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American Pastor Faces Deportation From Russia After Calling on Churchgoers to Pray for Donald Trump

The court said his prayer session amounted to unlawful missionary activity and kept him in detention until Aug. 27.

Summary by The Moscow Times
A court in Far East Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has ordered the deportation of an American pastor after he was recorded leading a prayer for U.S.

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For about 30 years, an accused U.S. citizen came to Kamchatka with charitable missions and helped children's homes, raising eight children, five of whom were adopted in Russia.

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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A court in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky fined American pastor Paul Gione 30,000 rubles for violating the rules of missionary activity. The court also decided to expel him from Russia. The publication “Siberia. Realities” Details. The report against Gione was drawn up at the end of May. The reason was that on May 23, Gione held religious talks with residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at the Full Gospel Church. Law enforcers indicated that the pasto…

The Kamchatka authorities have decided to expel US citizen, Pastor Paul Gione, from Russia. The reason was his speech at a local church, where he invited parishioners to pray for US President Donald Trump. According to the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court, on May 23, Paul Gione visited the Church of the Full Gospel at the invitation of a friend and, at the request of the rector, addressed the parishioners. The Ministry of Internal Affairs for…

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