Why a Young Father Left Jehovah’s Witnesses
He believed. To the end of the world, the mission, the congregation. Then he had two sons – and left the Jehovah’s Witnesses. For this, Oliver Wolschke pays a high price. BY SEBASTIAN LEBER – Originally posted on Der Tagesspiegel on July 26, 2017 On a Friday evening at the end of March, he attends yet another service. He sits […]
Natalia Koretskaya
Natalia Koretskaya was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses for many years. She was called as a legal witness by the Russian Ministry of Justice during the court hearings held in Moscow earlier this year to ban the Witnesses. Her fascinating journey in life was originally posted on JWForum. name in Russian. It is translated and posted here […]
KWATI A WƆKWATI SƐ WƆBƐKWATI
Nansa nhyiamu a wato din “Di Yehowa Nokware Daa” bi kɔɔ so wɔ Ghana August 12 – 14, 2016. Yehowa Dansefoɔ bi deɛ ɛnyɛ ‘honhom fam aduane’ no nti na na wɔwɔ hɔ. Ɔkɔɔ hɔ sɛ ɔrekɔhwɛ sɛnea Adansefoɔ afoforɔ bɛyɛ wɔn adeɛ wɔ kasa a wakyekyem a ɛhyɛ nkuran sɛ wɔnkwati afoforɔ a wato […]
Literature Litter
I was born in 1977. I am a fifth generation Jehovah’s Witness on my mother’s side. I’m a third generation on my father’s side. This doesn’t include overlapping generations! My great grandma’s uncle was of the “Anointed”. He was a “Colporteur” of the tens and twenties of the 20th Century. My great grandma died out in service […]
Waking Up Ghana
Waking Up Ghana is one Ghanaian elder’s story of escaping the cult of Jehovah’s Witnesses. He provides an insightful look into the Jehovah’s Witnesses judicial system. He highlights its flaws and weaknesses. He gives reader’s an understanding of how such a fallacious system lays the groundwork for exposing the religion for what it truly is.
Shunning the Shunning
A 3 Day “Remain Loyal to Jehovah” Regional Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses took place in Ghana over the weekend of August 12 – 14th 2016. One Jehovah’s Witness who attended that convention, was not there to be “spiritually nourished”. No. He was there to document the reaction of his fellow brothers and sisters to the shunning talks given as […]
Forced Worship
This is a letter, Jason Wade* wrote to his father shortly after being told by his dad that he would never speak to him again unless he would Return to Jehovah. No one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family. – […]
The Anointed Covert Apostate
Apostates are persons Jehovah’s Witnesses believe are ones who abandon or desert worship and service of God. They believe apostasy includes those who believe in God but reject Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society / JW.org as being’s “God’s Organization”. Terry E. Walstrom’s story describes an Apostate who does not fit Jehovah’s Witnesses’ description. Yet, this Apostate was highly regarded […]
Deaf, Abused & Shunned
This is the true story of Jayne Foreman. She is a deaf woman who was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. From the age of 8, I was brought up as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Back then, I could never understand Jehovah’s Witnesses. This was because I was deaf. And I was in a congregation where there was no interpreter. […]