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Standing On Opposite Sides

Vart Land January 19, 2024 By Jor Hjulstad Tvedt On Friday, the parties went their separate ways in the Oslo District Court, after the two-week dispute between the state and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Ben Elder and Jan Frode Nilsen have followed the case from different sides. On Friday, the parties made their closing statements in the […]

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Religious Shunning – Good or Bad?

Vart Land January 13, 2024 “One of the worst nights I’ve had” Rakel Fjelltvedt (26) left Jehovah’s Witnesses because of the exclusion system.  It’s one of the worst nights I’ve had. It felt like I was opting out of a lot of people that I love. One October evening just over three years ago, Rakel Fjelltvedt […]

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Watchtower Rep Claims Shunning is Up to the Individual

Vårt Land By Jor Hjulstad Tvedt January 12, 2024 Jehovah’s Witness board member about cutting contact: – Up to the individual family COURT: Kåre Sæterhaug, board member for Jehovah’s Witnesses, explained himself to the court on Thursday and Friday. Here he claimed that the religious community has no rules for contact with expelled family members […]

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Governing Body The Faithful and Discreet Slave

The Question Every Witness Wants Answered!

In the 2023 annual meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses, governing body member Jeffrey Winder explains how the governing body arrives at their decisions. The process by which the light gets brighter. He claims that there is no mystery involved because the process has already been outlined in the Bible in the book of Acts chapter 15. […]

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Blood Transfusion

Control and Repression – The Ray Hemming Story

How do control and repression affect individuals within the Jehovah’s Witness community? Let’s hear Ray Hemming’s story. December 28, 2023 by Scott Douglas Jacobsen    By Ray Hemming If there’s one thing that people identify Jehovah’s Witnesses with, it’s their refusal of blood transfusions. I know it was a doctrine that I once believed was right for me […]

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Governing Body Organized Religion The Faithful and Discreet Slave Videos

To Whom Shall We Go?

Both the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) and Jehovah’s Witnesses claim to be restored church of Jesus Christ, the only true Christian religion on Earth today. To support their exclusive claims they both appeal to the words of the apostle Peter in John 6:68 in response to a teaching of […]

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1914 This Generation Videos

Do You Have the Facts?

Jehovah’s Witnesses are convinced that, out of all religions on earth, they alone have the truth. But how much do they really know about the origins of their religion? This video examines the claim, that only the early Bible students understood the alleged biblical significance of the date 1914 and how the leadership conceals from […]

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Blood Transfusion Videos

What is Jehovah’s Witnesses Definition of Blood?-Part 2

This video contains the second letter sent by R. Jensen, an elder of Jehovah’s Witnesses, to the Watchtower society regarding their reasons for refusing blood transfusions along with their reply.

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Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Policy Hides Abuse

Ousted Members Say Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Policy on Abuse Hides Offenses By Laurie Goodstein Aug. 11, 2002 William Bowen always considered himself a devout Jehovah’s Witness. As a child, he felt it was his duty to go door to door passing out the church’s magazine, The Watchtower. Later, as an elder in his Kentucky congregation, he said […]

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Blood Transfusion The Jensen Letters Videos

What is Jehovah’s Witnesses Definition of Blood?

This video contains the first important letter sent to the Watchtower society regarding their reasons for refusing blood transfusions along with their reply.