{"id":527,"date":"2012-02-09T03:53:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T09:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/?p=527"},"modified":"2012-02-08T22:55:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T04:55:01","slug":"5-minute-challenge-uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/5-minute-challenge-uzbekistan\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Minute Challenge &#8211; Uzbekistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The strict monitoring of all Christian activities has intensified, even in the Orthodox Church. Outreach, training and youth activities are forbidden in unregistered churches \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and in the last ten years only one new church was granted registration. Private Bible study meetings are always in danger of being closed down. Churches are raided and literature and other materials confiscated. Printing or importing Christian literature is prohibited. Christians are fined or given short-term prison sentences. When brought to court, fair treatment is not ensured.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Two days ago the police raided our house,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lazar said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They took away all the Bibles and Christian books that we had in the house.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0He is a Church leader in Uzbekistan, a country which does not often get mentioned in the news, but is known by Open Doors for the persecution of Christians. The roots of Communism have not seemed to wither yet. Uzbek Christians strive to live with faith in God&#8217;s promises, despite the fear of surveillance, intimidation and imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map_Uzbekistan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"528\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/5-minute-challenge-uzbekistan\/map_uzbekistan\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map_Uzbekistan.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"307,164\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"map_Uzbekistan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map_Uzbekistan-300x160.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map_Uzbekistan.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-528\" title=\"map_Uzbekistan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map_Uzbekistan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map_Uzbekistan.jpg 307w, http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/map_Uzbekistan-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For pastors trying to lead their churches with limited resources<\/li>\n<li>For courage for Muslim-background believers who experience great pressure from family and society<\/li>\n<li>A 27-year-old convert from Islam is currently serving 10 years in prison on false charges. Pray for his release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uzbek Christians strive to live with faith in God&#8217;s promises, despite the fear of surveillance, intimidation and imprisonment. Private Bible study meetings are always in danger of being closed down. Churches are raided and literature and other materials confiscated. Printing or importing Christian literature is prohibited. Christians are fined or given short-term prison sentences. When brought to court, fair treatment is not ensured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-minutes","tag-ttw2015","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/WWL2012.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xumr-8v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}