‘Dozens of reports of sexual abuse among Jehovah’s Witnesses’
Originally published in Dutch by NOS nieuws on November 28, 2017. A foundation established to expose sexual abuse by Jehovah’s Witnesses received 46 reports in one week. That’s what Frank Huiting, one of the founders, says. He calls the number of reports shocking. Huiting announced the foundation more than a week ago. According to the initiators, victims are […]
‘Jehovah’s Witnesses should no longer remain silent about sexual abuse’
Photo – Discover Lanark Originally published in Dutch by NOS nieuws on November 20, 2017. A number of ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses have set up a foundation to expose abuse within the religious community. According to the initiators, victims are not heard within the closed community and perpetrators are kept a hand over their heads. “I think it is […]
Jehovah’s Witnesses – Open or Secretive?
In a free society each and every person lives under a rule of law, as opposed to a whim-ridden rule of men. Such a rule of law has only one purpose: to protect the rights of the smallest minority that has ever existed — the individual. Rules and laws serve many purposes necessary for a thriving […]
CANADA: Is David Gnam a Supreme Court Liar?
On Thursday November 2, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada heard a case involving a disfellowshipped Jehovah’s Witness who challenged the fairness of the procedures. In his opening statement, Jehovah’s Witness elder and lawyer, David Gnam (a managing partner of W. Glen How & Associates LLP), claimed that “normal family relations continue with the exception of […]
Medicinal Use of Marijuana
The use, possession, sale, cultivation, and transportation of marijuana (cannabis) is illegal under Federal Law in the United States of America. However, the federal government allows States to decriminalize the use of marijuana for recreational or medical use if there is a regulation system in place within that State. As of the writing of this article, at […]
Bringing Reproach on Jehovah’s Name
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that God’s name is Jehovah. They also believe it is imperative that a true Christian should use God’s name. These beliefs are primarily based on a biblical scripture found at Psalms 83:18. One might think that these are harmless beliefs. After all, what does it matter if God’s name is John, Michael […]
Namibia: Protecting the Blinded
It is a strange world that we live in. Stranger though, if you believe as Jehovah’s Witnesses do, that “the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” (1 John 5:19) Why so? If the wicked one is the Devil, and Jehovah’s Witnesses are followers of the true God, surely the Devil […]
It’s Never Too Late to Break Free
The following life experience was originally posted by a retired Jehovah’s Witness elder on the exJW sub-reddit. It is reproduced here with permission. My parents became Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1958, when I was just one year old. Although I went through the teenage ‘rebellious period’, I remained a member of the religion. At the age […]
Don’t Give Up in Fulfilling the Law of Christ!
The 2018 Don’t Give Up in Fulfilling the Law of Christ Circuit Assembly Talk Outlines are available here in English. The talk outlines for the Don’t Give Up in Fulfilling the Law of Christ Circuit Assembly can either be downloaded as individual PDFs or as a complete zip archive. The 2018 Don’t Give Up in Doing […]