{"id":202,"date":"2007-10-09T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wordpress\/?p=202"},"modified":"2007-10-09T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T08:43:00","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/jehovahs-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'><a HREF='http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/fp02-708789.jpg'><img SRC='http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/fp02-708778.jpg' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' ><\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'><a HREF='http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/641nbn-708814.jpg'><img SRC='http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/641nbn-708811.jpg' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' ><\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Shortly after we arrived in Odessa I was on my way down the stairs of our apartment building to take out the trash. As I exited our apartment I was met by two nice women in the stairwell.  They explained to me that they wanted to share with me about the Bible.  It didn&#8217;t take long for me to realize that they were Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses.  Unfortunately my Russian skills weren&#8217;t good enough to have a meaningful conversation with them about their teachings.<\/p>\n<p>That encounter would be the first of 5 in only 2 months!  Ukraine is definitely under attack from cults and false religion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF='http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/fp02-708789.jpg'><img SRC='http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/fp02-708778.jpg' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_'\/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a HREF='http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/641nbn-708814.jpg'><img SRC='http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/641nbn-708811.jpg' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_'\/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after we arrived in Odessa I was on my way down the stairs of our apartment building to take out the trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-3g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7693,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/an-open-letter-to-vladimir-putin-from-russian-baptists-about-religious-freedom\/","url_meta":{"origin":202,"position":0},"title":"An Open Letter to Vladimir Putin from Russian Baptists About Religious Freedom","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"April 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Russian Baptists are worried that they may lose the freedom to worship after the Russian courts banned Jehovah's Witnesses from the country. https:\/\/youtu.be\/B0LqAGkeCas A.V. 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