{"id":4930,"date":"2024-03-21T07:07:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T07:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/repressive-new-religion-laws-considered\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T07:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T07:07:03","slug":"repressive-new-religion-laws-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/repressive-new-religion-laws-considered\/","title":{"rendered":"Repressive New Religion Laws Considered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Commission of Religious Affairs (SCRA) in Kyrgyzstan has proposed new religion laws. The laws currently in effect in this Central Asian country already require registration of churches and limit how churches can form, but the proposed laws are even more stringent. The laws require registration and regular re-registration as well as intrusive reporting procedures. They also set the minimum size for an organization restrictively high and require &ldquo;founding members&rdquo; to provide signatures and identifying information, opening individual Christians up to surveillance and harassment. The laws allow the SCRA to submit a church&rsquo;s beliefs to &ldquo;expert analysis&rdquo; and require SCRA permission for any religious education or offsite activities. Even names, logos and symbols of organizations would require SCRA authorization. Penalties for violations are expected to be harsher than before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/kyrgyzstan\/\">Click here<\/a> to find out about Christian persecution in Kyrgyzstan and learn how to pray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icommittopray.com\/request\/2642\/christians-in-krygyzstan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post a prayer for Christians in Krygyzstan on iCommitToPray.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Commission of Religious Affairs (SCRA) in Kyrgyzstan has proposed new religion laws. The laws currently in effect in this Central Asian country already require registration of churches and limit how churches can form, but the proposed laws are even more stringent. The laws require registration and regular re-registration as well as intrusive reporting procedures. They also set the minimum size for an organization restrictively high and require &#8220;founding members&#8221; to provide signatures and identifying information, opening individual Christians up to surveillance and harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-commit-to-pray","tag-kyrgyzstan","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Repressive New Religion Laws Considered - Stories<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/repressive-new-religion-laws-considered\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Repressive New Religion Laws Considered - Stories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The State Commission of Religious Affairs (SCRA) in Kyrgyzstan has proposed new religion laws. 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