RUSSIA – Jehovah’s Witnesses Charged with Extremism

Ten Jehovah's Witnesses in Chuvashia were charged Monday with criminal acts including the incitement of hatred and extremism in a case that is raising new worries about religious freedom in Russia."This situation is a serious...

RUSSIA: More JW books to be banned

 In two separate cases Russia's FSB security service in Kostroma Region, north-east of the capital Moscow, and Prosecutors in Primorskiy Territory, on the Pacific west of Sakhalin Island, have confiscated religious literature, Forum 18 News...

Jehovah’s Witnesses Charged with Extremism

Ten Jehovah's Witnesses in Chuvashia were charged Monday with criminal acts including the incitement of hatred and extremism in a case that is raising new worries about religious freedom in Russia."This situation is a serious...

Ireland Residents Attend Largest Ever Jehovah’s Witnesses Convention

Years after convention held in Ireland, witnessed by thousands. It was in 1978 last when such a convention was held in Christian community. Yesterday, more than 9,000 people were present at Jehovah's Witnesses convention in...

May Day—What Does It Mean to You?

What comes to your mind when you hear of May Day? Parades and demonstrations? Maypole dancing? A day off work?DEPENDING on where you live, completely different views of May Day may come to mind. But...

Anti JW Billboard in Russia

 A huge bilboard in Russia as a one of a series of rejections of the Truth, inspired by clergy and government.    

Citizen of Russia criminalized for being one of Jehovah’s Witnesses

AKHTUBINSK, Russia—On February 17, 2012, the Akhtubinsk District Court, in the southern Volga region of Russia, began hearing a criminal case against Yelena Grigorieva, a 44-year-old mother and grandmother. During the first court session, the...

KYRGYZSTAN: “We have not been able to pray and worship together”

Since July 2011, "we have not been able to pray and worship together", an Ahmadi Muslim complained to Forum 18 News Service. Kyrgyzstan's State Commission for Religious Affairs (SCRA) has denied registration – or the...

Russian Witness forced to quit job and unjustly indicted as a target of religious harassment

AKHTUBINSK, Russia— Yelena Grigorieva is one of many individuals targeted in an official campaign against Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout Russia. On December 20, 2011, local investigator A. Gluschenko served 43-year-old Mrs. Grigorieva with an unjust indictment...

Court acquits Jehovah’s Witnesses leader charged with extremism

GORNO-ALTAYSK, December 22 - RAPSI. The Altai Republic Supreme Court revoked on Thursday the sentence of the head of a local branch of Jehovah's Witnesses who was earlier convicted of religious extremism, RIA Novosti reported...