{"id":2828,"date":"2017-03-02T18:14:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2017\/03\/02\/jehovahs-witnesses-ask-kremlin-for-relief-from-pressure\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:34","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-ask-kremlin-for-relief-from-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/jehovahs-witnesses-ask-kremlin-for-relief-from-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses ask Kremlin for relief from pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/psLYOIw.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow: auto\"><font face=\"Lato, sans-serif\" color=\"#58595b\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">MOSCOW (AP) &#8212; The leader of the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses in Russia is calling on the head of the Kremlin&#8217;s human rights council to prevent what the denomination fears is an imminent total ban on the religion.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow: auto\"><font face=\"Lato, sans-serif\" color=\"#58595b\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses, who claim more than 170,000 faithful in Russia, have come under increasing pressure in recent years, including a ban on distributing literature deemed to violate Russia&#8217;s anti-extremism laws.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow: auto\"><font face=\"Lato, sans-serif\" color=\"#58595b\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">In February, investigators conducted an inspection of the religion&#8217;s headquarters in St. Petersburg, which could be a precursor to a ban.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow: auto\"><font face=\"Lato, sans-serif\" color=\"#58595b\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">&#8220;A ban on its activity in Russia would cause uneasiness throughout the world,&#8221; the religion&#8217;s Russian leader, Vasily Kalin, said in a letter to presidential human rights council head Mikhail Fedotov. A copy was made available to The Associated Press on Thursday.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow: auto\"><font face=\"Lato, sans-serif\" color=\"#58595b\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">http:\/\/wbt.com\/jehovahs-witnesses-ask-kremlin-for-relief-from-pressure\/<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (AP) &#8212; The leader of the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses in Russia is calling on the head of the Kremlin&#8217;s human rights council to prevent what the denomination fears is an imminent total ban on the&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-2828","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\/2828","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=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5761,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions\/5761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}