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TURKMENISTAN

WHAT CSW IS DOING TO HELP TURKMENISTAN

- Christians in Turkmenistan will continue to be mentioned in our prayer calendar. As we receive updates we hope to publish them in future issues of Outcry.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

You can PRAY

 - that the persecution in Turkmenistan will stop

 - that the minimum membership requirements will be eliminated, allowing smaller denominations and congregations to worship

 - that wrongly imprisoned Christians would be freed, and that in the interim they would be treated humanely

 - for provision and encouragement for those imprisoned, as well as their families

 - for the church in Turkmenistan to flourish even under oppression


You can PROTEST

Write to your Senator at U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510, or your Representative at U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515.  (Call the Capitol Hill Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 to find out your Congressperson’s name). Ask your Congressperson to raise your concerns with both the Congress and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and to additionally raise this in appropriate international forums.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Fax: (202) 261-8577 
Phone: (202) 647-4000
Email: secretary@state.gov

Write a polite letter to the Turkmenistan Embassy in the US

His Excellency Ambassador Meret B. Orazov
Embassy of Turkmenistan
2207 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20008 
Phone: (202) 588-1500
Fax: (202) 588-0697
E-mail: turkmen@earthlink.net

***For help with letter-writing, please click here

You can PETITION

To view all of CSW's current petitions, please click here

WEB LINKS

http://www.worldevangelical.org/persec_turkmenistan_22may02.html - World Evangelical Alliance

Forum 18 - 

For more background see Forum 18's report on the 2003 religion law at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=180

and Forum 18's latest religious freedom survey at
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=151