80 reports of abuse within Jehovah’s Witnesses
Photo – WSAW NewsChannel 7 – June 2023 Originally published in Dutch by NOS nieuws on December 28, 2017. The reporting center for sexual abuse within the Jehovah’s Witnesses received eighty reports in the first month. Fifty of these came directly to the reporting point, the thirty others came via the Trouw newspaper, which has recently written […]
Christmas, Its Origin and Purpose
Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses not celebrate Christmas? The complete answer lies in a talk that I, Richard H. Barber, gave on December 12, 1928. The talk was subsequently published in The Golden Age Volume 10 No. 241 dated December 12, 1928. Most Jehovah’s Witnesses living today would not have read or heard my talk. Yet, […]
Ireland’s Children First Act
The Children First Act 2015 was signed into Law in the Republic of Ireland on Thursday, November 19th 2015. At that time only part of the Act was in effect. The Children First Act forms part of a suite of child protection legislation in Ireland that are designed to complement each other. These other Acts […]
The Apocryphal Hypocrisy
If there is one thing Jehovah’s Witnesses have emphasized over and over again about the Bible, it is the notion that Apocryphal books of the Bible are not to be read, believed or referenced. …Which is why I was utterly shocked to find that the March 2018 Study edition of The Watchtower uses the Acts […]
‘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 […]