Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
Andrew Higgins writes in The New York Times, reporting from Moscow: The president, speaking in the Kremlin in December, declared that prosecuting people for their religious affiliations was “a total nonsense” and had to stop. But instead of curbing a…
In April 2017, Jehovah’s Witnesses were declared an extremist organization and outlawed by Russia’s top court. Their ordeal continues: A spokesperson for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, an organization that Russia labeled extremist in 2017, alleged that at least seven adherents of…
Christianity Today reports from Moscow: It’s official. Jehovah’s Witnesses can no longer practice their faith freely in Russia, where the Supreme Court on Thursday declared the pacifist religious organization an “extremist group” and banned all of its activity. The judge ordered…