Russia releases 2 American Mormon missionaries who were detained for almost 3 weeks.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Two American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who were detained in Russia for nearly three weeks have been released and are on their way home to the United States, a church spokesman said Wednesday.
Kole Brodowski, 20, and David Gaag, 19, were arrested on March 1 in Novorossiyk, 760 miles south of Moscow, during a meeting, said Eric Hawkins, a spokesman for the church. David Gaag, 19, a Mormon missionary from North Bend, Washington, was returning home to America on Mar. 20, 2019.Brodowski, who was nearing the end of his two-year service, will return home to Garden Grove, California, while Gaag, who is from North Bend, Washington,"will return to the United States for a short time, receive any needed support, and then continue his service in a new mission," Hawkins said.
Kole Brodowski, 20, a Mormon missionary from Garden Grove, California, was returning home to America on Mar. 20, 2019.According to the Russian state agency Interfax, a court in the Krasnodar territory fined the men on March 15 and ruled to expel them on the grounds of"carrying out missionary work by a foreign citizen in violation of the requirements of the legislation on freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and religious associations.
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