Christians Criticize Tajik Bill Barring Youth From Churches, Mosques

17/2/2011 QURGHONTEPPA, Tajikistan — Russian Orthodox Christians in southern Tajikistan are critical of a draft law on “parental responsibility” that would ban children under 18 from worshipping in churches, mosques, and other houses of worship, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reports. Nikolay Golub, the pastor of the Russian Orthodox Church in Qurghonteppa, told RFE/RL on February 16 that it is unacceptable that children would be banned from going to church