{"id":6842,"date":"2008-05-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/24\/russian-region-considers-anti-missionary-bill\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T12:00:00","slug":"russian-region-considers-anti-missionary-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/24\/russian-region-considers-anti-missionary-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Region Considers Anti-Missionary Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.fsumonitor.com\/stories\/052208Russia.shtml\">www.fsumonitor.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">PENZA, RUSSIA, May 22, 2008: A bill in the parliament of the Penza region in Russia envisions increasing government control over proselytizing in the region. According to a May 20, 2008, report by the Interfax news agency, missionaries would need documents declaring their missionary status issued by officially registered religious organizations. Missionary activity can take place only in religious buildings owned by the missionary&#8217;s confession, inside residential buildings only with the consent of other residents, or at outdoor events that have been approved by local government agencies. Only people who have voluntarily agreed to be present at missionary events can be proselytized, and children need to have written permission from their parents in order to attend. Missionaries from outside the region have to present to the local authorities documents proving their membership in a registered religious organization, passport information, information about the purpose of the visit and the amount of time the missionary will be present in the region, a copy of an invitation issued by a locally registered religious organization (if such an invitation has been issued), and a schedule of planned activities while in the region. Foreign citizens who arrive in the region with tourist or other kinds of visas other than a missionary visa are not allowed to proselytize. Violations of these regulations could lead to a fine. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.fsumonitor.com PENZA, RUSSIA, May 22, 2008: A bill in the parliament of the Penza region in Russia envisions increasing government,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}