Home News Room USCIRF In the News 7/29/2009: Uzbekistan charges Baptist camp with crimes - Associated Baptist Press
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By Bob Allen



http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4267&Itemid=53


Last year Camp4Joy had 538 campers. The camp lasts eight days and features rock-climbing, hiking and other recreation.

Uzbekistan's constitution provides for freedom of religion and for the principle of separation of church and state, but a religion law passed in 1998 restricts many rights only to registered religious groups and limits which groups may register.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom labels Uzbekistan a "Country of Particular Concern," ranking it as one of the world's worst violators of religious liberty.