Authorities raided homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses in northern Russia as part of a criminal probe into extremism against the banned religious organization, investigators said in a statement Monday.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Montenegro's parliament approves religion law despite protests
Under the law, religious communities in the tiny Adriatic state would need to prove property ownership from before 1918, when predominantly Orthodox Christian Montenegro joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the predecessor of the now-defunct Yugoslavia.
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Thursday, December 26, 2019
Russia Detains 2 Jehovah’s Witnesses on Christmas
Authorities in northwestern Russia have detained what they say are two branch leaders of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group, investigators said Wednesday.
They accused the unnamed 45-year-old and 67-year-old of “organizing extremist activity” in the form of religious services in the city of Vologda.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Online, audio Bible Study.
Study the Bible, your Bible, in the privacy of your own home.
Learn the answers to the following subjects and many more.
Are We Living in “the Last Days”?
Why Does God Allow Suffering?
How to Make Your Family Life Happy
Jesus Christ—The Promised Messiah
Learn the answers to the following subjects and many more.
Are We Living in “the Last Days”?
Why Does God Allow Suffering?
How to Make Your Family Life Happy
Jesus Christ—The Promised Messiah
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Monday, December 23, 2019
US Bill Accuses Russia Of Religious Freedom Violations In Crimea
The legislation accuses Russia of religious freedom violations that target Muslim Crimean Tatars, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, as well as Protestant Christians and Jehovah's Witnesses sect in Donbas.
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Putin’s directive on Jehovah's Witnesses imminent
Russian President Vladimir Putin will soon give instructions after the December meeting with members of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights and one of them concerns Jehovah's Witnesses, a religious organization outlawed in Russia.
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Russia Is Stepping Up Its Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
In a drab apartment building in outer Moscow, seven adults and two small children crowded around a computer screen and sang a hymn as quietly as they could.
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Russia : Jehovah's Witnesses, in particular, have been targeted
In the past, you've suggested that you didn't support how the Jehovah's Witnesses were being targeted. And yet, just this week, a Jehovah's Witness in Penza was sentenced to six years in prison under the law. Why are law enforcement agencies targeting religious groups like this?
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Tajikistan : Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors
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Tajikistan provides no exemptions for conscientious
objection. In April 2018, Daniil Islamov—a Jehovah’s
Witness—was released from prison after serving out a
six-month sentence for refusing military service
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Christmas pagan celebration: Jehovah Witnesses
A Christian sect, the Jehovah’s Witnesses is shunning worldwide frenetic preparations for Christmas, meant to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
The group banned in Russia dismisses Christmas as a pagan celebration.
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Friday, December 20, 2019
TAJIKISTAN: Jehovah's Witness prisoner denied Bible
Despite Tajikistan's binding international obligations under the United Nations (UN) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, no arrests or prosecutions appear to have taken place against officials who tortured Jehovah's Witnesses, Protestants, or followers of other beliefs.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019
How Russia Is Stepping Up Its Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
A chilly November weeknight in a drab apartment building in outer Moscow, seven adults and two small children crowded around a computer screen and sang a hymn as quietly as they could.
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Jehovah Witness Building Must Pay NYC Water And Sewer Charges
Some organizations within the City of New York have a unusual benefit – they are exempted from having to pay for water and sewer charges. Religious organizations are entitled to the benefit if the water and sewerage they use is in real estate used in a public place of worship.
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Persecution Against Jehovah’s Witnesses Escalates in China
For the first time, the article of the Criminal Code against xie jiao (“heterodox teachings”) is used in Xinjiang to indict 18 Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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Russia moves to ban Jehovah‘s Witnesses as extremists like Al-Qaida, ISIS
A dedicated pacifist who has never even held a gun, Andrei Sivak discovered that his government considered him a dangerous extremist when he tried to change some money and the teller “suddenly looked up at me with a face full of fear.”
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Russian court sends Jehovah’s Witness to prison for 6 years
The court in Oryol on Wednesday found Dennis Christensen, who was leading the local Bible reading, guilty of extremism, making him the first Jehovah’s Witness in Russia to have been sent to prison.
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Monday, December 16, 2019
Reward for Thurston County Jehovah's Witnesses attacks increased
There have been seven attacks on Kingdom and Assembly Halls in Thurston County since March 2018.
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Heavy prison sentence against Russian Jehovah’s Witness
A Russian court has sentenced 55-year-old Vladimir Alushkin to six years’ imprisonment for supposed ‘extremist activities’, namely reading the Bible and practising his faith.
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U.S. congressmen want to punish Russia for violations of religious freedom
According to the bill, for purposes of making a determination of whether to designate Russia as a country of particular concern for religious freedom
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Sunday, December 15, 2019
Russia: Six Jehovah's Witnesses given prison sentences
One man became the second Jehovah's Witness to receive a six year prison sentence in Russia in the last two months. Moscow has outlawed the fringe Christian group, saying they are dangerous extremists.
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UZBEKISTAN: Obstacles, pressure, bribe demands obstruct legal status applications
The official claimed, in his speech addressing the Protestants in the meeting, that the "reason you have difficulty gaining registration for your communities is the Jehovah's Witnesses. It is because the local authorities cannot distinguish between Christians and Jehovah's Witnesses."
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Witnesses’ website beats Facebook
Move aside Facebook and Twitter. The record for most translated website belonged to JW.org, the official site of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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Preached at in Pukekura Park
Until something out of the ordinary happens, we don't much notice some things around us, like traffic, noise, tides, scenery, the routines of life.
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Dominic Blackwell, one of Jehovah's Witnesses, slain in Saugus High shooting
Dominic Michael Blackwell used to join his mother, a Jehovah’s Witness, for her Saturday morning walks around Santa Clarita, preaching to their neighbors.
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Jehovah's Witnesses start bumper weekend in Ballarat
ALMOST 2000 Jehovah's Witnesses have been exploring Ballarat's key tourist spots ahead of a global convention in Melbourne.
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Jehovah’s Witness Cancer Patient and Blood Transfusions
Boy, 14, and mother would not consent to doctors to perform transfusion because of their religion, but said they would respect law.
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Verdicts vary for Jehovah’s Witnesses refusing conscription
Jehovah’s Witnesses refusing mandatory military service have regularly been found guilty or not guilty of evading conscription based on whether they had “true faith.”
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Jehovah's Witnesses driven out of school in Batam
Two students refused to salute the national flag and sing the anthem, acts their faith deems idolatrous. For the local education agency, this “is against our obligation as Indonesians.”
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Holocaust Survivor: A Jehovah’s Witness Tale
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jewish people by the Nazi Party between 1941 and 1945. Nazi Germany systematically murdered six million Jewish people throughout German-occupied Europe.
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Jehovah's Witnesses mark online milestone
On Nov. 4 jw.org, the official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses, reached an unprecedented translation milestone — it now includes articles, videos and audio content available in 1,000 languages, including 100 sign languages.
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Most translated site: Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses official website, jw.org, is available in 1,004 languages, surpassing Google Translate, Facebook ang Wikipedia.
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New Jehovah's Witness hall opens
Last fall, Perkins Township trustees approved the site plan before construction began April 30. The 1-story, 3,000 square-foot building opened Oct. 20. The new Kingdom Hall is at 5014 Hayes Ave. at West Bogart Road.
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Russia jails Jehovah's Witness adherent for six years over extremism
A Russian court jailed a Jehovah’s Witness adherent for six years on Friday after finding him guilty of extremist activity, part of a crackdown on the group that human rights activists say violates religious freedom.
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