on February 18. Speaker Pelosi was in Rome leading a Congressional Delegation visiting Italy and Vatican City State. Only the Speaker and Mr. Pelosi participated in the meeting, while t [...]	2009-02-18 15:33:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF OREP VT
09VATICAN28	THE HOLY SEE: A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE [...] (C) Summary: Together with other flaps, the recent global controversy over the lifted excommunication of a Holocaust denying bishop (reftel) exposed a major disconnect between Pope Benedict XVI's stated intentions and the way in which his message is received by the wider world. There are many cause [...]	2009-02-20 16:00:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECPS PHUM PGOV KPAO KIRF VT
09VATICAN29	CORRECTED COPY: POPE MEETS SPEAKER PELOSI [...] (U) The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, held a brief private meeting with the Pope on February 18. Speaker Pelosi was in Rome leading a Congressional Delegation visiting Italy and Vatican City State. Only the Speaker and Mr. Pelosi participated in the meeting, while t [...]	2009-02-25 13:26:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF OREP VT
09VATICAN31	PAPAL STATEMENTS AND NORTHERN SRI LANKA [...] (C) Summary: A/DCM and poloff met on February 27 with the Vatican's point person on Sri Lanka, Monsignor Joseph Murphy, to discuss the situation in that country and ongoing efforts to press the LTTE to allow the departure of civilians from conflict zones. Murphy strongly supports the efforts [...]	2009-02-27 18:29:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF PTER KIRF CE VT
09VATICAN38	HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR POPE'S FIRST AFRICA TRIP [...] (SBU) Summary: The Vatican hopes that the Pope's March 17-23 visit to Cameroon and Angola will solidify the foundations of the Church in a continent where Catholicism is growing rapidly. The trip also comes as an opportunity for the Pope to change the subject, following weeks of controversies [...]	2009-03-13 17:44:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF KECF AID XA AO CM VT
09VATICAN41	IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO VATICAN ON CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ AND [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Ambassador to the Holy See Albert Yelda denied to CDA and ADCM rumors that the Kurdish government was behind violence against Christians in Mosul. While recognizing that provincial elections were peaceful, Yelda worried about rivalries among Christians and tensions between [...]	2009-03-17 18:10:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KIRF IZ VT
09VATICAN42	VATICAN VIEWS ON SAUDI GOVERNMENT REFORMS; DIALOGUE WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Vatican's Arabian Peninsula Director said the Holy See considered recent Cabinet changes in Saudi Arabia significant but "oversold". The decision to include all schools of Sunni jurisprudence in the Council of Senior Ulamas was far more meaningful. The Vatican still expected [...]	2009-03-18 13:03:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PREL KIRF PHUM VT SA
09VATICAN43	VATICAN SEEKS GREATER DIALOGUE WITH ASIAN FAITHS [...] (SBU) Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Holy See's Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, told Charge d'Affaires on March 17 that he plans to increase his engagement with Hindus, Buddhists and Shintoists this year. He said the Vatican has focused considerably on dialogue [...]	2009-03-24 13:20:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF ID JA IN VT
09VATICAN47	(C) VATICAN WILL APPEAL TO IRAN TO RELEASE SABERI [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel demarche to Monsignor Franco Coppola, Holy See director for the Middle East, on March 31. Coppola, who had not previously heard of the case, listened attentively. He asked several questions about the USG interest in the case, including whether the USG m [...]	2009-03-31 14:26:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC KJUS PREL PHUM KIRF IR VT
09VATICAN5	VATICAN OFFICIAL ON INDIA-PAKISTAN CONFLICT AND INDIAN APPROACH TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-09 17:29:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF IN PK VT
09VATICAN54	HOLY SEE TURNS OUT THE LIGHTS [...] Summary: The dome of Saint Peter's Basilica plunged into darkness March 28 signaling Vatican City's participation in Earth Hour 2009. Environmental issues have moved more to the front burner since Pope Benedict XVI assumed office in 2005 and the Vatican has initiated several highly publicize [...]	2009-04-14 14:36:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KIRF ENRG SENV SOCI TNGD TRGY TSPL KTIA VT
09VATICAN55	POPE ADDRESSES GLOBAL ISSUES IN EASTER MESSAGE [...] Pope Benedict XVI called for a rediscovery of the grounds for hope during his Easter day message to "the city of Rome and the world" (urbi et orbi). Reflecting on his recent visit to Cameroon and Angola, the pontiff - who turns 82 on April 16 - said Africa suffers disproportionately for war, [...]	2009-04-15 10:51:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM VT
09VATICAN57	(C) RECENT TAX AND PROPERTY TALKS WITH ISRAEL A FAILURE, [...] (S) Summary: The Holy See chief negotiator says the latest talks on implementation of the Vatican-Israel Fundamental Agreement (reftel) were a complete "failure." In an unusually frank move, the Holy See official shared his negotiating diary with the Embassy to detail how the talks broke down. [...]	2009-04-16 13:03:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PREL PGOV KIRF IS VT
09VATICAN58	HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTION:VATICAN WELCOMES U.S. [...] (SBU) The Vatican welcomes the U.S. candidacy to the UN Human Rights Council. For the Secretariat of State's point person on human rights, Monsignor Christophe El-Kassis, it is another positive sign of the new administration's commitment to multilateralism and dialogue. While the Holy See, a [...]	2009-04-17 17:23:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF VT
09VATICAN59	(C) VATICAN HOPES FOR BETTER U.S.-CUBA TIES, IN PART TO REIN [...] (C) Summary: The Holy See welcomes President Obama's new outreach to Cuba and hopes for further steps soon, perhaps to include prison visits for the wives of the Cuban Five. Better U.S.-Cuba ties would deprive Hugo Chavez of one of his favorite screeds and could help restrain him in the region, acc [...]	2009-04-22 16:27:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF VT CU VE BL
09VATICAN60	VATICAN AND ARAB LEAGUE SIGN AGREEMENT TO PROMOTE PEACE AND [...] (U) The Holy See and the Arab League signed a Memorandum of Understanding April 23 to strengthen joint projects to promote peace and dialogue, especially on the political and cultural level. The Memorandum was signed by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, representing the Holy See, and by Amr Mou [...]	2009-04-24 17:54:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM SOCI KISL KIRF SCUL PTER VT
09VATICAN61	(C) VATICAN PESSIMISTIC ON CHINA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Vatican's point person for relations with China sees no change in the PRC's hard line towards the Catholic Church. Chinese Catholics loyal to the Pope risk detention, while clergy in the government-approved Patriotic Association are "treated like children" and strictly control [...]	2009-04-24 19:54:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF PHUM CH TW VT
09VATICAN62	LUKASHENKA MEETS POPE IN ROME [...] (U) President Lukashenka of Belarus met the Pope on Monday, April 27. Lukashenka had requested the meeting. Other than confirming the meeting took place, the Holy See has not issued yet any other information about it. 2. (C) In anticipation of the Papal private audience, ADCM reached ou [...]	2009-04-27 11:37:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF BO VT
09VATICAN64	VATICAN ADDRESSED HUMAN RIGHTS WITH LUKASHENKA [...] (C) The Vatican's point person on relations with Belarus, Monsignor Julio Murat, told ADCM on April 29 that human rights were discussed during the meetings that President Lukashenka had with the Pope and Secretary of State Bertone on April 27 (reftel). Murat added that most of the conversatio [...]	2009-04-30 20:34:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF BO VT
09VATICAN74	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON GLOBAL ACTION FOR FOOD SECURITY [...] Poloff met on June 18 with the Vatican's point person on food security, Dr.Paolo Conversi, to deliver the points listed in reftel. Conversi appreciated U.S. financial support for agricultural development, noting that U.S. views are consistent with the Pope's October 2008 World Food Day [...]	2009-06-19 13:44:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID PREL KIRF VT
09VATICAN82	POPE DISMISSES STAFFERS INVOLVED IN HOLOCAUST DENIER [...] (SBU) On July 8, the Pope quietly let go the Vatican personnel who had this spring recommended the restoration of communion with a break-away Catholic movement that included a Holocaust-denying bishop. Although the Pope clarified that he was not aware of Bishop Williamson's views at the time [...]	2009-07-09 08:51:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF VT
09VATICAN83	(C) VATICAN: ZELAYA A PROBLEM, BUT DON'T PENALIZE HONDURANS [...] (C) Summary: In dealing with the recent constitutional crisis in Honduras (ref. A),the Vatican wants above all to avoid hurting the Honduran people. The Holy See wants international support for development programs there and contacts with Honduran institutions and Embassies to continue. The [...]	2009-07-15 16:30:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM ECON HO VT
09VATICAN86	VATICAN ON CHRISTIANS IN PAKISTAN, RECONCILIATION IN SRI [...] (C) Summary: The Vatican expressed solidarity with the Christian community in Pakistan following recent attacks, and pointed to education, jobs and changes in blasphemy laws as the way forward. In Sri Lanka, the message of the newly-installed Catholic Archbishop of Colombo to the Government [...]	2009-08-07 15:19:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF PHUM PK CE VT
09VATICAN94	TONY BLAIR AND OTHERS SPEAK ON FAITH TO HUGE INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) More than one hundred thousand Catholics attended the thirtieth annual meeting of the "Communion and Liberation" (CL) Catholic lay movement from August 23-28 in Rimini (northern Italy),and heard messages from a wide range of international figures. Indeed, according to organizers, the comb [...]	2009-09-04 15:37:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF VT
09VATICAN95	INTERFAITH DIATRIBES TURN TO DIALOGUE IN KRAKOW AT ANNUAL [...] (U) Summary: At the 22nd edition of an annual interfaith dialogue to promote peace, held this year in Krakow with thousands of observers, hundreds of senior religious and political leaders expressed great agreement on themes like food security. They also engaged in some interfaith sniping, un [...]	2009-09-14 14:10:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SOCI PGOV KIRF VT PL
09VATICAN97	SYNAGOGUE AND LEFEBVRITES IN THE VATICAN'S FALL AGENDA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Holy See's spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, confirmed September 15 that talks between the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and the Holy See will resume in October. Roughly at the same time, Pope Benedict will visit Rome's main synagogue. If managed properly, these two sepa [...]	2009-09-23 13:47:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF VT
09VIENNA1026	AUSTRIA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: STRUGGLING THROUGH CONTROVERSY [...] (U) Summary: The Austrian Catholic Church has had a number of high-profile clashes with the Vatican in 2009. Cardinal Schoenborn, Archbishop of Vienna and head of the Austrian Bishops' Conference, publicly criticized the Pope's decision in January to rescind the excommunication of a bishop who [...]	2009-08-12 15:01:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF VN AU
09VIENTIANE293	IRF VISITS PROVINCIAL LAOS TO GAUGE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (SBU) Summary: In May, DRL Office of International Religious Freedom (DRL/IRF) officer traveled with PolOff through three northern provinces - Luang Prabang, Oudomxay, and Luang Namtha - to assess religious freedom conditions. Predictably, the further away the officers traveled from Vientiane [...]	2009-06-19 05:07:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI LA
09VLADIVOSTOK13	AMCIT RABBI ORDERED DEPORTED FOR VISA VIOLATION [...] On February 12, a district court in Vladivostok declared American citizen Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein to be in violation of his visa status and ordered him to leave the country. The rabbi had been in Russia for several months on a cultural visa and had been working at the Jewish Religious and C [...]	2009-02-12 18:25:00	Consulate Vladivostok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CASC KIRF PHUM RS
09YAOUNDE224	POPE'S UPCOMING VISIT TO CAMEROON DRAWS MIXED [...] (U) SUMMARY : Pope Benedict XVI will visit Cameroon March 17-20, for both a state visit and to conduct internal meetings with church officials from around Africa. This visit has met with mixed local press, including some criticism of the trip,s cost and church fundraising efforts. The Pope's [...]	2009-03-05 16:09:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	CM PGOV PREL VT PHUM KIRF
09YAOUNDE286	CAMEROON GIVES POPE ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME, AMID [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Pope's March 17-20 day visit to Cameroon went smoothly, drawing large, enthusiastic crowds. The Pope drew criticism for his pre-arrival comments to the international press about condom usage. Government efforts to clean up the city (including the destruction of many illegal [...]	2009-03-26 15:32:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO CM VT PGOV PREL KIRF PHUM
09YEKATERINBURG61	YEKATERINBURG OUTREACH TO MUSLIMS EXPANDS - IFTAR 2009 [...] The U.S. Consulate General in Yekaterinburg observed the end of Ramadan by hosting an Iftar for 40 prominent Muslim religious leaders, business people, politicians, diplomats, journalists, teachers, and NGO activists on September 15, 2009 at the Consul General's residence. The Consulate's gue [...]	2009-10-02 06:16:00	Consulate Yekaterinburg	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PGOV PHUM RS
09YEREVAN107	PROPOSED LAW THREATENS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN ARMENIA [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-18 17:50:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF AM
09YEREVAN168	DAS MATTHEW BRYZA DISCUSSES GEORGIA AND NK WITH [...] (C) During his meeting with EUR DAS Matthew Bryza, the Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II, expressed hope for a resolution of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. He was less optimistic about a resolution of the growing dispute with the Georgian Church regarding the legal status of the Armen [...]	2009-03-09 14:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SCUL KIRF GG AM

09YEREVAN314	ARMENIANS CONVEY GEORGIA CONCERNS TO VISITING [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Ambassador to Georgia John Tefft met with the Armenian MFA and Armenia's top religious leader during a visit April 27 to discuss regional issues. Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharian emphasized Armenia's desire for good relations with Georgia, but also relayed Armeni [...]	2009-05-12 14:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF GG AM
09YEREVAN339	ARMENIA RENOVATES 800-YR OLD JEWISH CEMETERY [...] (U) On May 11, Ambassador joined the Vayats Dzor governor, churchmen, foreign diplomats, scholars and dignitaries to dedicate the renovation of Armenia's ancient Jewish cemetery located near the Armenian village of Yeghegis, in the Vayats Dzor region in the south of the country. Thirteen years [...]	2009-05-18 11:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI SCUL EAID KIRF IL AM
09YEREVAN517	POLICY CHANGE TOWARDS MINORITY FAITHS IN ARMENIA? [...] (C) On July 16, Father Ktrij Devejian (please protect AMCIT),the foreign press secretary of the "Catholicosate of All Armenians Mother See of Holy Echmiatsin," briefed the Ambassador on recent church developments. According to Fr. Ktrij, CatQS"QakQEQor of individual Armenian Church clerics. [...]	2009-07-23 06:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF AM
09YEREVAN83	ARMENIAN CHURCH COMPLAINS OF NO MOVEMENT ON ITS [...] (C) Poloff met with Armenian Apostolic Bishop Arshak Khachatrian, Chancellor of the Mother See of Holy Ejmiatsin, on February 3, to follow up on the Armenian view of the conflict over the Norashen Church in Tbilisi and to find out if the Armenian Church had received any notification from its G [...]	2009-02-12 11:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SCUL KIRF GG AM
09YEREVAN830	ARMENIAN YEZIDIS: POVERTY, EDUCATION, AND ETHNIC [...] (U) In September and October 2009, Embassy officers met with members of the ethnic Yezidi community, Armenia's largest minority group. Ethnic identity, education, and endemic poverty are the main issues that confront the Yezidis. There is a dispute in the Yezidi community as to whether Yezidis [...]	2009-12-03 09:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ASEC PTER PREF SMIG SOCI KWMN KIRF
09YEREVAN882	ARMENIAN CATHOLICOS LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] The Ambassador received a letter from His Holiness, Karekin II, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church addressed to President Obama regarding the outstanding issues concerning ethnic and religious minorities in the Republic of Georgia. Text of the letter follows below. The Ambassador will [...]	2009-12-22 09:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC KIRF GG AM
10ANKARA209	TURKEY: USMISSION GENEVA CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. USMission Geneva Charge d'Affaires Griffiths and Deputy Legal Adviser Mansfield visited Ankara February 1 to discuss the defamation of religions resolution and draft treaty being planned by the OIC in the UN Human Rights Council. They met with Turkey's Ambassador for Human Rights [...]	2010-02-09 08:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF UN TU AORC
10ASHGABAT219	TURKMENISTAN: BAPTISTS UNDER PRESSURE IN VILLAGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Four Baptist leaders of nonregistered church groups in rural Lebap Province described interfaith tension and official harrassment in their respective villages. According to the pastors, there is growing Baptist presence, but local officials and Muslim leaders are actively discour [...]	2010-02-17 11:04:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
10ASHGABAT231	TURKMENISTAN: HARE KRISHNA LEADER VISITS AFTER [...] (C) On February 22, poloff met with visiting Hare Krishna spiritual leader Govinder Swami to discuss the situation of religious freedom in Turkmenistan. Based in India, Govinder Swami is responsible for Hare Krishna groups in Central Asia, Tatarstan and Mauritius. He spends a few months each [...]	2010-02-23 06:41:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
10ASHGABAT31	TURKMENISTAN: BAPTIST CHURCH REMAINS ACTIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Baptist church in Ashgabat held Christmas services last month at which it distributed a large number of Turkmen language Bibles. Despite occasional access to religious literature such as these Bibles, officials continue to target church members upon arrival at the airport, [...]	2010-01-07 12:40:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
10ASHGABAT39	TURKMENISTAN: LOCAL EVANGELICAL ORGANIZATION [...] (C) On January 6, poloff met with Murad Kerimi, the leader of the Ashgabat-based unregistered Protestant religious group "Word of Love" Church and the unregistered "Turkmen Golden Age" ("TAA" for Turkmen Altyn Asyr) humanitarian organization. Regarding TAA, Kerimi explained that its efforts s [...]	2010-01-08 11:57:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
10ASHGABAT48	TURKMENISTAN: EVANGELICAL GROUP MAINTAINS LOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. A small group of local evangelical Protestants manages to practice its beliefs without hindrance by the government, due primarily to the group's extremely low profile. The group eschews denominational ties, traditional church trappings, and links with foreign churches, consider [...]	2010-01-13 12:41:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV KISL PHUM TX
10ASHGABAT75	TURKMENISTAN: UPS AND DOWNS OF TWO CHARISMATIC [...] (C) On January 18, poloff met with the leader of the unregistered Turkmenbashy-based Word of Life group, Timur Muradov, during his visit to Ashgabat (Ref A). A member of an unregistered group of the same name in Ashgabat, Batyr, also attended the meeting (Ref B). Muradov participated at the [...]	2010-01-19 13:23:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV TX
10ASMARA16	16 MONTHS UNDERGROUND FOR "THE WRONG RELIGION" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Selam Reta (please protect),spent 16 months of her life in an underground cell at the Wi'a prison and was subjected to daily physical torture for being a member of the Berhane Hiwet Evangelical Church, a banned religious group. Selam was released after 16 months only after develo [...]	2010-01-25 11:46:00	Embassy Asmara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI ER
10ASTANA24	NORTHERN KAZAKHSTAN PROMOTES INTER-RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During recent visits to Kazakhstan's Kostanai and North Kazakhstan Oblasts (refs A-C),officials, civil society representatives, and leaders of the Russian Orthodox and Islamic communities emphasized the regions' r [...]	2010-01-12 05:04:00	Embassy Astana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI KIRF RS KZ
10BAGHDAD185	OPPORTUNITIES AND PERILS FOR MINORITIES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Christian political and religious leaders tell us that while they had hoped for more than a five-seat quota in the national elections law, they view March 7 elections as an opportunity to expand their representation and influence within the Parliament. In contrast, leaders of the [...]	2010-01-25 13:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	KDEM KIRF PGOV IZ
10BAGHDAD318	VIOLENCE AGAINST IRAQI CHRISTIANS DROPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite a recent up-tick in violence against Christians living in Ninewa over the past two months, a new report by an Iraqi NGO indicates that the number of Iraqi Christians killed has dropped by 82 percent since 2007. In addition, top officials at the non-Muslim Endowment report [...]	2010-02-07 10:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	KIRF PTER PHUM IZ
10BAGHDAD505	PRT NINEWA: IRAQI CHRISTIANS FEEL UNDER SIEGE IN [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (U) Summary. The city of Mosul's estimated 3,000 Christians, an already diminishing community, has suffered another round of targeted violence. Over the first three weeks of February, assailants have brutally assassina [...]	2010-02-25 12:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KIRF PINS KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD523	PRT NINEWA: ARCHBISHOP OF NINEWA DESCRIBES CLIMATE [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. Ninewa's Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Emile Nouna, meeting with USG officials for the first time since his January installation, described how Christian families are leaving Mosul after a recent spate of ta [...]	2010-02-28 08:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINS KIRF IZ
10BAGHDAD61	DIYALA PROVINCE: PERCEPTIONS OF SECTARIANISM [...] (U) This is a Diyala Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary: A spate of arrests and assassinations of Sunni leaders and a perception of sectarian bias among the Iraqi Police in the strategically important Muqdadiyah area of Diyala are undermining reconciliation efforts [...]	2010-01-10 15:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PTER KISL KIRF KCOR SOCI IZ
10BAKU138	HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS NOW FOCUS ON RELIGIOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 22 poloff met with three of Azerbaijan's leading human rights defenders for an update on their major concerns. Topping their list were increasing Iranian-inspired religiosity and property rights, as well as political prisoners and NGO registration problems. The righ [...]	2010-02-26 12:45:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KIRF KISL IR AJ
10BAKU39	AZERBAIJAN: DIPLOMATS HARASSED IN NAKHCHIVAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: As detailed in reftel A, on December 28 and January 5, police mistreated hundreds and arrested dozens of residents of Bananyar, a small village in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan. Poloff and a political LES joined the Norwegian DCM on a fact-finding trip to Nakhchivan on Ja [...]	2010-01-19 13:43:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KIRF AJ
10BELGRADE248	SERBIA: PATRIARCH TELLS AMBASSADOR HE WANTS TO "REINTRODUCE" [...] (SBU) During a courtesy call with Ambassador Warlick on February 12, Patriarch Irinej assessed the current state of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC),expressed a desire to "reintroduce" Serbia to Europe and the United States, and touched on the future of Church relations with the Vatican and [...]	2010-02-12 17:03:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SR KV
10BERLIN37	BERLIN SENATE ADMINISTRATION DEFENDS DECISION TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Division Director for Foreigner Issues at the Berlin Senate Administration for Interior Issues and Sport, Peter Marhofer, firmly defended his office's denial of residency permits for two AmCit Scientologists to Embassy PolOff on both technical grounds and based on their Scientol [...]	2010-01-12 11:11:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	GM KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL
10CAIRO141	UPPER EGYPT SECTARIAN ATTACK UPDATE [...] Key Points: - (SBU) On January 17, Egypt's State Information Service (SIS) announced that the trial of the three suspects in the January 6 attack on Coptic Christians in Naga Hamadi, Qena Governorate, will begin on February 13 (ref A). - (SBU) The three suspects will be tried under Emergency Law pr [...]	2010-01-28 15:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG
10CAIRO153	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM COMMISSION VISITS EGYPT - SECTARIAN ATTACK [...] (SBU) A delegation from the United States International Religious Freedom Commission (USCIRF),consisting of three commissioners and three staff members led by the USCIRF chairman, visited Cairo from January 22 to 26. The delegation met with the Minister of Islamic Endowments, the Grand [...]	2010-02-03 15:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL EG KPAO
10CAIRO163	DAS WITTES ENGAGES GOE, CIVIL SOCIETY ON ELECTIONS, NAGA [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In meetings January 24-25, NEA DAS Tamara Cofman Wittes assured activists of continuing U.S. commitment to promoting democracy and human rights. She urged the GOE to use the penal code, not the Emergency Law, to prosecute the January 6 sectarian killings in Naga Hamadi [...]	2010-02-04 15:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
10CAIRO233	A/S POSNER ENGAGES WITH GOE, ACTIVISTS ON NAGA HAMADI [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In January 12-14 meetings, A/S Posner urged the GOE to hold accountable those responsible for the January 6 Naga Hamadi sectarian killings, and to issue additional statements of condemnation. -- (C) Senior Interior Ministry and MFA officials said the perpetrators [...]	2010-02-23 09:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI EG
10CAIRO235	A/S POSNER PRESSES GOE OFFICIALS ON THE EMERGENCY LAW [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) In January 12-14 meetings, A/S Posner stressed that U.S. human rights policy is based on principled engagement, universal standards and a recognition that reform will come from internal actors. In all instances, he cited President Obama's announcement on his second day [...]	2010-02-23 12:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KIRF EG
10CAIRO253	UPR REACTION: GOE DISPLEASED WITH THE U.S., ACTIVISTS [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) GOE officials, including presidential advisor Soliman Awad, expressed displeasure with the number and the tone of U.S. recommendations at the February 17 UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt's human rights record. -- (C) The MFA noted [...]	2010-02-25 15:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UN KIRF EG
10CAIRO47	SCENESETTER FOR A/S POSNER'S JANUARY 12-15 [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) The impact of the political reform process that started at the beginning of this decade is mixed. Activists and opposition politicians are increasingly engaged in political life and the independent press has achieved a substantial degree of freedom to criticize the government. [...]	2010-01-06 14:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF ELAB EG
10CAIRO59	UPPER EGYPT SECTARIAN ATTACK [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) On January 7, gunmen armed with automatic weapons fired on Coptic Orthodox Christians as they were leaving Christmas Mass at the Mar Johanna (Saint John's) Church in Naga Hamadi, Qena Governorate, in Upper Egypt. Six Copts and one Muslim police officer guarding the church died [...]	2010-01-11 12:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG
10CAIRO64	EGYPT'S EMERGENCY LAW AND ITS BROAD USES [...] KEY POINTS -- Egypt's State of Emergency, in effect almost continuously since 1967, allows for the application of the 1958 Emergency Law, which grants the GOE broad powers to arrest individuals without charge and to detain them indefinitely. -- The Emergency Law creates state security cour [...]	2010-01-12 09:25:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM KIRF ELAB EG
10CAIRO99	ACTIVISTS, BLOGGERS DETAINED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO [...] KEY POINTS -- (SBU) The GOE arrested and detained a group of about 30 activists and bloggers the morning of January 15 as they arrived in Naga Hamadi to visit the families of those killed in the January 6 sectarian shootings (ref A). -- (SBU) The group of detainees included activists from secular [...]	2010-01-19 14:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
10CASABLANCA19	MOROCCAN CHRISTIANS COMPLAIN OF GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Government of Morocco (GOM) security forces raided a meeting of 11 Moroccan Christian converts and one American Citizen (AMCIT) in a rural village south of Marrakech on February 4. The police temporarily detained the Moroccans, expelled the AMCIT and confiscated their computers, [...]	2010-02-09 14:43:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM MO
10CHENNAI17	BJP STATE GOVERNMENT RESPONDS TO RECENT CHURCH ATTACKS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Several acts of vandalism against Christian sites in Karnataka over the past several days may be the work of the Hindu extremist Sri Ram Sena, the same outfit responsible for multiple violent incidents in the state over the past 18 months. The group reportedly sent a letter to a [...]	2010-01-28 08:41:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR IN
10CHENNAI45	ALLEGED "LOVE JIHAD" HEATS RELIGIOUS TENSIONS IN SOUTH [...] (U) Summary: An alleged conspiracy of "foreign-funded" Muslim men attempting to seduce, marry, and convert Hindu and Christian women, has led to state-level investigations and generated widespread suspicions in South India. The media has dubbed the so-called conspiracy a "Love Jihad," and top [...]	2010-02-26 06:44:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR IN
10CHISINAU23	PROSECUTOR FINES MENORAH-PROTESTING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 12 meeting with the Charge, Prosecutor General Valeriu Zubco argued that Moldovan law gave him no choice but to fine, rather than charge with a crime, the Orthodox priest who desecrated the Jewish menorah on December 13 (reftel). However, based on a previously unco [...]	2010-01-15 13:10:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR KDEM MD
10HANOI1	Violent Demolition of Crucifix Overshadows Progress on [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-12 10:08:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
10HANOI7	Vietnam Religious Freedom Update - The Case Against CPC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam's poor handling of the situations at the Plum Village Community at the Bat Nha Pagoda and the Dong Chiem Catholic parish last week "” particularly the excessive use of violence "” is troublesome and indicative of a larger GVN crackdown on human rights in the run-up to the J [...]	2010-01-20 09:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF HURI PREL VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY38	CHRISTIANS HOLD WIDESPREAD CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: Christians in HCMC, Hanoi and other locations held several large-scale Christmas celebrations with record- breaking turnout and without incident. In HCMC, Protestant house churches staged their largest Christmas gatherings to date -- two separate events involving 40,000 and 12,000 [...]	2010-01-29 09:42:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY50	FOUR CG TOUR OF THE DELTA HIGHLIGHTS ECONOMIC GROWTH AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A joint trip undertaken by the Consuls General of Australia, India, Kuwait and the USA to the Mekong Delta provinces of Can Tho, Hau Giang and An Giang provided a host of opportunities to share experiences, gain insights from colleagues, forge new connections and reinforce key sh [...]	2010-02-12 06:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KTIP KIRF PREL PGOV SOCI VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY53	CHURCH LEADERS SHARE SOUTHERN VIEW ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WITH [...] (C) Summary: During DAS Marciel's meetings with Cardinal Pham Minh Man and Pastor Le Quoc Huy of the Grace Baptist Church on February 7 and 8, respectively, both religious leaders affirmed Vietnam has made significant progress on ensuring the majority of Vietnam's Christians can practice their [...]	2010-02-12 10:31:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY56	THE HOA HAO TODAY [...] (SBU) Summary: The religious freedom situation facing the more than one million mainstream Hoa Hao continues to improve since GVN recognition in 1999, as evidenced by the open religious gathering in An Giang province attended by 50,000-70,000 followers in January. The vast majority of Hoa Hao [...]	2010-02-24 10:27:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL VM
10KABUL361	AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON MINISTER OF HAJI AND [...] (C) Summary: In the Ambassador's January 26 meeting with the new Afghan Minister of Haji and Islamic Affairs (MHIA),Dr. Mohammad Yousef Niazi, they discussed ways the Ministry could promote respect for fundamental human rights, peace, justice, and national unity through Afghanistan's netwo [...]	2010-01-30 12:09:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF EAIR AP
10KINSHASA76	GRAND IMAM VOICES SUPPORT FOR U.S. VALUES AND SAYS CONGOLESE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) national Islamic organization will focus specifically on promoting the positive and peaceful attributes of Islam, and will not veer into political issues, according to the country's leading Muslim leader, Grand Imam Abdala Mangala Luaba. [...]	2010-01-22 14:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPAO PHUM SOCI KIRF KISL CG
10LAHORE25	ACCUSATIONS OF TORTURE IN DEATH OF ADOLESCENT MAID IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The death of 12-year old girl, allegedly at the hands of her employers, offers a glimpse into the world of child labor in Pakistan. Shazia Masih, who died on January 22, worked for seven months as a servant in the home of a Lahore attorney. The attorney, his wife, son, and sis [...]	2010-02-13 06:26:00	Consulate Lahore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF KWMN PK
10MILAN16	INTERIOR MINISTER MARONI'S PLANS FOR INTEGRATION [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, a member of the Northern League (LN) party, recently announced a new draft law that would offer immigrants a residence permit, known as a "permesso di soggiorno," in return for a promise to integrate into Italian society. The Maroni plan--which [...]	2010-02-10 09:01:00	Consulate Milan	CONFIDENTIAL	IT KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM PINR SMIG
10MOSCOW334	GOR GREETS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM DIRECTOR BLOOMFIELD [...] (C) Summary: During a visit to Moscow from January 29 - February 4, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Director Sarah Bloomfield received an enthusiastic response from GOR officials, who noted that the GOR and the USHMM have shared interests in expanding World War II and Holocaust education [...]	2010-02-16 12:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI KNAR KIRF RS
10PARIS58	EMBASSY PARIS - MINORITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: In keeping with France's unique history and circumstances, Embassy Paris has created a Minority Engagement Strategy that encompasses, among other groups, the French Muslim population and responds to the goals outlined in reftel A. Our aim is to engage the French population at a [...]	2010-01-19 09:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KIRF KISL FR
10PARIS93	FRANCE MOVES TOWARD BAN ON BURQAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The parliamentary commission investigating the wearing of the burqa in France recommended banning Muslim women from "concealing their faces" in public facilities on January 26, in the release of their much-anticipated report. Calling for a partial ban on burqas, the commission c [...]	2010-01-28 19:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KIRF FR
10PRISTINA73	KOSOVO: SERBIAN ORTHODOX BISHOP ARTEMIJE'S FINANCES MAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Serbian Orthodox Church committee sent by the Synod to audit the financial accounts of Bishop Artemije Radosavljevic's diocese has uncovered evidence of financial irregularities and fraud. Bishop Artemije's assistant and adviser, Hieromonk Simeon Vilovski has reportedly fled [...]	2010-02-10 16:28:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SR KV
10SHANGHAI17	SHANGHAI AUTHORIZES EXPAT MORMONS TO HOLD WEEKLY RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary: The Shanghai Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB) has given expatriate members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) official permission to meet in Shanghai. Local observers point to the new decision to allow "temporary meeting places" for expatriate wo [...]	2010-01-20 08:39:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH KIRF PGOV PHUM PINS
10SHANGHAI33	SHANGHAI JEWISH COMMUNITY SEES EXPO AS A WAY TO EXPAND [...] (SBU) Summary: Shanghai's Jewish community has seen slow-but-observable progress toward greater acceptance by local government authorities over the last decade. The community now seeks to take advantage of the six-month-long Shanghai World Expo to push the door open another few inches. End Sum [...]	2010-01-29 06:54:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CH IS KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL
10STATE4749	THANK YOU FOR VOTES ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (U) This is an action message for action addressees. See para 5. 2. (U) Summary: Efforts to reach out to host countries, at all levels, paid off on December 18, 2009 as the votes in favor of the Defamation of Religions resolution at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) declined by six votes ( [...]	2010-01-16 01:53:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNGA OPDC KIRF KISL
10STATE8470	OSCE: STATEMENT ON THE SIXTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF [...] Post is authorized to present the following statement at the January 28 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Mister Chairman. Sixty-five years ago yesterday Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. Over the following few months America and our al [...]	2010-01-27 21:34:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PREL PGOV KIRF
10STATE8668	(C) CHINA: RELATIONS WITH THE VATICAN [...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATE REFTELS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON THE COMPLEXITIES OF BEIJING'S RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS, AS WELL AS CHINESE SOCIETY'S EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP WITH RELIGION. REFTELS PROVIDE GROUND TRUTH ON THE STATUS OF CHINA'S RELIGIOUS PRACTITIO [...]	2010-01-28 14:18:00	Secretary of State	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL CH VT
10STATE9311	(C) CHINA'S RELATIONS WITH THE VATICAN [...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATE REFTELS FOR PROVIDING INSIGHT INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHINA AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. IN PARTICULAR, REF B SUGGESTS THAT BEIJING'S WILLINGNESS TO PERMIT CARITAS' CHARITY WORK, EVEN WHEN ENGAGING WITH THE UNDERGROUND CHURCH, IS A SIGN OF CHI [...]	2010-01-29 15:16:00	Secretary of State	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL CH VT
10TASHKENT49	Bible Society of Uzbekistan faces Uncertain Future [...] (C) Summary: Sergei Mitin, Chairperson of the Bible Society of Uzbekistan, spoke to poloff on January 22 to discuss continued problems with fulfilling its mission in Uzbekistan. Although Mitin is not yet ready to throw in the towel, he and others in the World Congress of United Bible Soc [...]	2010-01-29 09:45:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KIRF UZ
10TBILISI196	GEORGIA: CHALLENGES FACING ETHNIC ARMENIANS [...] (C) SUMMARY. New and expanding economic opportunities should serve to lessen the isolation of many of the 250,000 ethnic Armenians resident in Georgia, enabling them to branch out of their traditional region of Samtskhe-Javakheti and allowing younger ethnic Armenians to pursue their goals of h [...]	2010-02-16 07:27:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM AM GG
10VATICAN11	VATICAN ON HAITI: CHURCH LOSSES AND RESPONSES [...] (S) Summary: While devastating, the Church suffered fewer losses in the Haiti earthquake than initially reported in the media. The death of the Archbishop and many seminarians were especially painful but the Vatican is already reviewing how to regroup: Bishop Pierre Dumas, President of Carit [...]	2010-01-20 16:44:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	EAID PREL SOCI PHUM KIRF VT HA
10VATICAN12	(C) VATICAN ON HONDURAS: MICHELETTI SHOULD RESIGN. [...] (C) The Vatican's Secretariat of State point person for Central America, Monsignor Francisco Frojan, confirmed to polchief on January 19 that the Vatican supports the implementation of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord, including the formation of a unity government and the establishment of a trut [...]	2010-01-20 16:52:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF HO VT
10VATICAN14	VATICAN OFFICIAL ON CUBA RELATIONS WITH EU AND U.S. [...] (C) The Vatican's point person on Cuba, Monsignor Accattino, supports EU dialogue with Cuba and said the U.S. should refrain from unilateral actions against Cuba that play into the hands of the Castros - or Hugo Chavez. This is particularly true, he said, of decisions like identifying Cubans as nat [...]	2010-01-21 16:21:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF CU VT
10VATICAN15	CARDINAL SAYS SAUDI ARABIA SHOULD PERMIT CHURCHES, DECRIES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Vatican's interfaith Czar, Cardinal Jean Louis Tauran, renewed his call for all societies to recognize freedom of religion in a recent press interview. Tauran also asked for concrete measures that move interfaith relations from mere tolerance to harmonious coexistence of p [...]	2010-01-22 14:34:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KIRF PGOV PHUM PREF SA IS TU VT
10VATICAN18	VATICAN OFFICIAL ON IRAQ AND PLANNED MEETING OF MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary: The Vatican's Secretariat of State point person for the Middle East, Monsignor Alberto Ortega, said the bishops of Iraq had urged the Vatican to convene a special Middle East "synod" (meeting of bishops) this Fall. Although violence is down, the Vatican is concerned about the fut [...]	2010-02-02 16:46:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KIRF IZ VT
10VATICAN26	(C) IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO THE HOLY SEE CRITICAL OF USG IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Ambassador to the Holy See, Albert Yelda, told the Ambassador in a recent meeting that he supports the exclusion of former Baathists candidates from the March 2010 parliamentary elections in Iraq (ref. A). Yelda said USG efforts to include former Baathists are an inter [...]	2010-02-12 14:50:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF KIRF IZ VT
10VATICAN31	VATICAN-AFFILIATED CONFERENCE REVIEWS CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM [...] (SBU) Summary: Political, academic and religious leaders from the Middle East presented their views on Christian-Muslim coexistence in the region at a conference organized by the Vatican-affiliated Community of Sant'Egidio on February 22 in Rome. The conference addressed, among other topics, [...]	2010-02-26 15:24:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL KIRF IZ IS VT
10VATICAN32	POPE APPEALS TO IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT CHRISTIANS [...] (U) In a letter made public on February 25 in the semi-official Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI asked Iraqi PM al-Maliki to do "everything possible" to increase security around Christian places of worship during the Eastern-rite Christian Christmas season. The original [...]	2010-02-26 15:39:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL KIRF IZ VT
10VATICAN33	SEX ABUSE SCANDAL STRAINS IRISH-VATICAN RELATIONS, SHAKES UP [...] (C) Summary: The November 2009 report of cover-up by local bishops of revelations of physical and sexual abuse of children by Irish clergy appalled Catholics and others worldwide. Vatican and Irish officials' first concern was for the victims, but that reality was sometimes obscured in the events t [...]	2010-02-26 16:32:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	PREL PHUM SOCI KIRF VT EI
10VIENNA151	AUSTRIA: RECORD DECLINE IN CATHOLIC CHURCH MEMBERSHIP IN [...] Summary: A record number of Austrian Catholics chose to leave the Church formally in 2009, cancelling their annual contributions. The departures are widely attributed to a number of controversies that wracked the Church during the year, especially the abortive Vatican appointment of an ultraco [...]	2010-02-09 09:55:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KIRF VN AU
10YEREVAN102	ARMENIAN CATHOLICOS OPEN TO DIALOGUE ON CHURCHES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Catholicos Karekin II, the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC),told the Ambassador that the AAC is willing to participate in a joint commission with the Georgian Orthodox Church and others to discuss the historical ownership of a number of disputed churches in Georgia, as [...]	2010-02-26 13:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KIRF SCUL GG AM
10YEREVAN103	GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA GIVES HIS VIEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Georgian Ambassador to Armenia believes the Government of Armenia (GOAM) is ratcheting up demands on the Government of Georgia (GOG) on the issues of border demarcation and the disputed churches to take advantage of Georgia's perceived weakness and delicate psychological st [...]	2010-02-26 13:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PBTS KIRF SOCI GG AM

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