Christians Under Attack

Television viewers in Uzbekistan looking for the familiar features of Father Christmas on their screens this year will be disappointed following an unofficial ban by the state broadcaster.

Uzbekistan continues punishing people exercising the right to freedom of religion or belief without state permission, Forum 18 News Service notes. In one incident, police and the NSS secret

(Worthy News)-- Authorities in eastern Uzbekistan have warned local churches not to allow youngsters and children to attend their worship services and not to carry out missionary activities or "proselytism", the word for evangelism, local Christians and activists said.

Police intimidation and a stern warning to a Baptist Church that gives money to children. A woman who gifts a bible to a friend fined more than 4 years' salary. 3 Islamic clerics who are studying in Arab countries “dismissed”.

Another young Christian girl savaged at the hands of the Religion of
Interfaith Dialogue™ in pious Pakistan:

Uzbekistan (MNN) ― The #10 country on Open Doors World Watch List is cracking down harder on Christians than ever before. The Uzbek government fears that Christians will cause social unrest.

Baptists are systematically persecuted, even when all they do is meet for prayer. Jehovah’s Witnesses fear their faith might be banned “like in Soviet times.”

UZBEKISTAN (ANS) -- A small Baptist congregation in Uzbekistan is under fire again from authorities.

Evangelicals’ relatives, neighbors swayed by ‘terrible lies and accusations.’

January 16 (Compass) – A “documentary” televised regionally in Uzbekistan last summer has left entire communities convinced that