The Zheleznodorozhniy District Court in Khabarovsk will announce its verdict on Friday, February 14, 2020, in the trial involving Brother Yevgeniy Aksenov. The prosecution has requested a three-year prison sentence.

On April 21, 2018, Brother Aksenov gathered with friends and acquaintances in a hotel conference room to discuss the Bible. On that occasion, he spoke to those assembled about how Bible principles can strengthen families. For this reason, he was accused of a “socially dangerous crime” and charged with “organizing the activities of an extremist organization.” The trial began on October 21, 2019.

As Brother Aksenov’s trial comes to a close, we pray that he and his family will continue to look to Jehovah for support, confident in Jehovah’s inspired promise that his loyal ones will “lack nothing.”—Psalm 34:9.