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Fiji government expands crackdown on Methodists

New York, August 30 (ENInews)--Fiji's military government has expanded a
crackdown on the Methodist Church, banning all church meetings except for
Sunday worship and forbidding clergy from leaving the country.

Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Neumi Leweni was quoted in an
article on the Fiji Times website on 30 August as saying that Methodist leaders
will need to "seek clarification" from the government for meetings (except
worship) or foreign travel.

The restrictions came in a letter from the Fiji Military Council,
according to a 30 August news release from the Methodist Church in Britain, which
has been following closely events in the former British colony.