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No Mercy for Grace Churches

Central Asian republic increasingly views evangelicals as traitors.

Susan Wunderink | posted 10/17/2007 02:32PM

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For more background, see the BBC's country profile and Forum 18's religious freedom survey.

Wikipedia has an extensive and accurate page on ethnic Koreans—like Igor Kim— in Kazakhstan.

Our previous articles on Central Asia include:

Bizzare-istan | Death of self-styled autocrat gives hope to isolated Christians. (March 23, 2007)

Equal-Opportunity Offender | Uzbek government crackdown on Muslims worries evangelicals. (January 18, 2007)

Uncertain Future | July 10 election could determine the church's status in this Muslim nation. (DATE)

Turkmenistan Tightens Religion Law | Violators of new law to be punished by fines or corrective labor. (Jan. 28, 2004)

Uzbekistan: Catch-240 | "Repressive regime requires Christians to register, but won't process their applications" (January 1, 2003)

Catch-240 | Uzbekistan's repressive regime requires Christians to register, but won't process their applications. (Dec. 31, 2002)

Crushed by a Soviet Relic | What you can do to help persecuted Christians in Turkmenistan. (Aug. 23, 2002)

Christians Fear Decade of Freedom Is Over | Central Asian countries experienced freedom, growth, repression, and now uncertainty. (Feb. 22, 2002)

Turkmen Authorities Seal Country's Last Open Baptist Church | Turkmenistan's secret police continue to raid and harass Christians in Ashgabad. (Feb. 26, 2001)

Kazakhstan: Central Asia's Great Awakening | A decade-old ethnic church blooms despite government suspicion. (July 14, 2000)

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Jeri Cadwallader

Posted: October 28, 2007 5:36 AM


Thank you for these articles. I'm in a small town church and we rarely hear much of what is going on in the larger Christian world apart from our own denomination. I coordinate our prayer ministry, and can add these concerns.

RC	Posted: October 18, 2007 1:19 PM


Thanks for addressing issues such as these. Articles about the glitz and glamour of the American church are getting old. Keep the mission of God the main thing. Good article.

Brad Ryden

Posted: October 17, 2007 10:26 AM

This is one of the things you people do best. Being liberal as I am, I often disagree with some of the things you place out for reading. But news such as this is so important. It mobilizes God's children for prayer and if possible action. Keep doing this, the church needs to hear this, we as members of the body of Christ need to tell our government representatives about these things and some how we need to tell those of this persecuted body of believers that there are people who care.

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