Categories
News Media Norway Shunning

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 […]

Categories
News Media Shunning

Jehovah’s Witnesses Considered a Destructive Sect in Spain

A new ruling from a Madrid court supports that the Jehovah’s Witnesses can be called an “extremist and destructive sect” MC | EFENEWS January 10, 2024 A judge has issued a second ruling that endorses, under the umbrella of freedom of expression , the criticism expressed by the Spanish Association of Victims of Jehovah’s Witnesses towards the religious confession, in this […]

Categories
News Media Norway Shunning

When Ability to Choose Your Religion is On Trial

In the next two weeks, the court will decide whether adults in a strict religious community have real freedom. If Jehovah’s Witnesses lose, it will cause a stir far beyond their own ranks. Morten Marius Larsen, news director Vart Land January 9, 2024 The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ practice of exclusion has become well known in the Norwegian […]

Categories
Apostasy Videos

Flodin Is Deceitful!

In an attempt to make it appear that apostates are deceitful, Kenneth Flodin in a morning worship talk deceitfully misquotes a Watchtower article.

Categories
Shunning Videos

Extreme Shunning Is Un-Christian

In a recent morning worship talk, Robert Ciranko, helper to the governing body, doubled down on the Watchtower society’s shunning policy. This video shows that the two main scriptures, 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 and 2 John 9-11, most often used by the organization do not support their claims. Instead of being a practice engaged in by […]

Categories
News Media Norway Shunning

Father of an Ex-Jehovah’s Witness

“It can be compared to a feeling of sadness. But it is difficult to describe,” Per Ole Nilsen searches to find the words when he is asked about his son. The distance from Grimstad to the son’s home in Risør hasn’t changed, but the father no longer travels to visit as before. Nilsen is a member of […]

Categories
News Media Norway Shunning

Living With the Nightmares

Jehovah’s Witness defector Frode: Living with the nightmares https://www.dagbladet.no/tema/jehovas-vitner-avhopper-frode-lever-med-marerittene/78508064 For many years he was part of the religious community Jehovah’s Witnesses. Then Frode (45) had enough. Now he reveals everything about life on the inside, the “forbidden” sexuality and falling in love – and the dramatic break-up. LOST FAITH: Faith disappeared over twenty years ago, […]

Categories
News Media Norway Shunning

Jehovah’s Witnesses Consider Legal Steps in Norway

The international leadership of Jehovah’s Witnesses says in a December Governing Body Update video #8 that they will never be pressured into changing their biblical stance. Jehovah’s Witnesses’ rules regarding the exclusion of members have been severely cracked down on by the Norwegian authorities. Not only are they denied state subsidies for 2021 as recently confirmed […]

Categories
Child Abuse News Media

Inside the Brutal World of the Jehovah’s Witnesses

Since the royal commission exposed the cruel treatment of victims of child abuse within the Jehovah’s Witnesses, little has changed. But in a landmark civil case, former member Amy Whitby is taking on the secretive religious group in court. By Adam Harvey, Mary Fallon, and Lucy Carter with photography by Harriet Tatham Four Corners Updated […]

Categories
News Media Norway Shunning

Jehovah’s Witnesses Denied State Aid in Norway

Sugar Mizzy  January 27, 2022 In a message on their website, the Attorney General writes that they have found several violations of the religious community law by Jehovah’s Witnesses. “After receiving warnings from previous members regarding exclusion and expulsion of members, the Ministry of Children and Family Affairs has asked the State Administrator in Oslo […]