“Russian court bans Jehovah’s Witnesses as extremist group”

Last updated on: April 20, 2017 at 5:05 pm   by
“Russian court bans Jehovah’s Witnesses as extremist group” 2017-04-20T17:05:48-06:00

 

The Moscow Kremlin at night, on the river
The Kremlin in Moscow (Wikimedia Commons public domain)

 

 

This is very bad news for religious freedom, and perhaps a threatening harbinger of things yet to come:

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/04/20/russian-court-bans-jehovahs-witnesses-extremist-group/100701524/

 

Thanks to Marc Norton for alerting me to the news item.

 

Posted from Park City, Utah

 

 

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