Based upon that reasoning, since Christians can meet together in China, and they do evangelize, than there is freedom of religion for Christians to practice their faith unhindered there as well as Vietnam, Pakistan, etc. No doubt there are deluded or deceitful souls who would strive to defend that as well.
Another absurd attempt to deny the facts is that of asserting this is in order to prevent the spread of Western LGBTQ, despite the fact that evangelicals overall strongly oppose this. In addition is the vain attempt is restrict the prohibition of evangelism to that of disrupting social safety or intrusion upon the..personality of citizens, which is not that the law is restricted to, while such terms can easily to interpreted to apply to true conversion (Paul certainly saw his personality change, and disrupted social safety of citizens due to the reaction to his evangelism.
The activity of a religious association, aimed at disseminating information about its beliefs among people who are not participants (members, followers) in that religious association, with the purpose of involving these people as participants (members, followers). It is carried out directly by religious associations or by citizens and/or legal entities authorised by them, publicly, with the help of the media, the internet or other lawful means".[12]
Missionary activities may only be performed by authorized members of registered religious groups and organizations....Citizens are also required to report unauthorized religious activity to the government or face fines.[13]
Russia officially recognizes Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism as the country’s traditional religions. Evangelical Christians do not fit into one of these categories and are viewed as a dangerous sect. - https://www.christianaid.org/russia
I reached out to William Yoder, a Belarus-based writer on church affairs who has decades of on the ground experience working with Protestant communities in Eastern Europe and Russia, to get his opinion on the current state of affairs. In his view, “the Yarovaya Laws are putting a damper on the budding relationship between the Christian right in the US and the Orthodox in Russia ... by persecuting Protestants, the Russian state is making it considerably more difficult for American Christian conservatives to count themselves among Putin’s right-wing fellow travelers. - https://publicorthodoxy.org/2016/10/25/yarovaya-conservatives-traditional-values/
Missionary activity thus defined is allowed “without restriction” in buildings owned by the religious organization, and various other specially-designated places such as cemeteries, but (reasonably so) not in other religious associations’ property.
Missionary work is not allowed in residences. If there is one takeaway from the law, it should be this.
In other public situations, only the leader of the local religious association (or a designated alternate) is allowed to engage in missionary activities without a special permit – essentially, a legal declaration by the religious association that the carrier is authorized to perform missionary work. This requirement is notably targeted at Russian citizens, but a similar requirement is also required of foreign citizens. (It is my understanding that it is already the Church’s practice is to issue such declarations for missionaries.) Of particular note is the prohibition against missionary work intended to assist in the performance of “extremist activity.” This has been defined by recent legislation extremely broadly,...
One final provision clarifies that only religious services and rites, not missionary work, is allowed to be performed in people’s homes (by reference to the law governing religious meetings held outside of religious buildings). On the face of it, this suggests that anointing for the sick and afflicted is allowed in homes, and perhaps even holding Sacrament Meeting, but no missionary work. As a preventative measure, the provision also prevents the legal conversion of a residence into a religious space, meaning that you can’t just have someone in the branch register their apartment as a church and hold member lessons there. - https://motabredsquare.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/missionary-work-after-the-yarovaya-laws-part-ii-legal-analysis/
n July 6, 2016, Russia passed the “Yarovaya Law,” a package of anti-terrorism amendments to legislation, sections No. 374-FZ and 375-FZ. While it was presented as a way to help combat terrorist activity, and those it deems “extremist,” others refer to it as the “anti-missionary” law.
The legislation requires religious groups and missionaries to obtain government permission to operate and restricts ministry activity of non-registered churches – which mostly include evangelicals and religious minorities. Some of its measures didn’t go into effect until 2018. Among those measures, the government was given access to all data from phone calls, text messages, and other forms of electronic communication.
But more than half of all cases of alleged violations, Christianity Today (CT) reported in 2019, have been against evangelicals. The Yarovaya laws, CT reported, ban Russians from inviting outsiders to join their faith, even online or in their own homes, unless they have a government permit through a registered religious organization. Even with that, they can only evangelize in designated churches and religious sites. - https://missioneurasia.org/yarovaya-law-vs-religious-freedom/
>REVEALING STATISTICS (or, Present Costs of the War Against God)
Yet true to form, some unreason-able Russian devotees sadly imagine that exposing the iniquity of Russian suppression of evangelicals - which the West seeks to do more of - means one is ignoring the positive aspects of Russia and the negative aspects of the West.
May all comes to Biblical evangelical conversion.