Practically Speaking

Please note that the East-West Church and Ministry Report has a new area code (630) for telephone and fax and a new e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Law and Liberty Trust (LLT), which monitors religious liberty issues in the former Soviet Union, has a new address and e-mail: LLT, 333 Maple Ave. East, Suite 1085, Vienna, VA 22180; tel: 703-256-2000; fax: 703-319-3625; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. In March 1996, LLT announced a merger with Christian Renewal Effort for Emerging Democracies (CREED), a religious rights advocacy group founded in 1980 by Dr. Ernest Gordon, former chaplain of Princeton University. Contact LLT for Dr. Gordon's autobiography, Miracle on the River Kwai, a spiritual pilgrimage to faith through suffering, now available in Russian. Also, Law and Liberty Trust President Lauren Homer has recently launched a newsletter, Liberty News.

Slovakia Country Report (1996) by John Casson and Juraj Kusnierik includes a brief but helpful overview of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxy. In addition to descriptions and full contact information, the study provides the following church statistics:

Church	Number of Believers	Percentage of Total Population
Roman Catholic	3,187,383	60.40
Lutheran	326,397	6.20
Eastern-Rite Catholic	178,733	3.40
Reformed	82,545	1.60
Orthodox	34,376	.60
Methodist	4,359	.08
Baptist	2,465	.05
Free Evangelical	1,861	.04
Apostolic	1,116	.02

The Report is available for $10 plus $5 shipping and handling from:

Ethics Development Initiative
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Stredo-Europska Nadacia (SEN)
Liptovska 10
82109 Bratislava
Slovakia
tel: 42-7-521-6293
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Central European Mission Fellowship
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LaHabra, CA 90632
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Practically Speaking, East-West Church & Ministry Report, 4 (Summer 1996), 13.

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