GERMANY: Should Jehovah’s Witnesses have their KdöR status revoked?
Originally published on Humanistischer Pressedienst by Julius Rupprecht on 16 February 2021 The statements of a cult expert about the practices of Jehovah’s Witnesses are true and therefore permissible. The District Court of Zurich has found that regularly criticized practices of Jehovah’s Witnesses such as the so-called ostracism and the two-witness rule are actually enforced, contrary to […]
GERMANY: First Her Faith, then Her Previous Life Lost
After questioning the teachings, a woman shares the difficulty of moving on as a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses Originally published on Niederrhein Nachrichten by Lorelies Christian on February 24, 2021 For me as an NN editor, letters to the editor based on reporting are nothing unusual. But then came a reaction that touched me very much: […]
GERMANY: State Parliament Commemorates Suffering of Jehovah’s Witnesses by Nazis
Originally published in Stuttgarter Nachrichten on January 27, 2021. Muhterem Aras, the President of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament, paid tribute to the resistance of Jehovah’s Witnesses against National Socialism on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021. She recalled that even then the Jehovah’s Witnesses had described the Nazi ideology as “the rule of the devil on earth”. Stuttgart […]
IRELAND: Jehovah’s Witness Man Jailed for 18 months
On February 18th last, a 34 year-old Jehovah’s Witness man who sent sexually explicit messages to a 13 year-old girl in 2016 has been handed down an 18 month jail term at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. To protect the identify of his victim, the man cannot be named. He met the girl through their […]
The Corny Quick-Build
I would like to tell you a little story about a quick-build which occurred over two decades ago. Remember those? Are those still a thing? Forty eight hours of selfless slave labor – sorry, indentured servitude – all for a warm fuzzy feeling of community and a complimentary generic-brand juice box. You know the drill. […]
BELGIUM: Jehovah’s Witnesses in court to respond to incitement to hatred
The Jehovah’s Witnesses, prosecuted in particular for inciting hatred against former members of this community, will appear before the Ghent Criminal Court on Tuesday. The former Center for Equal Opportunities and the Fight against Racism Unia and about fifteen people have joined as civil parties. Originally published on Le Vif on 16 February 2021. A former […]
NORWAY: Data Protection Authority opening a case against Jehovah’s Witnesses
The Data Inspectorate will investigate whether Jehovah’s Witnesses store information about members’ sex lives. Originally posted on NRK.no in Norwegian on February 17, 2021 by Inger Sunde (@inger_sunde) “This case is entirely at the heart of privacy”, says director of Data Protection, Bjørn Erik Thon. “Information of a sexual nature is particularly protected by the […]
Almost 9000 Jehovah’s Witnesses Dead
In an announcement dated November 2020, instructing members to maintain precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jehovah’s Witnesses revealed that over 130,000 adherents were infected with the virus and that at least 5000 had died. A month later, in a Governing Body Update, Jehovah’s Witness leader, M. Stephen Lett reveals that more than 7500 Jehovah’s Witnesses […]
Born with a Red Pill in my Mouth
Is it better to have believed and lost faith, or to have never believed at all? My story is of the latter; I was born into the JW organization in 1976 to a devout mother. My father’s path to the religion is a little unclear for me; all I know is that he was not […]