- Wednesday
- July 16th, 2025
A Russian court in Siberia has sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to six years in prison amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group, which has been banned in the country since 2017. [caption id="attachment_6388" align="aligncenter"...
We warmly invite you to watch this year’s three-day convention presented by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s convention program is being presented on jw.org. Sessions will be posted incrementally in July...
After an absence of more than 2 years, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Argentina and around the world resume their “public ministry in person,” as announced in a statement issued in the last few hours. Portable displays...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has in a landmark decision against Russia, ruledthat it was unlawful to persecute Jehovah’s Witnesses for their faith. The court also ruled that the 2017 ban of Witnesses...
The Court of Appeal of Ghent criticizes the first degree judgement and concludes shunning is protected by religious liberty principles. [caption id="attachment_6366" align="aligncenter" width="640"] The Court of Appeal of Ghent. Credits.[/caption] Bitter Winter discussed in...
While Jehovah’s Witnesses have chosen to temporarily suspend their door-to-door ministry due to the pandemic, their activity was almost permanently banned by one U.S. village in the late 1990s — that is until the United...
On June 7, 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in “Teliatnikov v. Lithuania” on a case concerning Jehovah’s Witnesses and conscientious objection. Jehovah’s Witnesses maintain that for Biblical reasons they cannot serve in the...
Vladimir Putin - and formally - cuts ties with international law after Russia's withdrawal from the Council of Europe, as he signed the law terminating the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights in...
MOSCOW - A Russian court sentenced four members of the Jehovah's Witnesses, the US-based Christian evangelical movement, to six years in prison for "extremism", investigators said Tuesday. The four adherents of the Jehovah's Witnesses, who...
Russia must drop its ban on the Jehovah’s Witnesses, release the 91 members of the group in its jails, and stop prosecuting citizens for belonging to the movement, the European Court of Human Rights ruled...