John Lindsay Barltrop

THIS IS FROM RUSSIA RELIGION NEWS
Local Jehovah's Witnesses congregations seek involvement in court proceedings
22 CRIMEAN JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ORGANIZATIONS SUBMIT DECLARATION TO RUSSIAN SUPREME COURT
Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, 30 March 2017
 
The Ministry of Justice is demanding to liquidate, find extremist, ban, and confiscate the buildings of all 396 registered organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, including 22 organizations in Crimea. For the 8,000 believers on the peninsula, who have professed their religion freely for decades, this news was completely unexpected.
 
These 22 local religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in the republic of Crimea were registered on the initiative of Russian authorities in May 2015. Since then they have not received from the state any charges, fines, or warnings. Therefore they are extremely perplexed with regard to the initiative of the Ministry of Justice to ban them and to recognize them as extremist.
 
Most disturbing is that the Ministry of Justice considered it possible to declare all these organizations outside the law—behind their back and without involving them in the case. The plaintiff's declaration—with much delay—was sent only to the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.
 
For this reason, 22 Crimean local religious organizations filed in the Supreme Court a petition for involving them in the case in the capacity of an administrative co-defendant. They recall that in the Russian federation the right to judicial protection is among the basic inalienable rights. (tr. by PDS, posted 30 March 2017)

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A RUSSIAN ORTHODOX BISHOP HAS STATED THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT BAN THE WITNESSES BECAUSE THAT WOULD GIVE MORE ATTENTION TO THEM AND MORE PEOPLE WILL BECOME JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES.
EVERYONE KEEP UP THE LETTER WRITING AND KEEP GIVING ATTENTION. DO NOT BE SILENT.. PRAISE JAH. http://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/170327b.html

Thank Jehovah tonight in prayer for his wonderful works!
"The heavens are declaring the glory of God; And of the work of his hands the expanse is telling." (Psalm 19:1) NWT

@The Librarian @Queen Esther It is so wonderful to see the Unity Worldwide to worship Our God Jehovah! We need all the reminders we have to keep Our People encouraged! Jehovah will act towards the Nations soon! He has Loyal Love for His People! Agape, Bible Speaks 
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The photo shows how some Jehovah’s Witnesses from central Europe lined up to purchase stamps for letters they want to send to Russia,
When one Jehovah’s Witness came into the DHL courier service, he greeted them, they immediately asked from afar:
“To Putin?”
They said that they cancel other orders for Monday, Tuesday, because they already have all the couriers busy with your letters. #StopJWBan
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Thank  you  Brother  John,  very  kindly  your  comment ❤   I  will  do  my  best,  yes !

@TrueTomHarley   Oh,  I  often  recognize  apostates  from  my  intensive  FB  time !!  I  know  their  extreme  weird  bla bla....  But  I  stop  it  fast !!   Why  you  speaking  of  them ?  Not  a  good  sign !!  I  will  watching  that  -  and  I'm  sure,  here  are  alot  apostates !  I  read  their  long  texts  all  around  the  Bible...   But  lets  here  stop  now  -  its  the  wrong  topic !!  Good  Night  from  Germany  --------------

Thank YOU Queen Esther..........and keep up those informative posts, you do a terrific job, and I am sure that I could say:             "We all love you, our dear Sister"

It may be that I owe Queen Esther an apology, for she posts much fine content.
If you see someone accosted by an apostate and the reaction is far afield from what you would expect it would be, it can be hard to get your head around why that would be. It is my bad, perhaps. I'll just have to work harder to get my head around it.

YES....  its  often  difficult  with  you  perfect  English  speaking  Brothers.....  hahaha   Better  only  short  and  simple  comments  please,  ok?  My  comp.- translater  is  my  good  friend  here but  it  cost  more  time  by  long  comments....
Thank  you  my  dear  Brothers ❤
 

Okay. Well, she knows one or two languages more than me, and that is a good thing. She may not realize that there are certain - how can they not be apostates? - who jump upon some of her posts and undercut / ridicule them. She would not like that if she knew, for she works so hard to provide upbuilding content.

Thank YOU Queen Esther..........and keep up those informative posts, you do a terrific job, and I am sure that I could say:             "We all love you, our dear Sister"

"It may be that I owe Queen Esther an apology, for she posts much fine content"
English is not Queen Esther's first, or primary language and sometimes she may not quite get the point of something we find easy to understand...........mind you she does do extremely well with her English postings, I THINK that she also has postings in Spanish??.........certainly much better than I could even dream of doing in any other language
.....and you are certainly right True Tom when you said that Queen Esther posts very fine content..........I think that she must spend most of her waking hours on the internet to come up with so many relevant and good points in her posts.

Repetition is, when learning most things, is an advantage, (especially to us as JW's when studying God's Word). We in our imperfect state do tend to forget things and the Brothers kindly remind us of many of the important things, by repetition and we can be truly thankful for that.
Its like when we use a number of specific scriptures in the preaching work.........once we use have used them a quite a few times we tend to remember them.........even years later, we can generally call them to mind, if the need arises........and, this is why it is important to try to use scriptures in, for example in the segment "Teach the Truth" in our Christian Life and Ministry meetings........it enlarges our repertoire of scriptures.

I thought this was an interesting comment that I came across.

 
This Senator could add to that statement............these events are showing that even the Russian people are getting fed up with the hypocrisy of the their "upper echelon" 

The meaning of the Hebrew word "amen."
 

Queen Esther..........I must say I love your little black thunder clouds!!!!!!!
We could always let "the powers that be" Know what will happen next if the continue their harassment of Jehovah's people in Russia...........BOOM!!!!????

(Revelation 22:20)  “The one who bears witness of these things says, ‘Yes, I am coming quickly.’” “Amen! Come, Lord Jesus.”
 

How right you are, due to our inherited sin and imperfection, it is, unfortunately, a fact of life...........however the most important thing to do, after we stumble and/or fall, is to get straight back up again.........and carry on, on that road to the best life ever.

When I went down to post my letters at the local post office, I happened to see the postage stamp book on the counter and sitting on top of it were the A$2.95 International Economy Air Mail stamps. The Post Mistress asked, "What is going on? I have had numerous requests for these stamps this morning." She does know that I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses, because I do that Post Office when I do business territory.
I explained to her what was going on in the Russian Federation concerning our brothers, and how they are supposed to have freedom of religion, etc., she did not know anything about it............well she does now!!!
 

Wen doing my pre-study for the mid-week meeting the last verse of this weeks Bible reading seems to fit here rather well, I thought.
(Jeremiah 16:21)  “So I will make them know, At this time I will make them know my power and my might, And they will have to know that my name is Jehovah.”
 So! Watch out the powers that be.........not only in the Russian Federation, but, also, governmental authorities world wide!!!

"there will be sometime without electricity in the new system I guess ..."
That WILL be interesting............how will the young ones cope without their mobile phones and other electronic gadgets
e.g. some time ago I went into "Maccas" and their computers were down and when I paid for the order the young girl was trying to work out the change with a pencil and paper.........3 times she tried........3 times she was wrong.........the shift manager came over to ask me if there was anything wrong, I said no, just that I was intrigued that many young peoples abilities in maths and English are usually pretty poor..........however, I will say that most of our young ones are streets ahead..........all due to study of the Bible and of course their preparation and participation in meetings..........the education system in Australia......and I am guessing in many other parts of the Western world is a farce........ 

Maybe!!!!!...........if it isn't electronic??????

thank you for the comment. 
and this weeks wt study lesson .. says that
we should always learn from older who have experience in life .

 

On second thoughts, perhaps I should have said, ........let the Canadians keep it, where it belongs........in the ground.

They will know there is a nation in which every citizen cares deeply about every other citizen. They have never seen this before. They will not forget it, regardless of the outcome. Not to mention the encouragement it will bring our Russian brothers.