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Uzbekistan charges Baptist camp with crimes
The Baptist Standard ^ | July 29, 2009 | Bob Allen

Posted on 08/02/2009 10:12:50 AM PDT by wmfights

TASHKENT CITY, Uzbekistan (ABP) -- Authorities in Uzbekistan cracked down on Baptists after a government-sponsored news agency ran articles alleging illegal religious activity at a summer camp for children.

Forum 18, a Norway-based news service that monitors alleged violations of religious freedom, reported July 28 that Pavel Peichev, head of the Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists of Middle Asia, faces criminal charges of unlawfully teaching children religion and misusing resort facilities.

Local Baptists fear huge fines, confiscation of the property, imprisonment or some combination of penalties if Peichev is convicted

(Excerpt) Read more at baptiststandard.com ...


TOPICS: Evangelical Christian; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: antichristian; baptists; christianpersecution; christians; religiousfreedom; summercamp; tashkent; uzbekistan

1 posted on 08/02/2009 10:12:50 AM PDT by wmfights
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To: wmfights
More details at the link.
2 posted on 08/02/2009 10:14:50 AM PDT by wmfights (If you want change support SenateConservatives.com)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus; John Leland 1789

It struck me you might find this interesting. The discrimination of the state has taken a less violent approach in this part of the world, but it exists.


3 posted on 08/02/2009 10:50:10 AM PDT by wmfights (If you want change support SenateConservatives.com)
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To: All
SNIPPET from the link in post no. 1:

"Pitirimov says the Camp4Joy is legal because the Baptist union is a legally registered religious organization. Baptists have been holding the camp in the mountain district about an hour-and-a-half's drive from Uzebekistan's capital city of Tashkent for several years."

4 posted on 08/30/2009 11:47:56 PM PDT by Cindy
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