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This article does not mention the seizure of church owned property, but I've seen tweets that do.
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This has to be concerning to the LDS church who obviously could be said to run afoul of that same law if a government was looking to pick up some free real estate. If property is actually seizable under such a ruling, I wonder what the value of LDS owned properties at risk might be.
Then there's also the fact that the JWs under this ruling must cease to operate on Russian soil. They are claiming a Russian membership of 170,000. I wonder what a similar ruling would mean to the LDS numbers wise. It seems they've invested significant resources there in the last 25 years
This article does not mention the seizure of church owned property, but I've seen tweets that do.
From the article:
Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday declared Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian denomination that rejects violence, an extremist organization, banning the group from operating on Russian territory and putting its more than 170,000 Russian worshipers in the same category as Islamic State militants.
The denomination suffered relentless persecution by the KGB during the Soviet era and, after more than a decade of relative peace following the collapse of Communism in 1991, it again became a target for official harassment under a 2002 anti-extremism law that makes it illegal for any group, other than the Orthodox Church and other traditional religious institutions, to proclaim itself as offering a true path to religious or political salvation.
Then there's also the fact that the JWs under this ruling must cease to operate on Russian soil. They are claiming a Russian membership of 170,000. I wonder what a similar ruling would mean to the LDS numbers wise. It seems they've invested significant resources there in the last 25 years
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