
In the Tula and Kemerovo regions, attacks were attacked on the communities of Pentecostals. As the Center "Owl"reports , in Novomoskovsk, the Tula region on the evening of May 9, an unknown person broke a window in the building of the Church of Pentecostals "Source of Power".
The video surveillance camera recorded how a man went to the door of the church and stood there for a while. It is possible that he knocked on the door with his feet: the door was dirty. Then the stranger began to throw crushed stone into the window, which covered the path to the building. Having broken the glass, he retired. Believers filed an application with the police.
As noted, this is the first case of an attack on the Church of Pentecostals in Novomoskovsk.
Meanwhile, in Kuzbassian Kiselevsk on the afternoon of May 8, criminals robbed the prayer house of Pentecost and tried to set it on fire. As Pastor Andrei Sukhotin wrote on his FB page, from the building, where there were none of the believers at that moment, the electric guitar and the DVD player were abducted. The Kiselev community also announced the intention to contact the police.
“Owl” also reports numerous attacks on chapel houses, as well as the dwellings of Jehovah's Witnesses, committed after the decision of the Supreme Court on the ban on this faith in Russia. It is known about incidents in the same Novomoskovsk, as well as in Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Penza, the Moscow Region, the Rostov Region and the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
In particular, as Jehovah's Office of Witnesses in Russia, in the village of Lutsino, Odintsovo District, a drunken local resident who previously expressed this faith, threw Molotov’s cocktail into the house where the family of her adherents in the village of Lutzino, on April 30. As a result, two houses and a car burned. The criminal was detained.