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[cobaltbluetony]

WIVES OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA SEND LETTER TO PUTIN ADVISER BEGGING FOR AN END TO CAMPAIGN OF TERROR

 

In return for freedom and a quiet life, we are being invited to disown our faith. This is not just a figure of speech—investigators have directly invited us to sign documents in order to avoid punishment for 'extremism'...

 

I wonder if the branch — er, um ...

I wonder if they decided to do this on their own, or the fellowship recommended it first.

[Thesauron]

WIVES OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA SEND LETTER TO PUTIN ADVISER BEGGING FOR AN END TO CAMPAIGN OF TERROR
 
In return for freedom and a quiet life, we are being invited to disown our faith. This is not just a figure of speech—investigators have directly invited us to sign documents in order to avoid punishment for 'extremism'...
 
I wonder if the branch — er, um ...
I wonder if they decided to do this on their own, or the fellowship recommended it first.

What fellowship would have recommended what?

[Tortuga]

https://www.jw-russia.org/news/18060718-345.html

 

Here is the letter in English

https://www.jw-russia.org/sites/default/files/openletter_to_pchr_and_fedotov_en5064.pdf

Edited June 8, 2018 by Tortuga

[cobaltbluetony]

1 hour ago, Thesauron said:

What fellowship would have recommended what?

Sorry, I don't talk about illegal operations in public.

[Tortuga]

There are several good questions in the letter, I hope it gets a lot of publicity.

 

We cannot find the answers to the questions of why we are being subjected to such harassment in our country, and which religion will be the next to fall victim after us?

 

The aforementioned decision of the Supreme Court did not ban the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia. It only involved legal entities. So why are the law-enforcement agents acting in contravention of the will of the government of our country?

[trottigy]

3 hours ago, cobaltbluetony said:

Sorry, I don't talk about illegal operations in public.

Yes, it's always best to discuss illegal things in secret.   

 

edit: wait - didn't you start this topic?

 

Edited June 8, 2018 by trottigy

[Shawnster]

6 hours ago, cobaltbluetony said:

WIVES OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA SEND LETTER TO PUTIN ADVISER BEGGING FOR AN END TO CAMPAIGN OF TERROR

 

In return for freedom and a quiet life, we are being invited to disown our faith. This is not just a figure of speech—investigators have directly invited us to sign documents in order to avoid punishment for 'extremism'...

 

I wonder if the branch — er, um ...

I wonder if they decided to do this on their own, or the fellowship recommended it first.

The term fellowship sounds odd to English speaking Witness.  At least it seems odd to me. We don't typically use that term. 

[Musky]

The term fellowship sounds odd to English speaking Witness.  At least it seems odd to me. We don't typically use that term. 

Just add a "dis" to the beginning of the word and we use it all the time.

[Shawnster]

True

[New World Explorer]

8 hours ago, cobaltbluetony said:

investigators have directly invited us to sign documents in order to avoid punishment for 'extremism'...

Nazis tried this method before

It did not go well for them... Witnesses survived (as group)  Nazis got destroyed.

Satan does not learn from history?

[Cushi]

3 hours ago, Gregexplore said:

Nazis tried this method before

It did not go well for them... Witnesses survived (as group)  Nazis got destroyed.

Satan does not learn from history?

That’s because he’s insane. He keeps doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

[Brother_Bliss]

It's a test for our brothers and sisters their. As a worldwide fellowship, may we continually pray that they may maintain their integrity.

[cobaltbluetony]

On 6/8/2018 at 3:51 PM, Shawnster said:

The term fellowship sounds odd to English speaking Witness.  At least it seems odd to me. We don't typically use that term. 

I was deliberately trying to use an "off" word, so as to figuratively throw off any spying eyes. 😉

[Pjdriver]

Wow....we’ve got em confused now! 🤔

Edited June 10, 2018 by Pjdriver

[Thomas Walker]

On 6/9/2018 at 8:22 AM, Gregexplore said:

Nazis tried this method before

It did not go well for them... Witnesses survived (as group)  Nazis got destroyed.

Satan does not learn from history?

 

Satan has no loyalty to any particular government either. So one is destroyed? Fine, there's a million more where that came from. From his perspective, he's winning. There are people suffering, and there are billions more not caring. It's 2018. The number of people who hate everything has increased by two or three billion since WW2. More and more numbers, stacking up against JW's. From Satan's perspective, it's a tactic that just keeps working.