Jehovah's Witnesses magazines banned in Russia.

by koolaid-man 11 Replies latest jw friends

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  koolaid-man

  After their comments in the July 15-2012 Watchtower, stating Apostates are mentally diseased, their magazines should be banned around the world.

  http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=9010

  26 January 2012, 14:59

  Arbitration Court confirms the ban on spreadingJehovah's Witnesses magazines in Russia

  Moscow, January 26, Interfax - The 9th Arbitration Appeal Court confirmed the Russian Supervisory Agency for Communications ban on spreading in Russia magazines of Jehovah's Witnesses, the Novye Izvestia paper reports on Thursday.
  
  According to estimations of Alexander Dvorkin, who heads Expert Council for Religion Studies at the Justice Ministry, several thousands sects work in Russia, about 600-800 thousand people are involved in them.
  
  However, the edition tells, the number of sectarian has reduced several times in Russia if compared to 1990s.
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  DaCheech

  the wt better watch out, and evaluate every word they print.
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  wha happened?

  and now they get to waive the persecution card
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  WTWizard

  I hope rubbish like that does get them banned. It seems that there is a major pattern--and I hope the whole pattern, not just isolated articles, results in them getting banned everywhere.
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  DaCheech

  i thought revelation prophecy predicted that ALL OTHER religions would be destroyed first?
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  2tone

  Those iditos at the writing department think they can have whatever they want in there stupid magazine. Well, they burned themselves this time.
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  jookbeard

  about time and good, well done to the Ruskies.
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  Open mind

  Sorry to hear about this infringement on freedom of expression.

  (No matter how much you may dislike the expression.)

  om
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  Londo111

  Some will see this as evidence of the "King of the North" as hearing "reports" "out of the sunrising and out of the north"--and view this as the tribulation being imminent.
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  Sic Semper Tyrannis

  When I lived there, they hadn't been allowed to preach for some time. Instead they sat on commuter trains with the magazines spread out beside them in a manner which invited conversation. What they are evidently doing now is preventing them from giving these magazines to non-Witnesses. The religion itself is not banned. What the law is saying now is that there is to be no proselytizing. If a someone wanted to become a Witness, he or she'd have to seek them out, not the other way around. All over the former Soviet Union, JWs are looked upon as Scientologists are here - a dirty and money laundering cult which infests and destroys families.

  Russia has never been particularly inviting to new religions. They have a huge skinhead movement there, and it wasn't recommended to go out the night of April 20th, Hitler's birthday. I never even knew when Hitler's birthday was or even cared until I was there.