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 [...]
Continue reading about Pray For Persecuted Christians In Uzbekistan
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 [...]
Continue reading about Uzbekistan forced to stop child labor (?)
This won’t make your 5:00 news, but it’s way more important than the latest defector from the Republican party…
Continue reading about More Human Rights Abuse in Uzbekistan
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 [...]
Continue reading about Uzbek officials refuse to allow Christians to bury family members
