Most of the people in Uzbekistan are Muslims. Kids in some parts of the country can get into trouble just for going to church!One Sunday, several police officers and a TV cameraman raided a church service in Uzbekistan. The cameraman filmed the entire service. After church, the police questioned the children. “How often do you go to church?” the police asked.
Later, the film aired on TV. The TV announcer said that the children were “deprived of a normal, happy childhood” because of their church activities.
About a month after the raid, policemen came to the children’s school. They took the children away from school to question them some more. The officers asked questions like, “What books do you read? What music do you listen to? What do your parents teach you?”
One girl was forced to write a “confession” against her parents. Back at school, a teacher warned the Christian children that they would go to prison if they kept going to church.
(Forum 18)
