LATEST NEWS FROM RUSSIA - The persecution against our own begins to fester. All identified Jehovah's Witnesses have frozen their checking accounts for the banks....

[Queen Esther]

LATEST NEWS FROM RUSSIA......

The persecution against our own begins to fester. All identified Jehovah's Witnesses have frozen their checking accounts for the banks.
The ruling seems to have emboldened the resentful and fearing witnesses, a religious minority who have suffered more than most in Russia from President Vladimir Putin, where the Russian Orthodox Church has the support of the state.
Says the spokesman for the Witnesses based at their world headquarters in New York. "But now the atmosphere is worse than ever."
"In a way the situation in Kazakhstan has deteriorated even faster," said Felix Corley, a Norwegian-based religious rights activist who edited the Forum 18 News Service, which tracks abuses in the former Soviet Union and Europe. East.
Recently, a popular TV station there reported that Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia planned an attack, and speculated that it could occur in Kazakhstan, said Bekzat Smagulov, a Jehovah's Witness and spokesman in the Ajmedov case.
"Most people are afraid," said Smagulov of 18,000 witnesses from Kazakhstan.

READ  MORE....

http://www.sltrib.com/home/5307270-155/since-russias-ban-persecution-of-jehovahs