{"id":1299,"date":"2011-02-18T10:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T10:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2011-02-18T10:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T10:53:52","slug":"russias-national-islamic-television-station-starts-test-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/02\/18\/1299\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s National Islamic Television Station Starts Test Broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"russia-national-islamic\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/russia-national-islamic.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"185\" \/>Russia&#8217;s first Muslim TV channel started its test run broadcastings on Sunday in a move earlier endorsed by President Dmitry Medvedev, who pointed to the necessity of creating such a channel in Russia as soon as possible.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aim is to make Islam more familiar and better understood among the Russian population, a mission that should be specifically fulfilled by Islam experts, Medvedev explained.<br \/>The full launch of Russia&#8217;s first Muslim television channel will take place in April, offering &#8220;spiritual and moral education,&#8221; said a spokeswoman for the council of Islamic leaders, Gulnur Gaziyeva.<br \/>The channel will &#8220;have a civilising aim and will contribute first of all to spiritual and moral education,&#8221; Gaziyeva said.<br \/>The council, which represents Islam at an official level in Russia, is hiring presenters and deciding on content for the channel, some of which will be secular.<br \/>Russia already has several Russian Orthodox channels, including Spas, or Saved, which was created in 2005 to &#8220;reinforce spiritual values&#8221; and broadcasts via satellite to Russia and former Soviet countries, according to its website.<br \/>President Dmitry Medvedev last week at a meeting with Russian Orthodox leaders stressed the need for dialogue between faiths to prevent the growth of nationalism and inter-ethnic conflicts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: IslamToday<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s first Muslim TV channel started its test run broadcastings on Sunday in a move earlier endorsed by President Dmitry Medvedev, who pointed to the necessity of creating such a channel in Russia as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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