Saturday, December 6, 2025

Jehova's Witnesses still under pressure in Georgia

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Jehova’s Witnesses praying in Khobi, Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Jehovah’s Witnesses in Georgia continue to be under pressure as another community denies the establishment of a prayer house.

This time, it is locals in Terjola, a town in Imereti, western Georgia, who refuse to allow another community

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Jehova's Witnesses accused of stoking separatism in Georgia

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Locals in Khobi, Georgia, accuse Jehova’s Witnesses of stoking separatism because they are using the minority language Megrelian. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Friday, about 100 Orthodox Christians demonstrated in Georgia against Jehovah’s Witnesses constructing a congregation center in their town.

The Witnesses began building a Kingdom Hall in the western town of Khobi about a week ago. Today, opponents were

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January 1 not the first attack on Jehova's Witnesses in Ozurgeti

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Giorgi Arbolishvili, spokesperson for Jehova’s Witnesses in Ozurgeti. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–When strangers attacked a car and a house where Jehova’s Witnesses are meeting in Ozurgeti, Georgia, on January 1, it was not the first such attack.

Two years ago, strangers broke the windows of Kingdom Hall in Ozurgeti. The perpetrators were

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New details may help find who attacked Jehova's Witnesses

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Police in Georgia have new information which may help in finding those who attacked a gathering of Jehova’s Witnesses in Ozurgeti on January 1, 2014. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–New details might help police find out who attacked Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ozurgeti two weeks ago.

In the attack, which took place on January 1, strangers broke the windows of a car the Witnesses were sitting in and threw stones at the building where

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Increasing discrimination of religious minorities in Georgia

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A Jehova’s Witnesses book stand on Freedom Square, Tbilisi. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A human rights group claims there has been an increase in discrimination of religious minorities in Georgia in 2013.

On November 15, Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Hall, located in Upper Etseri, Samegrelo, West Georgia, was shot at twice.

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