Central Asia: hiding in plain sight

Open Doors  |  World
Date posted:  1 Feb 2015
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Central Asia: hiding in plain sight

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In a country where Christians often must meet secretly to avoid arrest, a group of women have taken the opposite approach: hiding in plain sight.

They meet to pray and encourage each other in a coffee shop, in one of the largest cities in Central Asia.

‘It is better for us to gather in a public place such as a coffee shop than to secretly meet in an apartment’, said the wife of a secret church pastor.

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