From the aforementioned report on international religious freedom, comes an example of the efficacy of divesting the corporation from the worshipping body and/or denying the JW's religious nature in order to ease operations:
"Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Roman Catholics have stated that the GOC [
ed.: Georgian Orthodox Church] Patriarchate has often acted to prevent them from acquiring, building, or reclaiming places of worship. The Patriarchate has also reportedly denied permission for Pentecostals, the Salvation Army, and the True Orthodox Church to print some religious literature in Georgia, although Assyrian Chaldean Catholics, Baptists, Roman Catholics, and Yezidis (an ancient religion with a majority of ethnic Kurdish adherents) have not reported difficulties in this regard.
An affiliate organization of the Jehovah’s Witnesses has been allowed to register as a civic association, which should ease problems with regard to the import of religious literature."
And again... in Russia:
In one case, a local official reportedly warned that non-traditional religions are used by foreign organizations to undermine the country’s security, grouping together Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the True Orthodox Church, and the New Apostle Church with such groups as Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese group notorious for the subway gas attack in Tokyo, and Satanists.
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