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<<No 57 : 3 August 1980>> ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS On 13 June the hieromonk Savva (Kolchugin?) was arrested at the Arzamas railway station. Over a year ago he was prevented from continuing his work as a priest in the church of the town Vetluga, Gorky Region, in November 1979 Savva was forcibly interned in one of … Continue reading Persecution of Believers, August 1980 (57.17)
<<No 54 : 15 November 1979>> Orthodox Christians On 12 September the members of the Christian Committee for the Defence of Believers’ Rights in the USSR (G. Yakunin. V. Kapitanchuk, V. Fonchenkov, together with L. Regelson) issued an appeal ‘To Russian Orthodox Christians in the Fatherland and in the Diaspora’. The authors of the appeal … Continue reading Persecution of Believers, Nov 1979 (54.19)
<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS In the Dobroye district of Lipetsk Region, 14 churches were destroyed after the Revolution. In 1974 believers began to ask that a church be opened in the village of B. Khomutets. The believers went more than once to see the district Soviet executive committee — refusals were … Continue reading Persecution of Believers, Aug 1979 (53.24)
<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> The Trial of Shelkov, Lepshin, Spalin, Furlet and Maslov (concluded) The entire activity of Shelkov, Spalin, Lepshin and the others was in open violation of the ‘Legislation on Religious Cults’. For example, they organized children’s meetings, which were often recorded on tape for later dissemination. Altogether nine tape-recordings of … Continue reading Trials of Adventists, Aug 1979 (53.3-2)
<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> [1] The Trial of Shelkov, Lepshin, Spalin, Furlet and Maslov On 12 March the Tashkent Regional Court, after a six-week break (CCE 52.11), resumed hearing the case of V. A. Shelkov (b. 1895), head of the All-Union Church of True and Free Seventh-Day Adventists (ACTFSDA) and his fellow-believers A. … Continue reading Trials of Adventists, March 1979 (53.3-1)
<<No 52 : 1 March 1979>> ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS On 10 January 1979 the Konakovo people’s court (Kalinin Region) sentenced Alexander Ogorodnikov (CCE 51) under Article 209 of the Russian Criminal Code (‘leading during a long time of a parasitic way of life’) to one year in ordinary-regime camps. An appeal by counsel E. A. Reznikova … Continue reading Persecution of Believers, March 1979 (52.11)
<<No 38 : 31 December 1975>> LITHUANIA In 1967 the publishing house ‘Mintis’ (‘Thought’) issued a pamphlet, ‘Dying They Fought’, edited by Vytautas Denas and published in Vilnius. One of its short articles contained a description of how the priest Vincentas Gelgota killed a man. In May 1968 Gelgota wrote a letter to Denas in … Continue reading The Persecution of Believers, Dec 1975 (38.17)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> In May and June 1977 Alexander Ogorodnikov (CCEs 41, 44) was receiving treatment in Moscow City Hospital No. 4. On 7 June Rimma Anatolyevna Semyonova, a section head, called him into the surgery for an examination. Immediately after this, Doctor Yelena Vasilyevna Polikarpova summoned the other patients in the … Continue reading Persecution of Religious Believers, Aug 1977 (46.8)
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