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Russian Jehovah's Witnesses get help from Norwegians

NORWEGIAN JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES TRY TO PREVENT CONFISCATION OF HOUSE OF WORSHIP

SOVA Center for News and Analysis, 13 February 2018

 

On 13 February it became known that a Norwegian organization of Jehovah's Witnesses turned to the city court of Petrozavodsk. The "Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of the Kingdom of Norway" had acquired a building on Pervomaisk Prospect in 1998 and donated it in 2007 to Russian Jehovah's Witnesses, who transferred it to Finnish fellow believers in 2017.

 

The Norwegian organization insists that if the donation agreement of 2017 were to be ruled invalid, then the donation agreement of 1998 (sic—2007?) also should be found to be invalid, and that means that the Norwegian organization again becomes the owner of the building. The court admitted the "Watchtower Bible and Tract Society" of Norway to participation in the trial in the capacity of a third person. (tr. by PDS, posted 13 February 2018)

 
Background article:

Jehovah's Witnesses try to shield property against confiscation
February 6, 2018


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