Beginning with the 2023 Annual Meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The governing body has announced a flurry of changes to doctrines and policies affecting the lives of their members. Many of these changes admittedly have been the result of re-examining biblical texts and coming to a clearer understanding of God’s will. Thus, witnesses are now, for […]
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After waiting for well over a year with no response from the Watchtower society, brother Jensen writes again explaining how distressing it is for him to fulfill his duties as an elder, husband and father. But again, he is told to wait and not share his concerns with others about the lack of scriptural support […]
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES: Few Norwegian religious communities need to worry after the Jehovah’s Witnesses verdict, according to legal expert Vibeke Blaker Strand. – Will not trigger an avalanche of new cases. Vårt Land 05/03/2024 (EXPERT: Professor Vibeke Blaker Strand believes the Jehovah’s Witnesses verdict will stand up in the European Court of Human Rights, unlike human […]
Vart Land March 4, 2024 COURT CASE: After being deprived of state subsidies, Jehovah’s Witnesses filed a lawsuit against the state of Norway. The verdict was handed down on Monday. (VERDICT: The trial between Jehovah’s Witnesses and the State of Norway took place from 8 to 19 January in the Oslo District Court. Lawyer Anders […]
Documents about break with the church must be turned over to privacy commissioner, judge says Bethany Lindsay · CBC News · Jan 10, 2024 The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled against two congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses that tried to argue their religious freedoms were infringed when the information and privacy commissioner ordered them to turn over records containing […]
The Watchtower society has printed what they believe are scriptural reasons for shunning persons that resign from their organization. While Jesus gave instructions about how to handle a member of the Christian congregation that engages in sin and does not want to change, this video answers the question: Does the Bible support the shunning of […]
In 2015 The Australian Royal Commission in case number 29 gave the Watchtower organization recommendations that would enable them to respond more adequately to child sexual abuse allegations and protect children. After two years the commission reconvened in order to ascertain whether their recommendations were followed.
In 2015 at the Australian Royal Commission’s Inquiry into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, governing body member Geoffrey Jackson tried to explain in his testimony that Jehovah’s Witnesses do not shun former members as long as they leave unofficially by merely ceasing to attend meetings. But if they formally wish to disassociate themselves so […]
Some 30 cases involving Jehovah’s Witnesses came before the U.S. Supreme Court in the five-year period between 1938 and 1943. The decisions of which have greatly led to the protection of religious freedom. However, what happens when a member decides they want to leave the religion? Is their freedom to do so respected? This video […]
Vart Land January 19, 2024 The case of Jehovah’s Witnesses is a good example of the paradigm shift that the Religious Communities Act has undergone: Before, the religious communities were allowed to govern themselves. Today, the protection of the individual is much stronger. Jehovah’s Witnesses have filed a lawsuit against the state after they were […]