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: 75050.3251@CompuServe.COM. 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 |
| Ethics Development Initiative
53 Romney St. London SWIP 3RF United Kingdom tel: 44-1455-617074 fax: 44-1455-250534 e-mail: 100276.317@compuserve.com |
Stredo-Europska Nadacia (SEN)
Liptovska 10 82109 Bratislava Slovakia tel: 42-7-521-6293 fax: 42-7-521-6288 e-mail: 100015.2663@compuserve.com |
Central European Mission Fellowship
add: Box 2191 LaHabra, CA 90632 tel: 1310-697-7413 fax: 1310-691-3468 e-mail: 100276.317@compuserve.com or 74553.546@compuserve.com |
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