By Geraldine Fagan, Forum 18 News Service
Four lawyers defending Jehovah’s Witnesses have been deported since March, Forum 18 News Service has learned. The deportations of the two American and two Canadian lawyers seriously hinder the Witnesses’ attempts to defend themselves in seven local court cases seeking to ban their literature as extremist. Read the rest of this entry »
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By M.B. Sutherland
Doctors try to find middle ground for Jehovah’s Witnesses who believe certain medical procedures violate their faith
After feeling excruciating pain in her side one day, Glenease Stinson, 75, learned she had a malignant kidney tumor and that the kidney needed to be removed. All surgeries carry risks, Read the rest of this entry »
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By LYNN WEBB/The Valley Chronicle
In spite of the heat Saturday, hundreds of people were working on the new Kingdom Hall — a meeting place for members of Jehovah’s Witnesses — in San Jacinto.
Work on the site, at Palm Avenue and De Anza Drive, started in December with street work, surveying, and grading. Not too long after, ground was broken and, in April, concrete was poured. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliev has modified the text of legal changes targeting the freedom of religion or belief of Muslims, Forum 18 News Service has learned. The Caucasian Muslim Board alone will now appoint mosque leaders, only subsequently informing the State Read the rest of this entry »
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BY JONATHAN SUMMEY
Jehovah’s Witnesses know how to build a church in a hurry.
On June 2, construction began on a new Kingdom Hall on West Pennsylvania Avenue in Southern Pines. The interior and exterior of the 5,200-square-foot building will be completed this Sunday — in less than two weeks.
Carpeting, paving of the parking areas, and landscaping will be completed Read the rest of this entry »
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For Immediate Release
July 9, 2009
BALKANABAD, Turkmenistan—An appeals court in Turkmenistan has decided to imprison two conscientious objectors who had received two-year conditional sentences in November 2008. The young men thus became the first conscientious objectors incarcerated for their convictions since Read the rest of this entry »
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July 8, 2009
OTTAWA, Canada—The Supreme Court of Canada issued a significant decision holding that once an adolescent under the age of 16 proves he or she has sufficient maturity to make a particular medical treatment decision, the adolescent’s Read the rest of this entry »
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For Immediate Release
July 6, 2009
ASMARA, Eritrea—Three children ranging from two to four years of age were among the latest group of 23 Jehovah’s Witnesses arrested in Eritrea. In that number is also a child of 8, a woman over 70 and another over 80.
On June 28, 2009, some 23 members of one congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses Read the rest of this entry »
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For Immediate Release
July 3, 2009
(French)
KINSHASA, Congo—A modern, easy-to-read translation of the Bible will soon be widely available in Lingala, a common language of Congo Kinshasa.
On July 3, 2009, David H. Splane, a visiting member of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses, released the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures in the Lingala language. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service
The Council of Europe and OSCE have given a highly critical review of proposed amendments which have already been approved by Parliament in their first reading. The amended Religion Law would ban the sharing of faith, require 500 adult citizen members before a religious community could gain legal status, ban non-Trinitarian Christian communities from gaining legal status, give broad reasons for Read the rest of this entry »
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