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@Kurt I posted this under Russia yesterday. Check it out? Agape ???

"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Rom. 3:23) ??? All people need to know about Jesus and put faith in him. In the book of Romans, Paul addressed this need. Early on, he wrote of “God, to whom I render sacred service with my spirit in connection with the good news about his Son.” He added: “I am not ashamed of the good news; it is, in fact, God’s power for salvation to everyone having faith.” ??? Later he referred to the time “when God through Christ Jesus judges the secret things of mankind, according to the good news I declare.” And he related: “From Jerusalem and in a circuit as far as Illyricum I have thoroughly preached the good news about the Christ.”* (Rom. 1:9, 16; 2:16;15:19)

"He did on a grand scale what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah." (2 Chron. 33:6) "Ma·nasʹseh was 12 years old when he became king, and he reigned for 55 years in Jerusalem. 2 "He did what was bad in Jehovah’s eyes, following the detestable practices of the nations that Jehovah had driven out from before the people of Israel. 3 "He rebuilt the high places that his father Hez·e·kiʹah had torn down, he set up altars to the Baʹals and made sacred poles, and he bowed down to all the army of the heavens and served them. 4 "He also built altars in the house of Jehovah, about which Jehovah had said: “In Jerusalem my name will be forever.” 5 "And he built altars to all the army of the heavens in two courtyards of the house of Jehovah." 6 And he made his own sons pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinʹnom; he practiced magic, used divination, practiced sorcery, and appointed spirit mediums and fortune-tellers. He did on a grand scale what was bad in Jehovah’s eyes, to offend him. 7 "He put the carved image that he made into the house of the true God about which God had said to David and to his son Solʹo·mon: “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will permanently put my name." 8 "And I will never again remove the feet of Israel from the land that I assigned to their forefathers, provided they carefully observe all that I have commanded them, the entire Law, the regulations and the judicial decisions given through Moses.” 9 Ma·nasʹseh kept leading Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, causing them to do worse than the nations that Jehovah had annihilated from before the Israelites. 10 "Jehovah kept speaking to Ma·nasʹseh and his people, but they paid no attention." 11 So Jehovah brought against them the army chiefs of the king of As·syrʹi·a, and they captured Ma·nasʹseh with hooks and bound him with two copper fetters and took him to Babylon. 12 "In his distress, he begged Jehovah his God for favor and kept humbling himself greatly before the God of his forefathers. 13 He kept praying to Him, and He was moved by his entreaty and heard his request for favor, and He restored him to Jerusalem to his kingship. Then Ma·nasʹseh came to know that Jehovah is the true God." (2 Chron.33:1-13).

Yes we knew that already. Good thought though!

I did under Russia

#Repost @won_seung_jae ・・・ ?기쁨으로여호와께노래하는작은음악회?? ?The Best Life Ever?A small concert singing to Jehovah with joy?#jwworld #jwkorean #jwwitness #jworg #jwonly #jwlove #jwhappy #jwfamily#jwservice#jwJehovah#jwpeople#jw#jwsinging#jwsong#singtojehovah#jwkorea#jwmusic Sing ? to Jehovah! Moving picture IMG_4818.mov

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Even if we "lose" we WIN! Thank you Jehovah God! ???????

Sing ? to Jehovah! ?#Repost @won_seung_jae ・・・ ?기쁨으로여호와께노래하는작은음악회? ?봉담서부회중#24 Keep Your Eyes on the Prize!?Elementary school girls with mam.??? sign language to show in Bongdam West Congregational ?A small concert singing to Jehovah with joy?#jwworld#jwkorean#jwwitness#jworg#jwonly#jwlove#jwhappy#jwfamily#jwservice#jwJehovah#jwpeople#jw#jwsinging#jwsong#singtojehovah#jwkorea#jwmusic Moving picture Enjoy! ??? IMG_4810.mov

MOSCOW – Tens of thousands of protesters have thronged Moscow this weekend to protest against a ban of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the country. Organizers claimed over 150,000 people took part in the Moscow protest, which would make it the biggest since the collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago. This outnumbers the number of people who protested against Vladimir Putin in December 2011. Protesters try to break through a cordon during a demonstration against Jehovah’s Witnesses ban On April 20, Russia’s Supreme Court declared Jehovah’s Witnesses to be an extremist organization and outlawed its activity throughout Russia, thereby upholding the Justice Ministry’s requests. The court declared the immediate shutdown of all 395 local chapters of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia and transferred the organization’s assets into state custody. Jehovah’s Witnesses said it would appeal the decision. According to the protesters, they are Christians from various denominations and they “could not look on as rights to worship of other denomination is infringed upon”. One protester told the press that “this ban would gradually eats into other Christian denominations”. No member Jehovah’s Witness took part in the protest. Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky court weeks ago rejected a lawsuit filed by the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group against the Justice Ministry’s ruling on banning its activity in Russia, a TASS correspondent reported from the courtroom. The organization asked the court to recognize the Justice Ministry’s ruling as illegal and order its cancellation. “The court decided to reject the lawsuit of the religious organization “Jehovah’s Witnesses Administrative Center in Russia,” Judge Nelli Rubtsova said. In its lawsuit, the Justice Ministry pointed to various violations by the organization’s activities revealed during a surprise inspection, including of the Law on Counteracting Extremist Activities. On October 12, 2016, Moscow’s Tverskoy district court issued a warning to the Jehovah’s Witnesses Administrative Center based on revelations of extremism there. Under Russian law, a religious association or organization is subject to termination if it does not remedy the specified manifestations of extremism before the required deadline or displays any new ones. Jehovah’s Witnesses is an international religious organization that supports offbeat views on the essence of the Christian faith and provides special interpretations of many commonly accepted notions. http://ab.cnewsgo.com/christians-in-russia-protest-against-jehovahs-witnesses-ban/

A Satanic religious group has been operating in Russia as an officially recognized church for the past year, according to the news website 66.ru. What's more, the Satanists are using their one-year anniversary to declare opposition to religious extremism. The Satanic Church of Russia received legal recognition on May 10, 2016 — a date they subsequently declared “the day of Russian Satanism,” 66.ru reported. In an interview with the news site, church leader Oleg Sataninsky expressed his organization's support for the controversial Yarovaya Laws, which widen the Russian legal concept of extremism and place restrictions on missionary work. Last month, Russia banned the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group under the legislation. “We consider it necessary to speak out against missionary activity” Sataninsky said. “The Jehovah's Witnesses had an extreme approach. We oppose indoctrination and religious propaganda.” The Satanic Church of Russia has existed since 2013, but decided last year to register as a religious association, “rather than risk being labelled a totalitarian sect and banned by the state,” Sataninsky said. The group insists it does not follow the standard clichés associated with Satanism: sacrificial animal slaughter and black magic rituals. Sataninsky also argues that Satanism is not devil-worship. Devil-worshippers, he said, “are a form of anti-Christians,” while Satanists follow Anton Sandor's 1969 “Satanic Bible.” At press time, The Moscow Times could not confirm whether Sataninsky was the Satanic Church leader's true surname. https://themoscowtimes.com/news/official-russian-satanist-church-declares-opposition-to-religious-extremism-57977

http://www.newsweek.com/jehovahs-witnesses-russia-ban-satanic-church-608334 Russia’s Supreme Court banned all activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the country last month under its anti-extremism law. Yet at the same time, the Satanic Church of Russia is celebrating its one-year anniversary as an officially recognized religion in Russia. And it did so by cheering the action taken against Jehovah’s Witnesses. “We consider it necessary to speak out against missionary activity,” Satanic Church leader Oleg Sataninsky told Russian news site 66.ru as reported by The Moscow Times. “The Jehovah's Witnesses had an extreme approach. We oppose indoctrination and religious propaganda." Sataninsky, whose true surname has not been verified, said that the church had existed in Russia but decided to register last May to avoid being labeled a “totalitarian sect” and to show authorities that they were not extremist. He insists that followers of the church are not devil worshippers and do not engage in the types of bloody rituals and sacrifices commonly found in movie depictions. Instead, Sataninsky said, they follow TheSatanic Bible, which was published by American Anton LaVey, considered the founder of the global Church of Satan, in 1969. It is just fine that they are legal while Jehovah’s Witnesses are banned, he added, because the Satanic Church does not engage in “rabid propaganda.” Russia’s anti-extremism law came into effect in 2002, following Russia’s second war in Chechnya and the 9/11 attacks in the United States. It was followed last year by a set of measures named the Yarovaya Law. Although they were said to be aimed at combatting terrorism, critics alleged that they constituted an attack on freedom of speech and conscience. Specifically, they banned proselytizing, preaching and praying outside of “specifically designated places,” like officially recognized religions. Religious Breakdown of Russia Over Time Only religious populations greater than or equal to one percent are included. Values exceed one hundred percent if the country practices dualism. Report as of 2010. Eastern OrthodoxNo ReligionOther IslamSunniOtherOther JudaismProtestantismCatholicismOther Buddhism Percent 1960 1980 2000 0 20 40 60 80 100 Source: ARDA. Show details Jehovah’s Witnesses, who number 175,000 members in Russia, were warned last March that their activities constituted extremism. A year later, the justice ministry made the decree official, a decision that was upheld by the Supreme Court, liquidating all 395 branches in the country and banning all gatherings. The move was widely condemned in Europe and the United States, with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom stating that it represented “paranoia” on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The commission also elevated Russia to the highest level of religious freedom abusers in its annual report last month. Jehovah’s Witnesses have said that they will appeal the decision although they admit there is little prospect of it being overturned.

23 "Above all the things that you guard, safeguard your heart, For out of it are the sources of life." (Proverbs 4:23) ??? JEHOVAH told the prophet Samuel: “Not the way man sees is the way God sees, because mere man sees what appears to the eyes; but as for Jehovah, he sees what the heart is.” (1 Samuel 16:7) ??? Also focusing attention on the figurative heart, the psalmist David sang: “You [Jehovah] have examined my heart, you have made inspection by night, you have refined me; you will discover that I have not schemed.”—Psalm 17:3. ??? Yes, Jehovah looks into the heart to determine what we truly are. (Proverbs 17:3) ??? “Listen, O sons, to the discipline of a father and pay attention, so as to know understanding. For good instruction is what I certainly shall give to you. My law do not leave.”—Proverbs 4:1, 2. 2 pictures 1 GIF 1 Moving IMG_4769.mov

26 "But the helper, the holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name, that one will teach you all things and bring back to your minds all the things I told you." (John 14:26) "Just as the Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister and to give his life as a ransom in exchange for many.” (Matthew 20:28)

"There is . . . a time to keep quiet and a time to speak."—Eccl. 3:1, 7. “If my husband is overwhelmed with work or other responsibilities, I let a little time pass before I raise certain matters. Our conversations are much smoother as a result.”

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RUSSIA House Torched As 'Acts Of Vandalism' Target Jehovah's Witnesses In Russia May 11, 2017 15:30 GMT Tom Balmforth The Jehovah's Witnesses administrative center in Moscow has ceased its activities in the wake of a Russian Supreme Court ruling that branded the group as extremist. (file photo) MOSCOW -- A home inhabited by Jehovah's Witnesses outside Moscow was destroyed in an arson attack, the religious organization said, citing it as the starkest example of a string of "acts of vandalism" targeting the group since it was branded as extremist by the Russian Supreme Court. An inebriated resident of the village of Lutsino in Moscow Region on April 30 threw a bottle containing burning liquid at a home and garage, destroying the building as well as cars belonging to a family of Jehovah's Witnesses, the group said in a statement on its website on May 8. The attacker had made disparaging comments about the Jehovah's Witnesses before the attack, the group said. Yaroslav Sivulsky, a spokesman for Russia's Jehovah's Witnesses, told RFE/RL on May 11 that the worshipers were at home at the time of attack, although no one was hurt. Sivulsky said the attacker made no attempt to hide afterwards and was detained by police. He later blamed his actions on alcohol. Sivulsky said the attack exemplified a spate of "acts of vandalism" that have targeted the Christian denomination since the court ruling last month. On April 20, the Supreme Court labeled the Jehovah's Witnesses an extremist organization, ordering the seizure of the group's property in Russia and effectively banning worshipers from the country. The United States and European Union have denounced the court ruling, and Human Rights Watch (HRW) called it "a terrible blow to freedom of religion and association in Russia." The Jehovah's Witnesses have long been viewed with suspicion in Russia for their positions on military service, voting, and government authority in general. Freedom of religion is formally guaranteed in Russia but legislation sets out Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism as the country's four traditional religions, and rights activists say others frequently face discrimination. In Media Crosshairs The court ruling has put the group's worshipers in the crosshairs of state-run and Kremlin-loyal media outlets, which have portrayed the group as a pernicious sect that destroys families and threatens lives through their stance on blood transfusions. Sikulsky pointed to a string of alleged cases of intimidation and vandalism listed on the group's website alongside photographs. Several hours after the Supreme Court ruling, a group of men threw bricks and stones at the Jehovah's Witnesses' headquarters in St. Petersburg, smashing windows. On the night of April 30, in the city of Achinsk in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk, a local resident allegedly smashed a window of a place of worship of the Jehovah's Witnesses. On May 2, in the Kaliningrad region on the Baltic Sea, a window of the home of a family of Jehovah's Witnesses was broken when a rock was thrown at it. On May 5, in Novomoskovsk in Tula Oblast, the door of a building formerly used by Jehovah's Witnesses was defaced with the threatening message: "Friends, soon we're coming for you all." The group's main administrative center has stopped its activities in line with the demands of the Supreme Court. The court ruling, however, has not yet fully entered into force -- the Jehovah's Witnesses' property has not yet been seized by the state, for instance -- as the group has until May 20 to file an appeal to the court. Sivulsky said he believes there is "practically no chance" they will be successful in their appeal https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rferl.org/amp/28480772.html.

https://www.jw-russia.org/news/17050817-158.html

@James Thomas Rook Jr. @Eoin Joyce For Jehovah's will to be done, all that has to be is HIS NAME KNOWN. YES, ONLY 175,000 people taking a stand for Jehovah God make international news. We have people backing us that KNOW RUSSIA IS WRONG! But who cares? Jehovah God and soon just like Pharaoh and Nebuchadrezzar they will learn till they are destroyed! Please read Psalms chapter 2 only small verses I think 12. They will lick ? the dust! No interpreter needed! ????⚔️???

@Carol Ann Torres Thank you for liking! Jehovah Bless you! ?????

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The Above-mentioned burning of the home of some witnesses in Moscow, Russia by an incendiary bomb. Picture posted Tuesday May 9, 2017.