CHELYABINSK
RESIDENT
PUNISHED FOR ILLEGAL MISSIONARY ACTIVITY
Prosecutor's
Office, Chelyabinsk, 21 December 2017
On
the basis of
information from the chief directorate of the Ministry of
Internal Affairs of
Russia for Chelyabinsk province, the prosecutor's office of the
Traktorozavod
district of the city of Chelyabinsk conducted an inspection
regarding the
conduct of illegal missionary activity by the destructive occult
religious
organization "Temple of the Violet Flame" which is led by a
woman
resident of Chelyabinsk.
It
was
established that meetings of the religious organization were
conducted in the
nonresidential premises located at 35 Heroes of Tankograd St.
with the purpose
of confessing and spreading the faith of the "Ascension of the
Master
Keeper of the Violet Flame."
In
the
aforementioned premises, missionary activity was conducted
consisting of the
dissemination of information about its doctrine among citizens.
An
investigation of the premises established there were religious
paraphernalia
and literature there.
From
the
explanations of a local resident who organized the religious
group, it follows
that she is an adherent of the religious teaching, which was
founded in 1956 by
Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet in the U.S.A. This teaching
combines several
religions whose sacred books are the Bible and the Teaching of
the Ascended
Masters.
The
religious
group is not registered in the directorate of the Ministry of
Justice of Russia
for Chelyabinsk province and it did not provide notification
about its activity
on the territory of the Traktorozavod district of Chelyabinsk,
and a decision
of a general meeting of the religious group providing them the
appropriate
authorization does not exist.
Thus
the
activity of the religious group has been conducted in violation
of the
requirements of the federal law "On freedom of conscience and
religious
associations," that is, without notification in written form of
the launch
of activity of a religious group given to an agency authorized
to make a
decision about state registration of a religious organization in
the place
where the activity of the religious group is conducted.
By decision of a magistrate judge, the person who organized the activity of the religious group was held administratively accountable on the basis of part 4 of article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Violations of Law of the RF (conducting missionary activity in violation of the requirements of legislation on freedom of conscience and freedom of religious confession and on religious associations), and was assigned a penalty in the form of a fine of 5,000 rubles. (tr. by PDS, posted 21 December 2017)
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