Jehovah's Witnesses News

For Immediate Release
August 27, 2009

MOSCOW—On August 18, 2009, the Supreme Court of Russia issued a decision protecting freedom of religion. It upheld an earlier ruling by the Samara Regional Court that dismissed an application by the Tolyatti City Prosecutor to liquidate the Local Religious Organization (LRO) of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

On May 29, 2009, the Samara Regional Read the rest of this entry »

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For Immediate Release
August 25, 2009

BAKU, Azerbaijan—The police again raided a group of Jehovah’s Witnesses, this time in the city of Gakh. The group met together for a religious meeting in the private home of Mrs. Tarana Khutsishvili, who is in the last month of her pregnancy and has two other children. Her husband, Elguja Khutsishvili, was deported from Azerbaijan on July 23, 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

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For Immediate Release
August 19, 2009

TBILISI, Georgia—Two Georgian nationals, Elguja Khutsishvili and Temur Aliev, were deported from Azerbaijan to Georgia on July 23, 2009, without receiving any documents to explain the reason for their deportation. Prior to their deportation both men, who are Jehovah’s Witnesses, Read the rest of this entry »

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By: Clint Cooper

With their Watchtowers and tracts, Jehovah’s Witnesses trying to fulfill bible exhortation

Flint Scott has been yelled at and had the door slammed on him, but he says that’s been a rarity in 15 years of going door to door to offer his Jehovah’s Witnesses faith to a troubled world.

“You never know what’s behind the door,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service

Within hours of arriving in the town of Uspen to visit a local Christian and set up a local congregation, police broke into the house where members of the Pavlodar Grace Church were staying, church members told Forum 18 News Service. One visitor was questioned and a local woman Read the rest of this entry »

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Mushfiq Mammadov, a conscientious objector to military service in Azerbaijan, has been detained for refusing to perform compulsory military service.

Mammadov, who is a member of the Christian group Jehovah’s Witnesses, is reportedly being held in the Kurdakhani isolation center and has not been given a lawyer.

Mammadov was once detained in Read the rest of this entry »

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Initially, 64-year-old Ismael Villa didn’t think much of it when he began experiencing slight difficulty swallowing. The devout Jehovah’s Witness prayed it would pass, but in the coming months his symptoms progressed to include severe eye pain and ear aches.

A brutal bout of labored breathing landed him in the emergency room of John M. Stroger Cook County Hospital. Read the rest of this entry »

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AUCKLAND – When Jon Clarke was just a boy a crippling disease saw him trade dreams of football fame for a Bible and a 55-year mission watching out for an event that most people seem sceptical about.

As a 13-year-old at New Plymouth Boys High Jon’s rugby skills had already seen him lined up to play for the school’s prestigious First XV. But disaster struck when an injury developed Read the rest of this entry »

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Jehovah’s Witness leaders told Action 4 News that big conventions will be coming to a new facility going up in La Feria.

Thousands of Jehovah Witnesses met at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi this past weekend.

Organizers told Action 4 News that similar district conventions could be held in the Read the rest of this entry »

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Jehovah’s Witnesses are launching a vigorous campaign to invite all to hear interesting discussions about the Bible’s description of what many people refer to as the end of the world. Witnesses are convinced that people will be intrigued and even encouraged by what will be presented at the 2009 “Keep on the Watch!” District Convention, to be held at the Northern Marianas High School Gym.

Jehovah’s Witnesses are extending a Read the rest of this entry »

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