{"id":5150,"date":"2014-11-05T10:58:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:58:46","slug":"uzbekistan-christian-home-raided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5150","title":{"rendered":"UZBEKISTAN: Christian Home Raided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\">Worthy Christian News<\/a>, October 15, 2014<\/p>\n<p>A Christian in Uzbekistan has been fined and threatened with further punishment after religious literature was seized from his home during a raid by Uzbek police in August, according to Barnabas Aid.<\/p>\n<p>Artur Alpayev was fined 50 times Uzbekistan\u2019s minimum monthly wage for storing religious literature at his home in Navoi. During sentencing, Judge Oltinbek Mansurov said, \u201cWe will continue fining you unless you stop storing religious literature in your home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge said that the literature should have been stored in a building belonging to a registered religious organization, but Alpayev is a member of a Christian denomination that refuses on principle to seek state registration.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\/18021-uzbek-police-raid-christians-homes\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\/18021-uzbek-police-raid-christians-homes\">Read full story<\/a>. For regular news and analysis of religious liberty issues in Central Asia, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forum18.org\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.forum18.org\/\">Forum18 News Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Worthy Christian News, October 15, 2014 A Christian in Uzbekistan has been fined and threatened with further punishment after religious literature was seized from his home during a raid by Uzbek police in August, according to Barnabas Aid. Artur Alpayev was fined 50 times Uzbekistan\u2019s minimum monthly wage for storing religious literature at his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UZBEKISTAN: Christian Home Raided<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150","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=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5151,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions\/5151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}