Russia

Is Religious Right Hero Vladimir Putin About To Ban Jehovah’s Witnesses?

Next week, the Supreme Court of Russia will hear a case involving the Jehovah’s Witnesses that the church says could lead to its national headquarters near St. Petersburg being shut down, along with 400 local organizations...

Russia’s police deliberately put prohibited forms, mainly extremist literature in the halls of Jehovah’s Witnesses

The Ministry of Justice of Russia requires a total ban on the large religion of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. They are charged with the storage and dissemination of extremist materials. However, Jehovah's Witnesses collected more...

Russia’s Supreme Court to continue hearings on Jehovah’s Witnesses ban

At Wednesday’s hearing, eyewitnesses will be questioned and then the court will be able to study the case files and hear the argumentsMOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. Russia’s Supreme Court will continue hearings on Wednesday on...

Day 4: Report: the Supreme Court is hearing a case on the prohibition of religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses

12 April8:00 AMMoscow, Cook Street. An invigorating morning. Frozen fingers. At the entrance more than 200 people. Those who are at the beginning of the line came to the court by taxi by 5:30, but they were not the...

Russia tries to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses, like Nazi Germany did before WWII

Russia’s Ministry of Justice says Jehovah’s Witnesses are ‘terrorists’; Russia’s Supreme Court to decide whether to outlaw the religion - yet againWashington, D.C.’s United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Website expresses deep concern over the Russian government’s...

SPECIAL REPORT RUSSIA’S ATTACK on RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

The Ministry of Justice issued a directive to suspend immediately the activity of the national Administrative Center and all 395 legal entities, or Local Religious Organizations (LROs), of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The directive effectively bans the...

Quotes From Supreme Court Case Against Jehovah’s Witnesses

“The brochure, Listen to God: It barely has any printed information. It contains pictures and Bible verses and a few brief expressions. What could be extremist in the brochure? The FSB pointed to one phrase...

Museum Statement on Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia

WASHINGTON – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is deeply concerned over recent reports of harassment of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia and the Russian Justice Ministry’s announced intent to ban the religion due to its members engaging...

Russia: Jehovah’s Witnesses Break Law by Refusing Blood Transfusions

Jehovah’s Witnesses break the law forbidding “extremism” when its members refuse blood transfusions, Russia’s Justice Ministry said Thursday at a Supreme Court hearing on the question of banning the religious group in the country. The...

RUSSIA: Police harassment as Supreme Court considers ban

Russia's Supreme Court is due to resume considering a total ban on Jehovah's Witness activity on 12 April. Already police in several towns have disrupted their worship. A Moscow community's rental of a hall to...