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 […]
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. […]