{"id":9954,"date":"2025-03-03T14:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/?p=9954"},"modified":"2025-03-03T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:01:11","slug":"the-usa-state-department-calls-on-russia-to-respect-religious-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/the-usa-state-department-calls-on-russia-to-respect-religious-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"The USA State Department calls on Russia to respect religious freedoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US State Department said today that the decision of the Russian Supreme Court to stop the activities of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses in Russia is a disturbing act of persecution of religious minorities in the country and called for the ban to be repealed and the right to freedom respected of thought, conscience, religion and beliefs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9955\" src=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/u01igwH.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/u01igwH.jpeg 780w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/u01igwH-750x422.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/u01igwH-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/u01igwH-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We call on the Russian authorities to lift the ban on the activities of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses in Russia, reverse the decision to close the Administrative Center of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses, and release all members of religious minorities who continue to be unjustly held in detention for the so-called extremist activities&#8221;, says the statement, reports KosovaPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department said today that the decision of the Russian Supreme Court to stop the activities of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses in Russia is a disturbing act of persecution of religious minorities in the country&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954","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=9954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9956,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions\/9956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}