{"id":2906,"date":"2017-06-08T18:50:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2017\/06\/08\/president-putin-gives-parenting-award-to-jehovahs-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:25:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:25:33","slug":"president-putin-gives-parenting-award-to-jehovahs-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/president-putin-gives-parenting-award-to-jehovahs-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"President Putin Gives Parenting Award to Jehovah’s Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0NEW YORK<\/span>,\u00c2\u00a0June 8, 2017<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ –\u00c2\u00a0On\u00c2\u00a0May 31, 2017<\/span>, Russian President\u00c2\u00a0Vladimir Putin<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0awarded the Order of “Parental Glory” to\u00c2\u00a0Valeriy and Tatiana Novik<\/span>, Jehovah’s Witnesses from Karelia, who raised eight children, during a ceremony in\u00c2\u00a0Moscow<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0at the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

The Order of “Parental Glory” was instituted by presidential decree in\u00c2\u00a0May 2008<\/span>.\u00c2\u00a0Russia<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0awards this honor to parents who have raised at least seven children and have shown extraordinary care for their family’s health and education, as well as their physical, mental, and moral development. Families awarded the Order are considered models that strengthen the family institution.<\/p>\n

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David A. Semonian<\/span>, a spokesman for Jehovah’s Witnesses at their world headquarters, states: “We view this award as an acknowledgement that the free Bible education provided by Jehovah’s Witnesses helps parents and their children to be productive citizens not only in\u00c2\u00a0Russia<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0but all over the world. We hope that this award presented by President Putin is considered on\u00c2\u00a0July 17, 2017<\/span>, when the Russian Supreme Court reviews the decision to liquidate the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in\u00c2\u00a0Russia<\/span>.”<\/p>\n

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For more information, please see the\u00c2\u00a0Newsroom<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0section of\u00c2\u00a0jw.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Media Contact:
<\/em>David A. Semonian<\/span><\/span>, Office of Public Information, +1-845-524-3000<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE Jehovah’s Witnesses Office of Public Information\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0NEW YORK,\u00c2\u00a0June 8, 2017\u00c2\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ –\u00c2\u00a0On\u00c2\u00a0May 31, 2017, Russian President\u00c2\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00c2\u00a0awarded the Order of “Parental Glory” to\u00c2\u00a0Valeriy and Tatiana Novik, Jehovah’s Witnesses from Karelia, who raised eight children, during a ceremony in\u00c2\u00a0Moscow\u00c2\u00a0at the Kremlin. The Order…<\/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-2906","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\/2906","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=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5739,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/5739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}