BLANTYRE (Malawi) – A MALAWIAN girl has declined a scholarship to study medicine at a Chinese university over concerns that her religion is banned in the communist country, sponsors said on Wednesday.
Chikondi Denemu, an 18-year-old Jehovah’s Witness, turned down one of three full scholarships arranged by private radio station Zodiak for students who excelled in their exams, station manager Gospel Kazako said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hundreds of people attended the dedication of the kingdom hall of the The Gaborone Village congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Tlokweng on Saturday.
The kingdom hall is the centre for worship of Jehovah God. The hall was constructed over only two weekends last month by 400 unpaid volunteers. Most of the volunteers travelled from South Africa at their own expense and other areas in Botswana. Read the rest of this entry »
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Sherry Blake found a purse containing $2,500 in the trash outside her apartment complex on Charleston's East End and made it her business to get the purse back to the rightful owner, who had been robbed at gunpoint earlier the same day.
By Kathryn Gregory
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — One stranger’s kindness and honesty has turned an armed robbery nightmare into a story with a happy ending.
Sherry Blake was standing in front of her apartment building on Charleston’s East End at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 27, watching garbage men take away the trash.
“I had put some heavy rusted metal in the bag and I was worried the garbage man might get injured,” she said. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Birgit Bogler
Warwick – The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is on schedule to provide the Town of Warwick this fall with plans to develop the 253-acre site of the former International Nickel Company off Long Meadow Road in Warwick.
“We’re trying to produce something that is going to blend in with the natural setting,” said Richard Devine, spokesperson for a religious order known more commonly as Jehovah’s Witnesses, in a telephone interview from his office in Brooklyn. Read the rest of this entry »
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By MICHAEL DOYLE
WASHINGTON — Religious missionaries and political activists will have more freedom to speak out in Yosemite, Great Smoky Mountains and other national parks under an important appellate court ruling.
In an expansive First Amendment decision, a key appellate court struck down a longstanding National Park Service requirement that activists obtain permits before they demonstrate, distribute brochures or engage in other “expressive” activities in parks. Read the rest of this entry »
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PHOENIX (AP) — The Pinal County business community is extending a welcome to a new Jehovah’s Witness worship center in Casa Grande.
Casa Grande and Pinal County officials hope the weekly influx of people will give the area an economic boost. Read the rest of this entry »
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Sean Higgins/Coolidge Examiner, Workers complete the interior of Arizona’s first Jehovah’s Witness assembly hall, currently under construction on McCartney Road just east of Interstate 10 in Casa Grande.
Construction is nearing completion for Arizona’s first Jehovah’s Witness assembly hall on McCartney Road in northeast Casa Grande.
The site, which is just east of Interstate 10, is home to a 45,000-square-foot weekend facility to be used by the denomination for biblical education.
Beginning in September, Jehovah’s Witness congregations, more commonly known as circuits, from across the state will make their way to Casa Grande for weekend-long educational instruction. Read the rest of this entry »
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WALKER, Mich. – Hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses are helping build a new place of worship in West Michigan. Volunteers from across Michigan are building a new Kingdom Hall on Wilson Avenue in Walker. The local congregation outgrew the previous Kingdom Hall. The new facility will have a bigger parking lot, as well as a larger auditorium in which to worship. Read the rest of this entry »
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Here in the Ozarks, we have a rich landscape of faith-based communities. In our ongoing series exploring some of the lesser known of these faith groups, KSMU’s Jennifer Moore headed out to Aurora to learn more about how Jehovah’s Witness communities pick up a shovel and a hammer when it’s time to erect a new Kingdom Hall. Read the rest of this entry »
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DARLINGTON, SC (WMBF) – A 13-year-old whose body was found at the bottom of a public swimming pool in Darlington on Saturday has been laid to rest by family members.
Funeral services for Justin Lee McKay, 14, of Darlington, were held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Glorious Apostolic Holiness Church, as investigators continue to rule out how the boy drowned. Read the rest of this entry »
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