2009 International Conventions 
Length: 5 minutes
Jehovah’s Witnesses from around the globe attended the 2009 “Keep on the Watch!” International Conventions held in 33 major cities in 16 different lands. Interviews with the delegates provide a compelling look at these gatherings and at the Witnesses themselves.
Confiscation of religious property in Russia begins
On March 1, 2010, law enforcement officers closed down and sealed the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the city of Taganrog, Rostov Region.
Serbia registers Jehovah’s Witnesses
The Serbian Ministry of Religious Affairs has registered “Jehovah’s Witnesses Christian Religious Community.” This development means that the Witnesses are now legally recognized as a church or religious community in all the countries that surround Serbia and in all the European Union member countries.
Also in Serbian, Russian
Jehovah’s Witnesses address their fellow citizens
On February 26-28, 2010, throughout Russia, from the Chukchi Peninsula in the east to Kaliningrad in the west, a special campaign is taking place. For these three days, tens of thousands of Russian Jehovah’s Witnesses are offering their fellow citizens a tract entitled Could It Happen Again? A Question for the Citizens of Russia. Twelve million tracts will be distributed.
Also in Russian
Young Belarusian must pay for his faith
A court in Belarus fines citizen for exercising his legal right to alternative service.
Also in Russian
Amnesty for convicted Bible teacher
In Uzbekistan, Lyudmila Nikolskaya, a 55-year-old mother and pensioner, was granted amnesty.
TAJIKISTAN:
Jehovah’s Witnesses appeal to the Supreme Court of Tajikistan
Also in Russian
PUERTO RICO:
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico upholds patient’s medical rights
RUSSIA:
Another court ruling signals deteriorating freedoms in Russia
Also in Russian
Global Bible Education
We are probably best known for our person-to-person ministry. Each congregation tries to reach all the people in its neighborhood with a brief Bible message. This is usually done by Witnesses visiting from door to door. We will also talk to people on the streets, in parks and in other public places—wherever someone can be found who has a spiritual interest and a few minutes to talk. This approach is the same as that used by Jesus Christ and his apostles. The apostle Paul, for example, said, “I did not hold back . . . from teaching you publicly and from house to house.”—Acts 20:20.
