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Moscow Baptists opposed the upcoming “anti-missionary” amendments
Representatives of the Moscow Church of the ECB appealed to the authorities with a request to prevent the adoption of amendments to the law “On freedom of conscience and religious associations” restricting missionary activity. believers point to the contradiction of this bill with the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
May 22, 2016 representatives of the Moscow Church Evangelical Christian Baptists were sent to President Vladimir Putin, Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Alexander Konovalov and Chairman of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin appeal in connection with the forthcoming amendments to the law “On freedom of conscience and religious associations.
According to the authors of the appeal signed by 92 person, proposed by Senator Igor Chernyshenko, the bill "enters into contradiction with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, as well as with the provisions of the current Law "On freedom of conscience and religious associations” and “tough and resolute crosses out the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the Russian Federation, prohibiting citizens from spreading their faith both individually and collectively and retaining this right only for religious organizations .
If this bill is passed, believers believe, “there will be conditions have been created for the repression of all Christians. Any person who has spoken another about faith in God, can be accused of illegal missionary activity" .
Referring to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Bible, the authors of the appeal petition for the preservation of the right of Russian citizens to the free exercise of faith and dissemination of their religious beliefs.
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