Nevertheless, in spite of all attempts to intimidate the brothers in Liopetri, there is a congregation in the village today, and recently the brothers were able to build a fine new Kingdom Hall.

There was particularly fierce fighting in a suburb of Nicosia, the town called Trachonas, where there was a mixed population of Greek and Turkish Cypriots. There were a number of Jehovah’s Witnesses who lived in Trachonas, and they had built a large Kingdom Hall there.