The Watchtower Society in Siberia

https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-court-jails-mother-and-son-jehovah-s-witnesses/31120167.html

The US-affiliated RFERL just wants to take shots at Moscow and as such their coverage is disingenuous. It's merely part of a large coordinated campaign to paint Russia in a negative light. In truth, the US Establishment hates Jehovah's Witnesses and doesn't care about them but in this case it's good to remember what's happening in Russia.

Evangelicals are facing bureaucratic hardship but since 2017, the Watchtower folks are enduring outright persecution.

Why? Because sadly (it must be admitted) in this instance in terms of social ethics, the Jehovah's Witnesses (unlike most Evangelicals) are behaving and living like Christians, paying a price for it, and largely (it must be said) their response has also been commensurate with the Scriptures. They bear the cross and unlike the Evangelical movement they don't appeal to power or align themselves with it.

The ethic which once dominated the Early Church and Medieval Underground lives on today among the heretical Witnesses and some of the Anabaptist community. It's a sad state of affairs and it should drive us to our knees in grief and repentance.