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...

America must never become numb to human rights violations, especially the suffering caused by infringing on religious liberty.Citizens can start by protecting America’s first freedom at home and championing it abroad.This week, Russia’s supreme court...

For the first time, Russia has been officially included among the worst countries in the world for religious freedom because of its ongoing crackdown against religious minorities, foreign missionaries and evangelists and last week's ban...

The claim filed by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on 15 March before the Supreme Court is the latest crackdown on, and a further escalation of the harassment and judicial persecution suffered...