Russia Jails Jehovah's Witness for 7.5 Years More MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court has sentenced a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses to 7.5 years in prison, a spokesman for the religious denomination said, while in Moscow state investigators opened a new criminal investigation into the ...
Russia Jails Jehovah's Witness for 8 Years After 'Mole' Secretly Films Worship Meeting More (Reuters) - A court in southwestern Russia has sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to eight years in prison after finding him guilty of organising "extremist activities", according to ...
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MOSCOW (AP) — A regional court in western Russia on Wednesday sentenced a Danish Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison, in arguably the most severe crackdown on religious freedom in Russia in recent years. The court in Oryol found Dennis Christensen guilty of extremism, making him the ...
A woman in her 40s from the Kanto region raised as a second-generation Jehovah’s Witness is speaking out about the trauma she experienced growing up while belonging to the religious group.
Eight people have been shot dead and three others seriously injured in an attack on a Jehovah's Witness building in the German city of Hamburg, according to police. They said the shooting was carried out by a lone gunman who may be among the dead, although this ha...
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — A gunman stormed a service at his former Jehovah’s Witness hall in Germany, killing six people before taking his own life after police arrived, authorities in the port city of Hamburg said Friday. Police gave no motive for Thursday night’s attack. But they acknow...
A variation on the right-not-to-speak problem came up in a more recent Jehovah’s Witnesses case and has become a 21st- century issue. New Hampshire’s automobile license plates are embossed with the state motto: “Live Free or Die.” Witness George Wooley objected to being “coerced by ...
“That hope is the reason I’m still here. It helps me to fight through everything that I’ve gone through,” Taylor shared. “We’ll be in a place where there’s nothing but love, peace, and joy. I’ll be able to do everything I can’t do now!” ...
"It makes you feel really ill about somebody who has some sort of animosity towards any religion, yet alone a Jehovah's Witness of Kingdom Hall," Snaza said, according to KOMO. "So how frustrating is it that people who find a solemn place of worship, and now it's being destroyed?"...