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Kazakstan Expels Unregistered Foreign Missionaries

By Howard M. Friedman

Interfax reports today that Kazakhstan's Justice Minister Zagipa Baliyeva told a cabinet meeting today that a large number of foreign missionaries from the United States, Georgia, South Korea and Japan have been expelled from the country. The expulsions followed court findings that the foreigners were working as missionaries without the required registration. Baliyeva particularly mentioned the head of Narconon, an organization connected to the Church of Scientology, who was banned for five years from re-entering the country.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on July 29, 2008 (boomark / email).