If you have access to documents that may help improve transparency within Jehovah’s Witnesses, or may help bring justice for victims, we welcome your submissions and value your help.
Since 2018, the Jehovah's Witnesses' leaders from the World Headquarters in New York have been issuing Announcements & Reminders to Congregations. This includes instructions for elders' eyes only. We make the instructions available to all.
The Watch Tower, the organization behind Jehovah's Witnesses, has issued various textbooks that are intended to be kept secret from the ordinary members, especially women. All Jehovah's Witnesses should have access to these publications.
Prior to the issuance of Announcements & Reminders, letters were issued with the relevant letterhead from the branch that issued the letter. Most of these were for elders' eyes only. We have collected hundreds of these letters for you to read.
Locate and download documents relating to assemblies & conventions, blood & medicine, branch procedures, child sexual abuse, child custody, circuit overseers & elders, donations, pioneers & special pioneers, volunteering and much more.
If you are in child custody litigation with a parent who is one of Jehovah's Witnesses, the content here is imperative. Click the image to read more.
Jehovah’s Witnesses will let their children die if only blood will save their life.
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ have been accused of covering up the crime of child sexual abuse.
Jehovah’s Witnesses shun former members causing concern for governments.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are end-times focused, preaching an ever-imminent Armageddon.
*ISVAs: Independent Sexual Violence Advisors
This website (avoidjw.org) was created to help you learn about the controlling & secretive nature of the organization behind Jehovah’s Witnesses, often referred to as “The Society”, “The Organization”, or “Watchtower”. We provide you access to older and secretive publications that the leaders of Jehovah’s Witnesses would not like you to know about. We show you the deceptive reasoning used within the pages of the books and magazines. We discuss key individuals who were or are associated with Jehovah’s Witnesses. We help explain the reasoning methods employed by Jehovah’s Witnesses that are used to convince you of their world view.
The content found on this website has been beneficial for a whole range of individuals. It has helped current Jehovah’s Witnesses understand the inner workings of their religious group and how they deal with various situations, such as judicial committee meetings, the handling of child sexual abuse, and their underhanded methods when it comes to child custody, to name a few. Information on this website has been used by governments, courts, law enforcement, journalists, scholars, therapists and others to help them understand Jehovah’s Witnesses more fully.
The website was founded in 2014. It has changed hands numerous times since then but has continued to serve the global community in a meaningful way.
