ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Shortly before the Oct. 25 re-registration deadline for all of Kazakhstan’s religious communities, officials pressured nearly a quarter of the signatories on the re-registration application of Grace Protestant Church in Karaturyk to remove their names.  “It seems the authorities especially chose to target those founders who are of Kazakh and Uygur ethnicity,” Pastor Zhursyn Koshkinov said.  One…
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