Jehovah's Witnesses News

For Immediate Release
December 30, 2009

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan—Three of Jehovah’s Witnesses who remain in prison for sentences of up to four years for allegedly organizing “illegal religious activity” have been excluded from amnesty considerations.

In 2008, Abdubannob Ahmedov and Sergey Ivanov were sentenced to four years and three and one-half years in prison, respectively, in Margilan, Fergana Region, Uzbekistan, for organizing illegal religious activity. Olim Turayev, a medical doctor and married father of three sons, recently completed the first year of his four-year sentence in a labor colony near Samarkand, also for “illegal religious activity” and for teaching religion. Read the rest of this entry »

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By BILL MILLER and NICHOLAS SAKELARIS

SOUTHLAKE — Investigators hope to analyze data from the onboard computer of a wrecked 2008 Toyota Avalon to see whether they can learn why the car veered off a road, flipped and landed in a pond Saturday morning, killing all four people inside.

The Avalon was among the vehicle models recalled last month because of concerns about the gas pedal getting stuck on the floor mat, causing sudden acceleration.

Lt. Ben Brown, a Southlake police spokesman, said Tuesday that investigators will try to determine whether the floor mat was involved but that it might be difficult. Read the rest of this entry »

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For Immediate Release
December 30, 2009

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan—Appeals have been rejected for seven women, all Jehovah’s Witnesses, who were convicted of “conducting illegal religious activity” and for “violating rules of religious meetings.” Three of the women, 57-year-old Nabieva Mamlakat, 39-year-old Farahova Angelina, and 38-year-old Tashboltaeva Gulchehra, were sentenced to five days of custody, while the other four women were each fined the equivalent of US$1,350. Read the rest of this entry »

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Followers bear Witness to Bible’s urgent message

Jehovah’s Witnesses had powerful reasons to rejoice at their 2009 Keep on the Watch! International Convention. They were delighted to note many in the community chose to attend sessions of this special four-day event. The attendance of more than 20,000 included Witnesses from some 27 different countries, among them missionaries from various parts of the world, and non-Witnesses from throughout T&T. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Mphikeleli Msibi

JEHOVAH’S Witnesses had reasons to rejoice regarding their 2009 ‘Keep on the Watch!’ district convention.
The peak attendance of 6972 included Jehovah’s Witnesses and non-Witnesses alike from all corners of Swaziland.
The 2009 ‘Keep on the Watch!’ convention was designed to focus on mankind’s urgent need to pay attention to the Bibles prophecies concerning the end of the world alienated from God. Jesus exhorted his followers to ‘keep on the watch, to keep spiritually alert to the fulfillment of his multifaceted prophecy concerning his presence and ‘the conclusion of the system of things.’ Matthew 24:3, 42 the only way to survive the execution of Jehovah God’s judgement is to ‘keep awake,’ while zealously urging others to do the same. Matthew 24:14; Mark 13:33; Romans 13:11 say Christian families should exert themselves in all matters relating to the worship of Jehovah so that each member of the household can be preserved alive through the upcoming great tribulation. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Mphikeleli Msibi

AS a result of their Bible research, Jehovah’s Witnesses anticipate global changes in the very near future.

Key Bible texts explaining the meaning of what many people refer to as the end of the world will be discussed in the Witnesses’ upcoming three-day ‘Keep on the Watch’ district Convention. Jesus’ words in the text at Matthew 24:21 describe the world’s end as a “great tribulation such as not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no nor will occur again.”
The convention is scheduled to begin Friday at Somhlolo National Stadium, Lobamba. Many people have different views about the end of the world but Jehovah’s Witnesses feel that what the Bible teaches on the matter is enlightening, sobering and meaningful. Program parts throughout the three-day event will highlight an analytical and reasonable as opposed to fanatical approach to that subject. The opening part tomorrow morning will deal with the subject “Why Must We ‘Keep on the Watch.” Read the rest of this entry »

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By Billy Loftin
New worship hall is being built by volunteers from all over the region

AMARILLO — Over five-hundred dedicated volunteers from all over the region have gathered to build a new worship hall here in Amarillo. The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, this brand new worship hall will serve 3 different congregations here in town.

It’s hard to believe that just this past Wednesday all that stood was a concrete foundation, but over the past couple of days volunteers from as far as Alpine and Perryton have quickly built this project from the ground up. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Matthew Legg Business editor

One of Carlisle’s best-known businessmen has wound up his 35-year career in printing to spread the word of God.

Derek House, a key figure in the city’s once thriving printing industry, has sold his QIC Print company, at Durranhill, to concentrate on his work as a Jehovah’s Witness.

He becomes a full-time minister in January and will be involved in house-to-house preaching.

The 63-year-old arrived in Carlisle from Cornwall as a teenager in the 1960s.

He formed Derek House Design and Print in 1975 in premises shared with The Cumberland News engraving department on Pack Horse Lane and sold the business in 1992.

QIC Print was founded three years later by his daughter, Stephanie Hunt, and his sister, Lesley Elston, but he returned to take a leading role as they raised young families.

The business quickly outgrew its first premises at Mr House’s home in Scotby. It moved to its present site in Brunel Way in 2001 after acquiring the print business of H&H Group.

The foot and mouth outbreak that year severely dented trade but it bounced back stronger than ever. Read the rest of this entry »

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BALLSTON SPA — Three young men are being charged after allegedly throwing rocks through the glass doors of a church, Saratoga County sheriff’s deputies said Friday.

An investigation into a complaint by the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses on Goode Street led to the arrest of brothers Just, 22, and Dylan, 19, Whitt, of Ballston Spa and Shawn Smith, 22, of Schuylerville.

While at a party in Schenectady on Oct. 25, the trio allegedly planned to throw the stones though the front glass doors of the church on their way home. They stopped to grab five-pound rocks from a stone wall fence on Randall Road in Ballston. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Stephanie Innes

Lena McCline was spending nine hours a week in dialysis, an exhausting process for the 70-year-old Tucson grandmother of six.
And she was waiting for a kidney donor. And waiting. When a match with a deceased donor came up in the spring she was briefly buoyed by hope. But that hope turned to disappointment. The donor had been a drug user and though she was told the kidney was nonetheless healthy, McCline refused.

“Psychologically, I think that would have messed me up,” said McCline, who believes her kidney damage was brought on by chemotherapy after a bout of colon cancer 13 years ago.
So it was back to square one, looking for a donor on a waiting list that can be as long as seven years. That is, unless a “living donor” were to come forward — a blood match who could pass the screening process and who would be willing to give up a kidney for her. Read the rest of this entry »

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