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- August 24th, 2025
Russia isn't cracking down on religious minorities, and claims to the contrary are part of a concerted smear campaign by the US, a senior Moscow diplomat has insisted after Washington added the country to a...
Norfolk was one of the thousands of communities around the globe where volunteers spread out to help send a ‘message of hope’ in November as Jehovah’s Witnesses embarked upon a special campaign focusing attention on...
The three siblings were denied access to religious studies and kept in the same class for three years [caption id="attachment_5915" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Students attend a class at a village school in Panca, Aceh province, Indonesia,...
For the first time since the Supreme Court ban on Jehovah's Witnesses as "extremist" in 2017, a Vladivostok court yesterday (22 November) issued an acquittal. Dmitry Barmakin walked free after the Judge cited 28 October...
Courts have jailed four Jehovah's Witnesses for eight years each so far in 2021 for exercising freedom of religion or belief, one in Blagoveshchensk and three in Astrakhan, equalling the term a Dagestan court handed...
The United States on Wednesday updated its blacklist of countries “of particular concern” in terms of religious freedom. The government has thus added Russia but removed Nigeria, which was there last year, according to a...
Russia’s Supreme Court has banned the criminal prosecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses for joint worship, potentially putting an end to the law enforcement practice of jailing believers for prayer sessions. The ruling could also affect the...
Despite a further decision from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg that Azerbaijan had violated the human rights of two conscientious objectors, an adviser in the Presidential Administration's Human Rights Protection Unit...
Accra will be one of the thousands of communities around the globe that will receive a powerful message of hope this November, as Jehovah’s Witnesses embark on a special campaign focusing attention on the Bible’s...
From natural disasters to Covid pandemic, the Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) in the Philippines has been quietly yet consistently providing relief assistance to calamity survivors, including non-JW members, for 75 years now. Although the JWs is...