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Christians Threatened in Turkmenistan
International Christian Concern ^ | 01/31/2005 | Forum 18

Posted on 02/05/2005 12:11:35 AM PST by underlying

Protestants in north-eastern Turkmenistan have been threatened for holding services and preaching Christianity, Forum 18 News Service has learned.  "The head of the village administration, the police, the National Security Ministry (NSM) secret police and Muslim clergy in the person of the mullah started to put pressure on them," local believers who wished not to be named told Forum 18. As well as threatening to deport the Protestants from their village if they continue to hold services, local officials threatened to cut off gas and electricity supplies to the family home and withhold pensions, a serious threat in impoverished Turkmenistan.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christians; islam; muslims; protestants

1 posted on 02/05/2005 12:11:35 AM PST by underlying
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To: underlying

Ah,the religion of peace raises its ugly head. Time to snip off its head before it infects the whole world.


2 posted on 02/05/2005 12:29:34 AM PST by taxesareforever
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To: Shermy

Turkmanbashi ping


3 posted on 02/05/2005 1:09:14 AM PST by gubamyster
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muslims and nonmuslims
4 posted on 03/04/2005 5:12:32 PM PST by underlying
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