If you read this blog much, you know that I spent most of a year in Uzbekistan, and that the situation there is not a good one. Islam Karimov is a murderous thug who rules through fear and intimidation, and millions of people suffer every day because of him. Christians are routinely arrested and harassed, and [...]
Continue reading about What WikiLeaks Reveals About Uzbekistan
(Those reading from email or an rss feed will need to click through to see the 2-minute video above) This is very personal to me. There are somewhere around 30,000 believers in Uzbekistan, which is roughly 0.001% of the population. I know a handful of them personally. They have been arrested, interrogated, spied on, sabotaged, and end [...]
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Three weeks ago, Osh, Kyrgyzstan was a very large city with a very large population of Uzbeks, a people group very dear to my heart. Today, a significant portion of the city lies in ruins. Hundreds are dead, and tens of thousands have fled the city. Many Uzbeks have gone back to Uzbekistan, where it [...]
Continue reading about Please, please, please pray for Osh, Kyrgyzstan
Please, please, please pray for Uzbekistan! The article I just stumbled over begins: WHEN her baby died soon after delivery, Gulbahor Zavidova, 28, a poor farmer’s wife, longed to be pregnant again. After months of trying she and her husband visited a doctor who told her she could never have another child because she had [...]
Continue reading about Another Devestating Story From Uzbekistan
The lead pastor at our church released a new book this week! Pastor J.D. lived for a couple of years in a Muslim country in the pacific rim of Asia, and also got his PHD in Islamic studies. “Breaking The Islamic Code” is his attempt at helping us ‘westernized Americans’ better understand Islam, Muslims, and [...]
You may have never noticed it before, but on the right sidebar of this blog, there’s an “Un-reached People Group Of The Day” banner…
I’ve posted in the past about how messed up the human rights situation is in Uzbekistan. Small children are forced to pick cotton instead of go to school for weeks at a time during the fall. The cotton is grown in fields that the government essentially seizes, and then the cotton is sold for the [...]
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