Russian court bans Jehovah's Witnesses, rules group is extremist: agencies

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Thu Apr 20, 2017 | 12:01pm EDT

Russian court bans Jehovah's Witnesses, rules group is extremist: agencies

Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Jehovah's Witnesses was an "extremist" organization after the justice ministry applied for an order to shut down the group's national headquarters near St Petersburg, Russian news agencies reported.

Russian authorities have put several of the group's publications on a list of banned extremist literature, and prosecutors have long cast it as an organization that destroys families, fosters hatred and threatens lives, a description the organization says is false.

(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-religion-jehovah-s-idUSKBN17M1ZT

[Nitram]

1. Interesting. I wonder how many violent protests and terrorists acts have involved JWs.

[struggle4progress]

5. As pacifists, they'd be on the receiving end of that

[Nitram]

6. I realize that.

Apparently the Russian Orthodox Church is not above strong-arm tactics to reduce the competition. How very Christian of them.

[HAB911]

2. I wonder how many voted for Trump

[struggle4progress]

4. They don't vote

[hrmjustin]

3. Not a fan of that denomination but they are not terrorists.

It is Putin's way of appealing to the Russian Orthodox Church.