{"id":6966,"date":"2026-01-14T09:24:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/religious-freedom-challenges-for-jehovahs-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:24:03","slug":"religious-freedom-challenges-for-jehovahs-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/religious-freedom-challenges-for-jehovahs-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Freedom Challenges for Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Religious Freedom Challenges for Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses <\/h1>\n
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Four years after USCIRF\u2019s 2020 publication on the global persecution of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, countries continue to prosecute and impose harsh penalties on the community for their religious beliefs and peaceful religious activities. Hundreds of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses have been imprisoned under laws punishing so-called \u201cextremism\u201d and conscientious objection. Other countries prevent Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses from gaining legal recognition, deprive them of rights afforded to others, or impose prejudicial policies. States have a duty to protect freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Religious Freedom Challenges for Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses Four years after USCIRF\u2019s 2020 publication on the global persecution of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, countries continue to prosecute and impose harsh penalties on the community for their religious beliefs and peaceful religious activities. Hundreds of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses have been imprisoned under laws punishing so-called \u201cextremism\u201d and conscientious objection. Other countries prevent Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses from gaining…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99044,"featured_media":6967,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[935,766,1011,661,1012],"ground_category":[315,320],"class_list":["post-6966","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-challenges","tag-freedom","tag-jehovahs","tag-religious","tag-witnesses","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-5-time-martyrdom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-11\/Jehovah%27s%20Witnesses%20Issue%20Update.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/6966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/6966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}