(Forum 18) – The New Generation Pentecostal church in Kazakhstan ‘s commercial capital Almaty cancelled a conference due to have begun on 12 June after the church’s Latvian-based chief pastor was denied a Kazakh visa. The Kazakh consulate in Latvia told Pastor Aleksei Ledyayev, who was born in Kazakhstan , that a visit to his homeland was “not desirable” but refused to give a reason. “We’re asking the authorities for an explanation – and we’ll lodge a fresh application for Pastor Aleksei to get a visa,” Viktor Ovsyannikov, pastor of the Almaty church, told Forum 18 News Service. Ledyayev was blacklisted by Russia in 2002 and is also barred from Belarus . Others barred from Russia on religious grounds remain barred in Kazakhstan , though Lutheran bishop Siegfried Springer, deported from Russia in April, told Forum 18 he has received a visa for Kazakhstan .
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