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Following the Russian example, the self-declared People's Republics of Lugansk (LPR) and Donetsk (DPR) have banned Jehovah's Witnesses and other ‘non-traditional’ faiths. [17] The illegitimate regimes had already accused Jehovah's Witnesses of cooperating with the Ukrainian secret service SBU and neo-Nazi groups in 2017. [17]
Jehovah's Witnesses' activities in Kazakhstan were banned until 1997. [84] After the ban was lifted, members continued to experience police disruption and imprisonment. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] [ 87 ] Their activities are currently registered only in some regions of Kazakhstan, and the Watch Tower Society reports that the use of their literature is ...
Countries where Jehovah's Witnesses' activities are banned. In addition to the published figures for individual countries, statistics are also published collectively for countries where Jehovah's Witnesses operate covertly under ban, [7] [8] including several Islamic and communist states.
Russian media has also frequently denounced Jehovah's Witnesses and the Kyiv Patriarchate as being "pro-fascist". [ 53 ] On 2 December 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy entered a bill to the Verkhovna Rada that would officially ban all activities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) UOC in Ukraine.
In particular, 63% believe that Ukrainian Orthodox Church should be completely banned in Ukraine. Metropolitan Clement, spokesperson of the UOC criticized the bill in a statement on Facebook ...
In all, Jehovah's Witnesses brought 23 separate First Amendment actions before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1938 and 1946. [36] [37] Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone once quipped, "I think the Jehovah's Witnesses ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties." [38]
On 21 July 2015 the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses was banned throughout the Russian Federation. Jehovah's Witnesses say that the motion to ban them was originally filed on 7 August 2013 [43] but was overturned after they voluntarily removed certain publications from the version of the site presented to Russian IP addresses. [44]
For years until the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Father Ioann Burdin served as a priest in the Russian village of Karabanovo, 370 km (230 miles) northeast of Moscow. In spring 2022, Burdin ...