Under the guise of battling “extremism,” Russian authorities decided last month to ban the Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization. The decision to prohibit the organization, seize its property, and shut down its operations came in the...

The Moscow Patriarch distances itself from the government policy but at the same time terms it  "a positive gesture". The ban also concerns Catholics, who fear "new forms of discrimination". The Russian "symphony" between the...

Jehovah's Witness prisoner of conscience, pensioner and cancer-sufferer Teymur Akhmedov was jailed in Astana on 2 May for five years and banned for a further three years from conducting "ideological/preaching activity". He denied KNB secret...

Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked the Russian President Vladimir Putin to work for the protection of human rights in his country. During her visit to Sochi, the chancellor named the rights of homosexuals in Chechnya...

CLAIMPresident Trump offered asylum to Russian Jehovah's Witnesses.RATING FALSEORIGINShortly after a Russian court labeled Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist group in April 2017, a series of fake news articles were published claiming that President Trump had offered asylum...

The Russian Supreme Court has declared the Jehovah’s Witnesses an extremist organization and ordered the confiscation of its property—prompting criticism from the secretary-general of the Catholic bishops’ conference. “Churches like ours don’t recognize the Jehovah’s Witnesses...

Moscow, May 2, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church sees Jehovah's Witnesses as a dangerous sect and has supported the ban imposed on it in Russia."This is a sect, totalitarian and harmful at that. I am well...

Six days of hearings took Russian Supreme Court to rule on the claim of the Ministry of Justice of the liquidation and ban the activities of all the 396 registered Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia."When the...