{"id":27013,"date":"2026-09-22T11:46:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/?post_type=press&#038;p=27013"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:46:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:46:52","slug":"moves-against-missionary-threat-205","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/press\/moves-against-missionary-threat-205\/","title":{"rendered":"Moves against Missionary threat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian proposals for a new state policy on religion would give broad social access solely to those confessions deemed \u2018traditional&#8217; there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An earlier state policy on national security adopted shortly after Vladimir Putin became acting president last January refers to the need to \u2018counter the negative impact of foreign missionaries,&#8217; who, some state officials believe, are western agents bent on destabilising the nation and seizing control of Russia&#8217;s Far East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the Moscow municipal authorities recently refused to renew the legal status of the Salvation Army in the capital, a local court cited the church&#8217;s subordination to a foreign centre of authority among the grounds for the decision. Put forward by the Moscow-based Institute for State-Confessional Relations and Law, the draft policy specifically names the Russian Orthodox Church and \u2018historically-formed&#8217; spiritual directorates of Muslims as traditional, and representatives of both those organisations have warmly welcomed the document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Keston Institute<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian proposals for a new state policy on religion would give broad social access solely to those confessions deemed traditional\u2019 there.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[],"class_list":["post-27013","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/27013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/27013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37600,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/27013\/revisions\/37600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27013"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=27013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}