Arrests were carried out earlier this month, following previous raids in Moscow and Krasnodar.
From the World
Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan Leaders Sentenced for Death Threats Against Geert Wilders
Saad Husain Rizvi and Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali were sentenced to four and fourteen years in jail respectively by the District Court of The Hague.
St. Petersburg Court Finds an “Anti-Russian Conspiracy” in LaVey’s “The Satanic Bible”
The judges accepted the bizarre theory that the book promotes hostility to Russia, in addition to LGBT activism and extremism.
The Long Arm of France: Why MISA’s Mihai and Adina Stoian Have Been Arrested in Georgia
The two leaders of the movement founded by Gregorian Bivolaru are threatened with “life imprisonment” for the pseudo-crime of “psychological subjugation.”
Who Are The “Two-by-Twos”?
As members of the secretive movement are in the news accused of sexual abuse, we publish a translation of an encyclopedia entry by the late Italian scholar PierLuigi Zoccatelli, clarifying who they are.
Costa Rica: Constitutional Court Orders Removed Crucifix to Be Reinstalled in Public Hospital
The Director of Hospital México had removed the image in the name of religious freedom of non-Catholics. A nurse sued him and won.
Uganda vs Religious Liberty: An Interview with Scott Morgan
Using as a pretext the “fasting sect” incident in Kenya, with French and Japanese influences, several African countries are cracking down on religious minorities. Now, it’s Uganda.
Norway. Unlike the Innocent Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Russian Orthodox Church Is Not Deregistered: Why?
Concern also mounts about the Russian Orthodox Church’s increasing purchase of properties near military sites in Norway, which poses security issues.
Japan, Leading Magazine Exposes the Conspiracy Against a School with Unification Church Connections in Senegal
The influential “Weekly Shincho” revealed the political reasons of what it called a “crude and childish” attempt to appease the Communist Party.
Guru Jára: The End of a Legal Saga
Czech judges finally ruled, defeating a stubborn prosecutor, that Jára and his co-worker Barbora Plášková should be freed from jail.