Jehovah's Witnesses News

This article was published by F18News on: 24 September 2008

By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service

In its survey analysis of religious freedom in Azerbaijan, Forum 18 News Service has found continuing violations of freedom of thought, conscience and belief. The state attempts to control or limit the majority Muslim and minority religious communities, including imposing strict censorship, violating its international human rights commitments. The situation in the Nakhichevan exclave is worse than the rest of the country. Officials often claim that Azerbaijan is a state of religious tolerance – a view promoted by government-favoured groups – but the state promotes intolerance of some minorities and has not introduced the genuine religious freedom necessary for genuine religious tolerance to flourish. Read the rest of this entry »

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Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

The Constitution, ratified by the National Assembly in 1997, provides for religious freedom; however, the Government has yet to implement the Constitution. Following a 2002 government decree that religious groups must register, the Government closed all religious facilities not belonging to the country’s four principal religious groups: the Eritrean Orthodox Church, the Read the rest of this entry »

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A Jehovah’s Witness whose husband died in a shooting last weekend is in a stable condition despite refusing blood during surgery to save her life.

Amanda Hustler, 40, was shot twice in the back during an incident that saw her husband Adam killed at their luxury home in the Cornish village of Porth Kea.

Family friend Tim Mears explained there was “no issue” over a blood transfusion because of Mrs Hustler’s beliefs.

Mrs Hustler, Read the rest of this entry »

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By Geoffrey Lakeman 23/09/2008

A Jehovah’s Witness mum, shot by a gunman who killed her husband, has refused to have a blood transfusion.

Amanda Hustler, 39, is battling for life after she was shot twice in the back – allegedly by her daughter’s ex-boyfriend.

Her religious beliefs prevent her from receiving blood from someone else. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Tom Kelly, Colin Fernandez and Caroline Grant

A mother shot in the back by a gunman who killed her husband has refused blood transfusions in hospital because of her strict Jehovah’s Witness beliefs. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service

[News summary]
A ban on worshipping outside mosques in Azerbaijan, imposed after an August bomb attack on a mosque which killed three people, is still in force Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Some Muslim men have also had their beards forcibly shaved off by police. “With the rise Read the rest of this entry »

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Kris Wernowsky • kwernowsky@pnj.com • September 16, 2008

People remember Raul Gomez as a kind and unselfish man.

Maybe that’s what compelled him to jump into the turbulent waters Sunday near the Fort Pickens gate in an attempt rescue a distressed woman and her children without consideration for his own safety.

“It’s not surprising to me,” Read the rest of this entry »

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By Andrew Phelan

Saturday September 13 2008

CONVICTED killer Joe O’Reilly has been meeting for prayer sessions with a religious leader in a bid to save his soul.

The murderer is being visited in the Midlands Prison by Isaac White, a Jehovah’s Witness called ‘the pastor’ by inmates.

O’Reilly, who has converted to the faith from Catholicism Read the rest of this entry »

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(September 11, 2008)

In the latest instance of government action against Jehovah’s Witnesses and other minority Christians in Russia, officials in Ufa (Republic of Bashkortostan) have banned a planned Jehovah’s Witnesses congress, according to a September 9, 2008 report by the Interfax news agency. Around 1300 Jehovah’s Witnesses planned to hold a mass prayer service in a rented building until the local prosecutor’s office banned it. Read the rest of this entry »

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We publish again the JW-Media Communicate regarding the September 11th, 2001 attack as a tribute paid to the victims of that day, 14 of which were Jehovah’s Witnesses.

TdG News Editor

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For Immediate Release
September 11, 2001 Read the rest of this entry »

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