Russia

“New law puts additional requirements on any religious leader who was trained abroad.” - C.Today

“As Russia silences political dissidents, religious minorities—including evangelicals—find ways to grow during a chill” - WORLD

“…in July 2016, the president of Russia signed a package of “antiterrorist laws” that became known by their co-author name as the Yarovaya Laws. In practice the so-called anti-terrorist laws turned out to be anti-missionary and even anti-church laws.” - C.Leaders

“Following Russia’s ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses, evangelical Protestants have become the most-punished group under the country’s controversial “anti-missionary laws.” - Christianity Today

“The government, now nationalist rather than Communist, treats the Orthodox Church as a de facto state church.” - National Review

“[T]he Russian federation has seized the Jehovah’s Witness administrative center campus worth $30.4 million US dollars. The property has been transferred to the Federal State-funded institution Almazov National Medical Research of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation.” - WRN

Doug Wilson: The president caused a stir the other way when he told Bill O’Reilly that there are lots of killers out there, and that America is “not so innocent” … But the offense that was taken to Trump’s remark had a curious religiously indignant feel to it, as though the president had just heaved a dead polecat at the high altar. How dare he compare us in any way to the lousy Russians?

“One Sunday morning in August, three policemen came to Don Ossewaarde’s home in Russia, where the Baptist missionary from Illinois was holding his weekly Bible study.”

Russia Enacts Law to Restrict Religious Freedom and Missionary Activities

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