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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jehovah’s Witness church spends 3 years fighting scrutiny of Royal Commission of Inquiry 2:31 pm on 4 September 2023 Anusha Bradley, Investigative Reporter @AnushaBradley anusha.bradley@rnz.co.nz The Jehovah’s Witness church has been fighting scrutiny from a national inquiry into the historical abuse of children for three years, court documents show. The church has accused the Royal Commission of […]
ByAaron Katersky February 21, 2023, 1:20 PM Mormon Church to pay $5 million to settle accusations of covering up portfolio The church and its investment company, Ensign Peak Advisers, will share the cost of the settlement. The Mormon Church agreed Tuesday to pay $5 million to settle charges involving disclosure failures and misstated regulatory filings. […]
The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office reportedly is investigating whether the Jehovah’s Witnesses repeatedly failed to report child sexual abuse allegations to authorities in what is believed to be the first wide-scale examination by a U.S. law enforcement agency. The attorney general’s office told USA TODAY it “cannot confirm or deny the existence of investigations.” But Mark […]
“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 […]