~A case was brought against Harvest Church because, the Prosecutor’s Office said, its premises were “equipped as classrooms with school desks and chairs [and] shelves with educational literature”. St Petersburg City Court ruled that the church was running an eksternat, an external/home schooling programme~
Who said I’m supporting this? On the other hand I see a legal, not theological problem there. They should have been licensed and meet specific standards to operate as an educational institution.
Each country has some stupid regulations.
I merely was pointing-out a contradiction in your statement.
The Kremlin’s persecution of non-Orthodox churches is actually quite wide spread. Rudeboy was only providing one particular example, with one particular pretext. Pentecostals, baptists, and other churches, are being persecuted in Russia. The same is occuring in Crimea, wherein Catholic Priests have been abducted, intimidated, released, and then charged with silly crimes.