Andrei Danilov This is Me

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1. 1. www.archives.hrwf.net

   www.archives.hrwf.net/religiou - [Cached]

   Last Visited: 3/24/2007

   From 1999 Norton visited the Family of God Pentecostal Church twice a year, the church's pastor, Andrei Danilov, told Forum 18 in Kostroma on 15 June.
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   Following the latest refusal, the Pentecostal church in Syzran which issued the third invitation made enquiries at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Danilov, and was told that Norton was barred "in connection with a threat to national security".
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   Asked if the FSB truly considered him a threat to state security, Danilov remarked that this might be so at the top of that organisation, "but at the local level the Orthodox and the FSB are just friends, the bosses of both structures socialise together".This friendship is long-standing, he maintained, being born of the Soviet situation in which clergymen who did not inform to the KGB were either removed or sent far away, "so they ended up collaborating".
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   Forum 18 News Service (04.07.2003)/ HRWF Int. (04.07.2003) - Website http://www.hrwf.net - Email info@hrwf.net - On the eve of public holidays on 12, 13 and 14 June, Pastor Andrei Danilov of the Family of God Pentecostal Church in the city of Kostroma 400 kilometres (250 miles) north-east of Moscow received a demand from his regional department of justice for numerous internal church papers.
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   "Other churches haven't been asked," Danilov pointed out as he showed the demand to Forum 18 News Service on 15 June.
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   According to Danilov the footage, which showed scenes of his parishioners "falling in the Spirit" when blessed by visiting US preacher Bill Norton, was taken in secret and accompanied by a commentary containing accusations of hypnotism.
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   Despite having full legal status, however, "the opposition continues," Pastor Danilov told Forum 18 on 15 June.After the two churches tried to prevent the use of secret film as evidence becoming legal precedent in Russia, he said, Kostroma's regional public prosecutor ordered a retrial of the 2000 case.While the regional court upheld the previous verdict on 28 January 2003, his church has otherwise not been so successful: over the past 18 months, the 200-strong congregation has had to change its rented worship premises on three occasions.
   
   In early 2002, Danilov told Forum 18, Family of God was forced to leave Kostroma's philharmonic hall after its director came under pressure from various parties, including the local Orthodox diocese and the security services.After a few summer months at an educational institute, the church was again asked to leave, in Danilov's view due to Orthodox pressure.
   
   Over the winter the congregation rented the city's Patriot military house of culture until once more being asked to move on, this time, thinks Danilov, as a result of a friendship between the local assistant military commander and Orthodox Archbishop Aleksandr (Mogilyov) of Kostroma and Galich.
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   "The FSB (former KGB) has already had a word with the director," Danilov remarked.
   
   Pointing to "Pastors with a Pocket Calculator," an article published by local state-controlled newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda Kostroma" on 18 April, Danilov maintained that articles similarly attacking his church appear in the local press approximately every two or three months.According to this latest one, Pastor Danilov's true aim in attracting numerous "adepts" by showing the Jesus Film is to increase his church's fabulous wealth.
   
   In common with many other Russian Protestants, Danilov believes such "ordered" by other structures, in his view the Orthodox Church and the FSB: "They work together against so-called sects."
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   While the Kostroma state authorities had failed in the first instance and violated the law in the second, however, Smirnova continued to defend their response: "This concerns the lives of OUR people... hopefully we caused Danilov to think twice, I call that a result."

2. 2. www.hrwf.org

   www.hrwf.org/religiousfreedom/ - [Cached]

   Last Visited: 7/1/2008

   From 1999 Norton visited the Family of God Pentecostal Church twice a year, the church's pastor, Andrei Danilov, told Forum 18 in Kostroma on 15 June.
   ...
   Following the latest refusal, the Pentecostal church in Syzran which issued the third invitation made enquiries at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Danilov, and was told that Norton was barred "in connection with a threat to national security".
   ...
   Asked if the FSB truly considered him a threat to state security, Danilov remarked that this might be so at the top of that organisation, "but at the local level the Orthodox and the FSB are just friends, the bosses of both structures socialise together".This friendship is long-standing, he maintained, being born of the Soviet situation in which clergymen who did not inform to the KGB were either removed or sent far away, "so they ended up collaborating".
   ...
   Forum 18 News Service (04.07.2003)/ HRWF Int. (04.07.2003) - Website http://www.hrwf.net - Email info@hrwf.net - On the eve of public holidays on 12, 13 and 14 June, Pastor Andrei Danilov of the Family of God Pentecostal Church in the city of Kostroma 400 kilometres (250 miles) north-east of Moscow received a demand from his regional department of justice for numerous internal church papers.
   ...
   "Other churches haven't been asked," Danilov pointed out as he showed the demand to Forum 18 News Service on 15 June.
   ...
   According to Danilov the footage, which showed scenes of his parishioners "falling in the Spirit" when blessed by visiting US preacher Bill Norton, was taken in secret and accompanied by a commentary containing accusations of hypnotism.
   ...
   Despite having full legal status, however, "the opposition continues," Pastor Danilov told Forum 18 on 15 June.After the two churches tried to prevent the use of secret film as evidence becoming legal precedent in Russia, he said, Kostroma's regional public prosecutor ordered a retrial of the 2000 case.While the regional court upheld the previous verdict on 28 January 2003, his church has otherwise not been so successful: over the past 18 months, the 200-strong congregation has had to change its rented worship premises on three occasions.
   
   In early 2002, Danilov told Forum 18, Family of God was forced to leave Kostroma's philharmonic hall after its director came under pressure from various parties, including the local Orthodox diocese and the security services.After a few summer months at an educational institute, the church was again asked to leave, in Danilov's view due to Orthodox pressure.
   
   Over the winter the congregation rented the city's Patriot military house of culture until once more being asked to move on, this time, thinks Danilov, as a result of a friendship between the local assistant military commander and Orthodox Archbishop Aleksandr (Mogilyov) of Kostroma and Galich.
   ...
   "The FSB (former KGB) has already had a word with the director," Danilov remarked.
   
   Pointing to "Pastors with a Pocket Calculator," an article published by local state-controlled newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda Kostroma" on 18 April, Danilov maintained that articles similarly attacking his church appear in the local press approximately every two or three months.According to this latest one, Pastor Danilov's true aim in attracting numerous "adepts" by showing the Jesus Film is to increase his church's fabulous wealth.
   
   In common with many other Russian Protestants, Danilov believes such "ordered" by other structures, in his view the Orthodox Church and the FSB: "They work together against so-called sects."
   ...
   While the Kostroma state authorities had failed in the first instance and violated the law in the second, however, Smirnova continued to defend their response: "This concerns the lives of OUR people... hopefully we caused Danilov to think twice, I call that a result."

3. 3. Russia 2003

   www.hrwf.org/html/russia_2003. - [Cached]

   Last Visited: 6/14/2006

   From 1999 Norton visited the Family of God Pentecostal Church twice a year, the church's pastor, Andrei Danilov, told Forum 18 in Kostroma on 15 June.
   ...
   Following the latest refusal, the Pentecostal church in Syzran which issued the third invitation made enquiries at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Danilov, and was told that Norton was barred "in connection with a threat to national security".
   ...
   Asked if the FSB truly considered him a threat to state security, Danilov remarked that this might be so at the top of that organisation, "but at the local level the Orthodox and the FSB are just friends, the bosses of both structures socialise together".This friendship is long-standing, he maintained, being born of the Soviet situation in which clergymen who did not inform to the KGB were either removed or sent far away, "so they ended up collaborating".
   ...
   Forum 18 News Service (04.07.2003)/ HRWF Int. (04.07.2003) - Website http://www.hrwf.net - Email info@hrwf.net - On the eve of public holidays on 12, 13 and 14 June, Pastor Andrei Danilov of the Family of God Pentecostal Church in the city of Kostroma 400 kilometres (250 miles) north-east of Moscow received a demand from his regional department of justice for numerous internal church papers.
   ...
   "Other churches haven't been asked," Danilov pointed out as he showed the demand to Forum 18 News Service on 15 June.
   ...
   According to Danilov the footage, which showed scenes of his parishioners "falling in the Spirit" when blessed by visiting US preacher Bill Norton, was taken in secret and accompanied by a commentary containing accusations of hypnotism.
   ...
   Despite having full legal status, however, "the opposition continues," Pastor Danilov told Forum 18 on 15 June.After the two churches tried to prevent the use of secret film as evidence becoming legal precedent in Russia, he said, Kostroma's regional public prosecutor ordered a retrial of the 2000 case.While the regional court upheld the previous verdict on 28 January 2003, his church has otherwise not been so successful: over the past 18 months, the 200-strong congregation has had to change its rented worship premises on three occasions.
   
   In early 2002, Danilov told Forum 18, Family of God was forced to leave Kostroma's philharmonic hall after its director came under pressure from various parties, including the local Orthodox diocese and the security services.After a few summer months at an educational institute, the church was again asked to leave, in Danilov's view due to Orthodox pressure.
   
   Over the winter the congregation rented the city's Patriot military house of culture until once more being asked to move on, this time, thinks Danilov, as a result of a friendship between the local assistant military commander and Orthodox Archbishop Aleksandr (Mogilyov) of Kostroma and Galich.
   ...
   "The FSB (former KGB) has already had a word with the director," Danilov remarked.
   
   Pointing to "Pastors with a Pocket Calculator," an article published by local state-controlled newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda Kostroma" on 18 April, Danilov maintained that articles similarly attacking his church appear in the local press approximately every two or three months.According to this latest one, Pastor Danilov's true aim in attracting numerous "adepts" by showing the Jesus Film is to increase his church's fabulous wealth.
   
   In common with many other Russian Protestants, Danilov believes such "ordered" by other structures, in his view the Orthodox Church and the FSB: "They work together against so-called sects."
   ...
   While the Kostroma state authorities had failed in the first instance and violated the law in the second, however, Smirnova continued to defend their response: "This concerns the lives of OUR people ... hopefully we caused Danilov to think twice, I call that a result."