Since Ban, Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses Is ‘Worse Than Ever’ | Sojourners

Since Ban, Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses Is ‘Worse Than Ever’

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Since the Russian Supreme Court labeled Jehovah’s Witnesses an “extremist” group, vandals have targeted followers and their banks accounts have been frozen. Stones were thrown at a St. Petersburg assembly hall, and someone tried to burn the Moscow home of a Jehovah’s Witness to the ground, a church spokesman said.

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