(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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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 [...]
Need something to focus your prayer life? Here’s one: Seven Christians detained based on suspicion of being Christian…
For many of us, if someone came up, put a gun to our head, and told us to renounce what we believe in or die, the answer would be simple. It’s easy to believe that we would die for our beliefs. But what if someone subtly, persistently made your life miserable because of what you [...]
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A Protestant from north-west Uzbekistan, Jandos Kuandikov, was arrested on 14 June and is still in detention before facing criminal trial on terrorism charges, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Uzbek police have also recently falsely accused a Protestant refugee in Kazakhstan of terrorism charges. Amongst other recent violations of freedom of thought, conscience and [...]
I have my default webpage on my personal computer set to “Voice of the Martyrs“. I do this for two reasons: 1 – I need to see this page on a regular basis 2 – I probably wouldn’t navigate there very much if it didn’t come up every time I open my web browser. Why [...]
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Google pointed me here this morning. Here’s an excerpt: Human rights group Forum 18 said Pastor Nikolai Zulfikarov has been sentenced to two years “correctional labor” in Uzbekistan for “teaching religious doctrines without special religious education and without permission from a central organ of administration of a religious organization, as well as teaching religion privately”. [...]
