{"id":1750,"date":"2013-07-11T17:48:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T17:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2013\/07\/11\/russia-orthodox-relics-block-jehovahs-witness-meeting\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:31","slug":"russia-orthodox-relics-block-jehovahs-witness-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/russia-orthodox-relics-block-jehovahs-witness-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA: Orthodox relics block Jehovah&#8217;s Witness meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">A written Russian official refusal to allow Jehovah&#8217;s Witness to meet for worship in Nizhny Novgorod Region, made in consultation with a local Orthodox bishop, provides rare evidence that state opposition to Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses is fuelled by support for the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), Forum 18 News Service has found.<\/div>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;As the administration, we conduct all our activity in close contact with the [Moscow Patriarchate] Diocese,&#8221; the official who drafted the refusal, Svetlana Zakharova, confirmed to Forum 18 on 10 July. &#8220;There&#8217;s not a single question affecting the interests of one side or the other that we don&#8217;t decide collegially.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The refusal comes amid more government attempts to outlaw Jehovah&#8217;s Witness texts in different Russian regions, as well as prosecutions of people distributing Jehovah&#8217;s Witness works earlier ruled &#8220;extremist&#8221; (see below).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Full Article Here:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/www.forum18.org\/archive.php?article_id=1856<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A written Russian official refusal to allow Jehovah&#8217;s Witness to meet for worship in Nizhny Novgorod Region, made in consultation with a local Orthodox bishop, provides rare evidence that state opposition to Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5700,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/5700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}