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Court calls off tormentors of Pentecostal church in Naberezhnye Chelny

PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE FAILS TO LIQUIDATE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH

SOVA Center for News and Analysis, 16 January 2018

 

A court in Naberezhnye Chelny did not want to review a lawsuit from the prosecutor's office requesting a ruling that the "Dom Evangeliia" ["House of the Gospel"] Church of Pentecostals had terminated its activity because of the fact that at the time of a visit of the building by personnel of the prosecutor's office there was nobody there.

 

On 15 January 2018, the Naberezhnye Chelny city court left without consideration a lawsuit of the city prosecutor's office requesting a ruling that the local religious organization of the "Dom Evangeliia" Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith had terminated its activity and an order to remove it from the Uniform State Register of Legal Entities.

 

The prosecutor's office came to the conclusion about terminating the activity of the religious organization after on a week day, 23 October 2017, personnel of the prosecutor's office came to the church's building and found a lock on the doors.

 

The court noted that the suit for terminating the activity of a religious organization (and not a group) must be submitted not by a city prosecutor's office but by the prosecutor's office of a constituent entity [subject] of the federation. On this basis, it was decided to reject the lawsuit of the Naberezhnye Chelny prosecutor's office.

 

The interests of the church were represented by advocate Inna Zagrevina.

 

Earlier a court had prohibited the use of a temporary building of the church.

(tr. by PDS, posted 17 January 2018)


Background article:

Government officials harass Pentecostals in Tatar region, among others

December 5, 2017


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