Russia: Muslim Clerics Spark Controversy By Banning Interfaith Marriages

(RFE/RL) -- A group of Russian Muslim scholars have ordered a ban on believers marrying non-Muslims, a ruling that sparked dissent within the country's national Islamic council and raised eyebrows nationwide.

The Councils of Clerics of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims *issued its fatwa*, or ruling, in July, banning...