{"id":2891,"date":"2017-05-02T11:24:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T11:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2017\/05\/02\/russian-bishops-official-criticizes-ban-on-jehovahs-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:29","slug":"russian-bishops-official-criticizes-ban-on-jehovahs-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/russian-bishops-official-criticizes-ban-on-jehovahs-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian bishops\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 official criticizes ban on Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #000000\">The Russian Supreme Court has declared the Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses an extremist organization and ordered the confiscation of its property\u00e2\u20ac\u201dprompting criticism from the secretary-general of the Catholic bishops\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/CH1Jt6s.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #000000\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Churches like ours don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recognize the Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses as Christian and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t engage in dialogue with them, but we must distinguish theological issues from legal rights,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Msgr. Igor Kovalevsky said of the decision, which outlawed the sect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #000000\">He added, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are very strong misgivings among Catholics that we, too, may be facing, if not persecution, then at least new acts of discrimination and limits on our freedom of belief.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #000000\">http:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/news\/headlines\/index.cfm?storyid=31452\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Supreme Court has declared the Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses an extremist organization and ordered the confiscation of its property\u00e2\u20ac\u201dprompting criticism from the secretary-general of the Catholic bishops\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 conference. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Churches like ours don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recognize 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-2891","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\/2891","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=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}