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Kabul Cancels Korean Christian Group's Event, Sends Organizers Away by admin in Miscellaneous visit site

Afghan officials say a three-day "peace festival" proposed by a South Korean Christian group has been canceled and its organizers expelled from the country. The event, which had been scheduled to start Saturday (August 5), was to include a medical conference and two soccer matches at Kabul's Olympic Stadium. It was being organized by the Institute of Asian Culture and Development, a Seoul-based Christian humanitarian aid group that has run medical clinics in Afghanistan since ...