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Chris Smith: Ten years after the Taliban, not a single public Christian church remains in Afghanistan.

On the recordOctober 26, 2011
Ten years after the Taliban, not a single public Christian church remains in Afghanistan.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith highlights the lack of Christian churches in Afghanistan post-Taliban.

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