RELIGION SOCIETY ACT: Jehovah’s Witnesses have made changes to their exclusion practices, and believe they may be entitled to state subsidies again. But neither the state nor ex-members are convinced. Rakel Lima Fjelltvedt is a former Jehovah’s Witness. She was excluded from the religious community after she chose to withdraw from it. Today she has […]
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On their official website (JW.Org) the Watchtower organization regularly posts articles and videos stating that it is a requirement of God for persons to be members of an organized religion in order to gain salvation. This channel has addressed this topic before. But in their most recent posting the statement is made that some people […]
Friday, October 18, 2024 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Washington Defendant targeted Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Halls Tacoma –A 52-year-old Olympia, Washington man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 11 years in prison for a series of arsons and a shooting spree in 2018 that damaged or destroyed […]
by Nicklas Calvert • Alberte Linde On March 4, 2024, Oslo Tingrett approved the decision of the Norwegian state to depriving Jehovah’s Witnesses of recognition as a religious community in Norway. The Crown witness in the previous trial was 47-year-old Norwegian Jan Frode Nilsen. He is a former member of Jehovah’s Witnesses and has been […]
Morten Dahlin emphasizes that Jehovah’s Witnesses must behave properly and follow Danish law’ by Alberte Linde Ekstra Bladet uncovers the finances of Jehovah’s Witnesses, the people behind, the rules and the life of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It comes after the organization presented their members in March with a number of new rules that have resulted in […]
Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King The Jehovah’s Witnesses must pay $48,000 in court costs to the Crown for a string of failed cases brought against the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. The Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses Australasia sought a judicial review in 2023 in a bid to get out of being […]
Updated June 2, 2024Published June 2, 2024 SVT Nyheter Jehovah’s Witnesses are facing new challenges today when defectors speak out on social media, says journalist Jenny Küttim, who herself grew up as a Witness and later came to examine the movement. – I am impressed by how Ida spreads knowledge on Tiktok, she says. At […]
The Post April 23, 2024 The Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse in care was acting within its powers to investigate complaints involving Jehovah’s Witnesses, a court has decided.LAWRENCE SMITH / STUFF Jehovah’s Witnesses have lost an appeal to have abuse claims involving elders ruled “out of scope” of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into […]
TribLive Roger E. Zellars COURTESY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL Two Western Pennsylvania men are the latest accused of raping or sexually abusing girls stemming from a statewide grand jury investigation of child sexual abuse in the Jehovah’s Witnesses community. Ronald W. Mangone, 69, of Lower Burrell and Roger E. Zellars, 68, of Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood […]
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How Religious Shunning Ruins Lives
A form of institutionalized estrangement, shunning hurts health of the excluded. Psychology Today Updated March 27, 2024 | KEY POINTS A former member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Josh Caswell Sr., reached out to me after reading one of my posts about estrangement. He asked that I explore the policy practiced in some religions of shunning. In religious […]