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“Religious communities in Kyrgyzstan are encountering bans and great difficulties in inviting foreign religious workers to work with them,” Forum 18 News Service reports.
By Mushfig Bayram
12/21/2011 Kyrgyzstan (Forum 18 News Service) – Religious communities in Kyrgyzstan are encountering bans and great difficulties in inviting foreign religious workers to work with them, Forum 18 News Service has found. Many but not all of the problems relate to the harsh 2009 Religion Law being used against communities with foreign contacts. There are moves to strengthen the Law’s censorship provisions, but two Jehovah’s Witnesses imprisoned in 2011 on seven-year prison terms have now been released. Following an application for a foreign religious worker to be re-registered, Ahmadi Muslims were themselves denied re-registration by the State Commission for Religious Affairs (SCRA). The NSS secret police had told the SCRA that Ahmadi Muslims are a “dangerous movement and against traditional Islam”. SCRA Head Ormon Sharshenov, asked by Forum 18 how the SCRA concluded that Ahmadi Muslims are dangerous, replied: “I received it from heaven”. Ahmadi Muslims told Forum 18 that since July they had stopped meeting for worship in the hope that they will receive state permission to exercise their right to freedom of religion or belief. The Grace Presbyterian Church is also facing an SCRA threat to its legal existence. All unregistered religious activity is banned, against international human rights standards.
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