Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday banned Jehovah's Witnesses from operating anywhere in the country, accepting a request from the justice ministry that the religious organization be considered an extremist group.

The violence is brutal, the cruelty extreme and the anti-gay hostility extremely virulent. ​​​​​​​

Christianity faces a grave threat from globalization, but Vladimir Putin does not offer the right response.

Comparing the president to Putin, Hitler or the anti-Christ distracts from what is taking shape on the ground.

The story of a corrupt president, Boris Yeltsin, and his successor, Putin, trying to reconstruct their country as a world power