Zack on May 26th, 2009

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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Zack on April 28th, 2009

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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Zack on April 1st, 2009

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 [...]

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Zack on March 18th, 2009

Need something to focus your prayer life?
Here’s one: Seven Christians detained based on suspicion of being Christian…

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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 believe?
After years, [...]

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