ICC Note: Russia passed an anti-missionary amendment in 2016 to stop both foreign and domestic religious persons from spreading their beliefs. Anyone caught speaking, passing out...
ICC Note: Russian authorities are using administrative codes about missionary activities and land use policies to restrict freedom of religion. Two administrative codes prohibit...
ICC Note: An institute in Kazakhstan has requested selected Christian places of worship to provide the personal data of anyone under the age of 18 who attends worship. It is unclear why...
ICC Note: In Uzbekistan, religious minorities continue to face intense government harassment for their faith. Government officials are raiding churches, hindering Christians from...
ICC Note: A court in Kazakhstan fined Shymkent’s New Life Protestant Church and forced them to shut down for one month. The reason: only having three fire detectors in an old storage...
ICC Note: On March 13, a court in Kazakhstan found a Christian woman “not guilty” of illegal missionary activity. The lady had helped someone install a Bible app on a smartphone before...
ICC Note: From February 22-23, 2018, five Central Asian and European Union leaders met to discuss the most pressing issues surrounding Central Asia. One of the topics included religious...
ICC Note: Tajikistan has made it more difficult for religious minorities to practice their faith by implementing amendments to the already restrictive Religion Laws. Now religious...
ICC Note: On January 28, police raided Star in the East Pentecostal Church in Azerbaijan. Officials said the church goers “didn’t do anything wrong…they simply had no registration," but...
ICC Note: Despite a Muslim imam’s confession that he led a “mob” to block the burial of a Christian in a public cemetery, authorities refuse to punish the imam. Forum 18 reported that...
ICC Note: Forum 18 reports that Kazakhstan had a busy 2017 in terms of squashing religious freedom. The primarily Sunni Muslim country punished hundreds of religious minorities...
ICC Note: In March 2016, Turkmenistan passed a new law on Religious Organizations and Religious Freedom which required all religious entities to re-register with the government. Without...
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