A Christian leader has been arrested in Russia for violating a new anti-terrorism law that bans evangelism outside of churches, the Christian Post website reports today (August 31, 2016).
Sergei Zhuravlyov, a representative of the Ukrainian Reformed Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior, was arrested earlier this month while he was preaching before the St. Petersburg Messianic Jewish community, and was charged with violating a provision of the law that bans illegal missionary activity.
He is being accused of "fomenting negative attitudes toward the Russian Orthodox Church," and having ties to the Ukrainian nationalist political party called Right Sector, which is banned in Russia.
Zhuravlyov has since been released on bail, and is awaiting a court trial.
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