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According to the Finnish Immigration Service, last year, “several dozen” members of the movement came to Finland as asylum seekers, whereas in previous years the cases were mostly isolated.
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April 24, 2018
Lawyers have compared the persecution of Christensen to genocide | JW News
The lawyers of the Dane Dennis Christensen accused of organizing the activities of the organization “Jehovah’s Witnesses” banned in Russia (Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in Orel compared his persecution with genocide. This defense attorney Viktor Zhenkov said April 23 in the Zheleznodorozhny District Court, where the trial of the Dane began.
April 6, 2018
Is it a crime to worship God in Russia? | JW News
Is it a crime to worship God? Does government have any business dictating the answer? Those who take religious freedom seriously should pay close attention to the trial of Dennis Christensen, going on now in Orel, Russia, where belief and practice of a religion are being criminalized.
April 6, 2018
Trial Of Jehovah’s Witness Adjourned In Russia | JW News
A preliminary hearing into a criminal case against Jehovah’s Witness Dennis Christensen, a 46-year old Danish citizen charged with extremism, was adjourned shortly after resuming in Russia’s central city of Oryol.
March 26, 2018
Court ruled to block four sites of Jehovah’s Witnesses | JW News
The Prokhladnensky District Court granted the suit of the Prokhladny prosecutor’s office and decided to limit access to four sites of Jehovah’s Witnesses, including the site “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia”.
March 26, 2018
Arsonist who targeted 2 Jehovah’s Witnesses | JW News
Wash. – Members of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Tumwater had just returned to their building Monday morning when they smelled the smoke and saw the flames.
March 24, 2018
The prosecutor’s office demands to deprive “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Sweden” | JW News
Prosecutors of the Saratov region through the court demanded to deprive the religious organization “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Sweden” * an apartment building with a plot of land in the city of Engels, told RIA Novosti in the Engels district court of the Saratov region.
March 21, 2018
The transaction with the real estate of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Seversk is recognized as fictitious | JW News
TOMSK, March 15 – RIA Tomsk. The Seversky Town Court in early 2018 recognized as a fictitious real estate transaction owned by Jehovah’s Witnesses, the property was transferred to federal property; similar cases are now being considered in two more district courts in the Tomsk region. How and why this happens – in the material of RIA Tomsk.
March 19, 2018
Belarus demands to suspend activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses | JW News
A petition to the Commissioner for Religious Affairs and Nationalities in Belarus, Leonid Gulyako, with a request to conduct a state religious expert examination of the teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses appeared on the site change.org. Its author noted someone Maxim Arsentiev.
March 11, 2018
Jehovah’s Witnesses: constitutional rights of believers are violated in Russia | JWNews
The campaign launched in the country to persecute the advocates of Jehovah’s Witnesses is becoming more and more massive and consistent, which became possible after the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
March 8, 2018
Armenia lost the case to Jehovah’s Witnesses in ECHR | JWNews
Armenia lost the next case to the European Court of Human Rights. This time the case concerns four representatives of the religious organization “Jehovah’s Witnesses” (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation).
March 5, 2018
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Finland’s news.
Finland’s largest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat drew attention to the lawsuit around the building on Pervomaisky Prospekt, which belongs to the Finnish religious organization Jehovan todistaja (Jehovah’s Witnesses *).
February 16, 2018
On the site of the Kingdom Hall of “Jehovah’s Witnesses” in St. Petersburg will be the information center of the Almazov Clinic | JW News
It is noted that the building where the “Jehovah’s Witnesses” (the religious organization banned in Russia) used to be located at the place where the information office of the famous clinic will appear.
February 12, 2018
Taken away for questioning”: details of mass searches of “Jehovah’s Witnesses” in Belgorod | JW News
In Belgorod and Kemerovo , searches were conducted in the homes of citizens and the detention of members of the community of “Jehovah’s Witnesses”. They are suspected of continuing the activities of the organization “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia”, which the Supreme Court of Russia recognized as extremist on April 20, 2017.
February 7, 2018
Court demanding that the transfer of the building to Finnish Jehovah’s Witnesses be invalidated | JW News
On February 6, 2018 it became known that in Petrozavodsk the prosecutor’s office sent a statement to the court demanding that the transfer of the building on Pervomaisky Avenue, 52 Finnish Jehovah’s Witnesses, be invalid.
January 18, 2018
FYI, Stele Fragment Unearthed in Northern Egypt | JW News
Images of King Ramesses II presenting offerings to an as-yet-unidentified Egyptian deity
January 18, 2018
Jehovah’s Witnesses Request Court to Return Property in St. Petersburg
In St. Petersburg, the representatives of the “Watchtower Society, Bibles and Treatises of Pennsylvania” dispute the decision of the Sestroretsk District Court that seized from the American legal entity at the end of last year a property complex whose commercial value is estimated at 1, 8 billion rubles.
January 17, 2018
Putin Says Communist Ideology Is Christian | JW News
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Soviet communist ideology was similar to Christianity and rooted in Biblical basics and compared Vladimir Lenin to a saint.
January 16, 2018
Verses in the gospels that contain Jehovah’s Name
Verses that contain direct or indirect quotations from the “Old Testament”
January 16, 2018
Jehovah’s Witness about the ban of the organization in Russia | JW News
On April 20, 2017, the Supreme Court recognized the activities of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Management Center in Russia as extremist. The Sun banned the work of a religious organization and confiscated its property
January 13, 2018
KAZAKHSTAN: Jehovah’s Witness cancer sufferer not freed
A second United Nations body has called for Jehovah’s Witness prisoner of conscience, cancer-sufferer Teymur Akhmedov to be freed.
January 1, 2018
Bratislava, We visited Jehovah’s Witnesses to talk | JW News
Around 100 believers in Bratislava suburb Petržalka listen to advice on how to talk to people on the street.
“Do not forget the fresh breath,” says the speaker from the podium.
January 1, 2018
Jehovah’s Witnesses come to Bakersfield | JW News
They are probably the best-dressed, best-behaved group of convention-goers to come to Bakersfield each year.
January 1, 2018
5,500 expected to attend Jehovah’s Witnesses Convention | JW News
“The ‘Imitate Jesus’ convention will examine Jesus’ life, as outlined in the Bible, and emphasize how all — regardless of their background, lifestyle or religion — can benefit in practical ways from his example and teachings.”
January 1, 2018
New Orangeburg Assembly Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses | JW News
The 3,000-seat Assembly Hall sits on 58 acres near the intersection of S.C. Highway 33 and Interstate 26. An open house was held Friday.
The center will serve primarily as a location to educate the Jehovah’s Witnesses on Biblical principles for daily life.
January 1, 2018
Nigeria: Jehovah’s witness hold convention | JW News
Jehovah’s Witnesses sect have been advised to get closer to God and never give up on their dreams.This is despite their fear, opposition and hardship occasioned by the economic downturn.
December 21, 2017
Jehovah’s Witness ‘Bloodless’ double-lung transplant in Toronto | JW News
Forty-year-old Kory Bradshaw is a Jehovah’s Witness who needed a double lung transplant. Because of his religion, a blood transfusion wasn’t allowed. Despite a risk of death, the surgery was performed successfully at Toronto General Hospital.
