Source: Forum18, July 12, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On June 25, the Legislative Chamber of the parliament adopted in the first reading a draft law to allegedly \u201cfurther strengthen the rights of children,\u201d according to the parliamentary website. The draft Law would ban and introduce punishments for parents or guardians who allow their children to receive \u201cillegal\u201d religious education before the age of 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The planned amendments to existing laws would impose fines of over a month\u2019s average wages or jail terms of up to 15 days on parents or guardians who allow or arrange \u201cillegal\u201d religious education for under-18-year-olds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Interior Ministry claims that the draft Law would prevent children from falling under the influence of terrorist groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story, which adds that many citizens are expressing strong opposition to the proposed law. In other news, Forum18 also reports that the courts have sentenced several women with large fines for allegedly sharing their beliefs with others without permission<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also Chinese Officials Propose Harsher Restrictions for Christians<\/a> (International Christian Concern).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Forum18, July 12, 2024 On June 25, the Legislative Chamber of the parliament adopted in the first reading a draft law to allegedly \u201cfurther strengthen the rights of children,\u201d according to the parliamentary website. The draft Law would ban and introduce punishments for parents or guardians who allow their children to receive \u201cillegal\u201d religious … Continue reading Uzbekistan: A Plan to Punish Parents Who Allow Religious Education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13105,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104\/revisions\/13105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}