{"id":6511,"date":"2022-11-25T03:44:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/?p=6511"},"modified":"2022-11-25T03:44:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:44:16","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-now-officially-recognised-in-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/jehovahs-witnesses-now-officially-recognised-in-monaco\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses now officially recognised in Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision was published in the Official Journal after years of legal battles. <i>Persona non grata<\/i>\u00a0for a long time, due to suspicions of cult activities, the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses organisation is now an officially recognised religion in Monaco.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6512\" src=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/jPZx6m3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/jPZx6m3.jpg 900w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/jPZx6m3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/jPZx6m3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement was published in the Official Journal on 18 November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u201cAssociation mon\u00e9gasque pour le culte des T\u00e9moins de J\u00e9hovah\u201d, which has been present in Monaco for over 50 years, had been fighting to obtain the status of a recognised religion. It had taken its case to the Monegasque Supreme Court and to the European Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through its president C\u00e9dric Gal\u00e8s, the association welcomed \u201cthe fact that freedom of religion is a reality in Monaco\u201d and was keen to \u201cexpress \u00a0[its] gratitude to the State \u00a0for this impartial decision.\u201d\u00a0Furthermore, C\u00e9dric Gal\u00e8s pointed out that \u201cthe Christian religion of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses has been present in Monaco for over 50 years. It is also recognised in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision was published in the Official Journal after years of legal battles. Persona non grata\u00a0for a long time, due to suspicions of cult activities, the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses organisation is now an officially recognised religion&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inside-jw-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511","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=6511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6513,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511\/revisions\/6513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}