Current Ministry Project
VOMC has come alongside project partners to offer English-language training camps as opportunities for evangelism and outreach among youth and young adults. Camp participants not only receive greatly needed encouragement through the helpful practical curriculum that’s presented by caring team leaders, but they are also invited to embrace the “Good News” of the Gospel.
Project Fund: Equipping the Saints
Country Information
Population
8,990,874 (July 2021 est.)
Ethnicity (%)
Tajik (84.4), Uzbek (11.9), Other (3.7)
Religion (%)
Muslim (98), Other (2)
Leader
President Emomali Rahmon (1994)
Government type
Presidential republic
Legal system
Civil law system
Source: CIA World Factbook
Pray for Tajikistan
Pray God will provide for the physical needs of the people of Tajikistan.
Pray freedom of religion will be respected by the government.
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Tajikistan News
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No New Churches Allowed
Pray that Tajikistan’s youth will be allowed to participate in Christian summer camp programs.
Photo: VOMC Ministry PartnerIn late May, Protestant church leaders in Tajikistan were summoned to a meeting with Sulaymon Davlatzoda, the chair of the State Committee for Religious Affairs and Regulation
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Fines for Bible Translation
Over the past six months, the leaders of four different churches in Tajikistan have received huge fines because they were part of a plan to create a new Tajik translation of the Bible. According to some Tajik Christians, the current translations available in their language use archaic words and some
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Pastor Released Early
Pastor Bakhrom Kholmatov and
his wife (undated image).
Photo: World Watch MonitorIn April 2017, Pastor Bakhrom Kholmatov was arrested and charged with "singing extremist songs in church and so inciting religious hatred." In July of that year, he had been sentenced to three years in prison (read mo
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Clampdown on Christianity
Pastor Batyr
Photo: Release InternationalThroughout Central Asia, Christians are facing worship bans, arrest and torture as Islamic nationalism gains ground. In late August, we reported on a group arrested in Tajikistan for distributing Christian literature (read the report). Similar incidents ar
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