SPAIN: Supreme Court says religions cannot keep all personal data of members who leave
Before a request for total deletion of data, a proportional judgment must be made against the right of conservation. Article previously published in Spanish on Confilegal by Irene Casanueva on March 13, 2021 A religious group has the right to keep personal data of a person who leaves the religion when it is necessary for […]
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Right to Vote Prohibited
Jehovah’s Witnesses deny their members the right to vote in democratic election. The leaders demand that all Jehovah’s Witnesses remain neutral. Members who exercise their democratic right to vote are expelled and shunned. Freedom of religion is a fundamental right in a democratic society. We have the right to believe what we want. We have […]
BRAZIL: Sexual abuse, Heresy & Social Control in Jehovah’s Witnesses
Original published on GospelPrime on March 3, 2021 by Michael Caceres “It was like a house of cards that has collapsed,” says a former cult elder. For 40 years of his life, António Madaleno, born in Portugal, was part of Jehovah’s Witnesses, which he defines as a “cult”. He was just one year old when […]
Netherlands: Sander Huls Leaves Jehovah’s Witnesses and Shares His Experience
Originally published on NPO Radio 1 on March 3, 2021 They don’t vote, don’t celebrate birthdays, refuse blood transfusions, but are best known for their ‘field service’; the foot in the door. The Netherlands has about 30,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses. Sander Huls was one of them, but left the religious group about 7 years ago. Sander shares his experiences on […]
Choose Your Apps Wisely – Controlling Mobile App Choices
In April 2020, Watch Tower performed a controlled release of a video entitled, “Choose Your Apps Wisely”. It was shown at congregation meetings around the world. It has not been published on jw.org for public viewing. The video is a manipulative attempt to control members mobile app choices. The 150 second video begins by asking […]
Mikael Torfason: A Child Survivor of Watch Tower’s Blood Policy
Mikael Torfason may not be a name that you are familiar with. Yet, this Icelander novelist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and director is well-known in Iceland. He is also a former Jehovah’s Witness. I discovered him quite by chance, after watching an Icelandic TV show on Netflix entitled, The Valhalla Murders. If you know nothing about […]
Awake! Magazine: A Quiet Death to a False Hope
Has the Awake! magazine been killed and burried in a shallow grave of false hope? Jehovah’s Witnesses have not published an Awake! magazine since March 2022. There has been no announcement from the World Headquarters in New York that the publication has ceased production. Yet, no edition has yet been released since March 2023. The […]
ARGENTINA: Two Jehovah’s Witnesses to be Tried for Alleged Child Sexual Abuse
Originally published on El Argentino on March 1 2021. An oral and public trial will begin in which the defendants Matías Vargas and Vito Luciano Panza will be seated in the dock, to whom the Prosecutor’s Office and the complaint are charged with crimes against sexual integrity to the detriment of two girls from the […]
USA: Jehovah’s Witnesses Sawmill Destroyed by Fire
A fire broke out at the sawmills at Watchtower Farms in WallKill, New York on Friday. Three separate fire departments in the region spent most of the afternoon fighting the blaze. Wood stored at the saw mill was used for the farm’s agricultural operation and has been in use since the 1960’s. The fire consumed […]