JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES LEAVE THEIR BOOKS
AT
"BOOKCROSSING" NEAR TULA KREMLIN
According to information from the news
agency Tulskie
Novosti, a few days ago extremist literature of the Jehovah's
Witnesses was
discovered at the "Bookcrossing" site near the Tula Kremlin.
More
than 10 forbidden publications of this organization had been
left at the book
exchange site.
The press service of the evangelism
department of the
Tula diocese commented on what happened:
"Volunteers of the evangelism
department of the
Tula diocese regularly conduct raids to check on the contents of
the book
boxes. And with enviable regularity they discover there
publications whose
circulation on the territory of Russia is illegal. To become
convinced of this
is not hard: in accordance with article 13 of the federal law
'On combating
extremist activity,' the Russian Ministry of Justice publishes
and posts on the
Internet the Federal List of Extremist Materials."
The last "catch" by the Tula Orthodox
volunteers confirms that the Jehovists continue their illegal
activity. As
Aleksei Yarasov, the deputy director of the evangelism
department, explained,
among the books whose circulation is prohibited by the Russian
Ministry of
Justice, more than a dozen publications of the Jehovah's
Witnesses sect were
found, and there also are publications of other religious
organizations, but in
a lesser amount.
Aleksei Yarosov noted: "It turns out
that people
know quite well that they are violating the law of the Russian
federation, but
they do not abandon their goals—to lure our fellow citizens into
the sect. And
here this Jehovist pamphlet 'The end of false religion is near,'
which slanders
the ministers of traditional religions, ha been forbidden in our
country since
2009. Since it is difficult to tear hard covers off of books,
the sectarians
use different methods of 'camouflage': they crudely rip out the
interior pages
with publishing data." Several of the forbidden brochures are
missing covers
for the same reason. It was simply torn off roughly.
Volunteer Sergei Kuprin explained that he and friends discovered in Kremlin Square a whole collection of resources of the Jehovah's Witnesses sect from the division (congregation) of this sect that is located in the Proletarsky district of the city of Tula, which can be learned from the signature: they simply forgot to erase it. Since all these publications have long been in the category of extremist, one cannot find them in the possession of the sectarians themselves, and here they have decided to distribute them in this way: they offer them to our fellow citizens for reading, for people of various ages, including youth. (tr. by PDS, posted 28 July 2016)
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