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For more information on the opposition facing Christians in Tajikistan, click here.
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For more information on the opposition facing Christians in Tajikistan, click here.
VOMC has come alongside project partners to offer an English camp as an opportunity for evangelism and outreach among youth and young adults. Camp participants are invited to embrace the Good News of the Gospel through the platform of the English Camps.
Project Fund: Equipping the Saints
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 God will provide for the physical needs of the people of Tajikistan.
Pray freedom of religion will be respected by the government.
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
...In 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
...Throughout 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
...Ten Christians were arrested by security police in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan on August 7th. The group was distributing Christian literature in Russian, Tajik and various local languages when they were detained. According to a ministry partner of Release Intern
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