Source: Back to Jerusalem, August 2, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turkmenistan, a former Soviet state, is showing signs it\u2019s ready for tourism, which is a positive sign for missionaries who have been praying for the country to open up for decades. Not many people know much about Turkmenistan, but that is because it is about as inaccessible as North Korea, Yemen, or Eritrea, but the country surprisingly began to open up their visa process to tourists in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turkmenistan has been a somewhat impenetrable Muslim nation, completely cut off from the rest of the world. According to the Joshua Project, of Turkmenistan\u2019s 49 people groups, 16 are completely unreached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interested in Central Asia? The Ferghana Valley is open for visitors<\/a> (BBC). For more suggestions, read The 25 Best Places to Travel in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also praise God for those able and willing to stay in places don\u2019t make that kind of list. Read about a long-term Irish missionary among nine people kidnapped from a Haitian orphanage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Back to Jerusalem, August 2, 2025 Turkmenistan, a former Soviet state, is showing signs it\u2019s ready for tourism, which is a positive sign for missionaries who have been praying for the country to open up for decades. Not many people know much about Turkmenistan, but that is because it is about as inaccessible as … Continue reading Turkmenistan: New Visas for Visitors<\/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-14060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060","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=14060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14069,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060\/revisions\/14069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}