Christianity in Uzbekistan

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Prior to the advent of Islam, present-day Uzbekistan had sizable communities^{[citation needed]} of eastern Christians, including Nestorians and Jacobites. Initially tolerated by the Muslim rulers, they came under increasing persecution and pressure to convert.^{[citation needed]} Around 1400, Tamerlane engaged in a fierce campaign to externimate Chrisitanity within his empire. The last Christian churches in Samarkand and Central Asia were destroyed by his grandson, Ulugh Beg. ^[1]

Christianity returned to the region after the Russian conquest in 1867, when Russian Orthodox churches were built in large cities, to serve Russian and European settlers and officers.

According to a 2009 US State Department release, about 5 % of the population of Uzbekistan are orthodox, most of whom are ethnic Russians.^[2] There are about 4000 Roman Catholics in Uzbekistan.^{[citation needed]} New parishes cannot register.^{[citation needed]} In 2006 a law, by which printing religious books can be punished with three years, came. The government indulges in massive persecution of Christians. There is strong pressure on Christians from a Muslim background in remote areas. Uzbekistan was designated to its list of countries of particular concern of the U. S. State Department.

Protestants

Protestants are less than one percent of the population. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Uzbekistan has seven parishes. The seat of the bishop is Tashkent. The president of the synod is Gilda Razpopova.

Protestant Denominations

• Baptist Union in Uzbekistan
• German Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Korean Baptist Churches
• Korean Methodist Church
• Korean Presbyterian church

References

1. ^ Dickens, Mark "Nestorian Christianity in Central Asia. p. 17
2. ^ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2924.htm

• Source of the list: The World Christian Encyclopedia, Second edition, volume 1, p. 795

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Uzbekistan
• Russian Orthodox Church in Uzbekistan‎