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 is much [...]
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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 been sterilised.
The [...]
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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 the [...]
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 government’s profit [...]
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This won’t make your 5:00 news, but it’s way more important than the latest defector from the Republican party…
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Just came across this article saying that one of the very last moves of the Bush administration was to designate Uzbekistan as one of the top 8 religious rights violators in the world.
It makes me sad that the Obama administration will probably completely ignore this because they ‘need’ to build an air force base there.
Here’s [...]
I just came across yet another article about child labor in Uzbekistan*.
Here’s how it starts:
Despite signing two international treaties and adopting domestic legislation prohibiting the use of child labor, Uzbekistan continued to rely on a “state-orchestrated mass mobilization of children to bring in the 2008 cotton harvest,” a new report has found.
By the end of [...]
Most of my friends know that I spent a year in Uzbekistan, and that I would give a lot to go back.
I posted a bazillion pics from my trip when I first came home, but the server I used for those has become bogged down with spam, and most of the folks who read this [...]
Here’s a story about some journalists who were arrested just for writing negative things about their government. What do you think would happen if all the Bush haters suddenly disappeared?
Hmmmm… Interesting thought…
While I’m on the topic — while I have some strong political beliefs, I generally steer clear of waving them around too much. But [...]
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