Two female Jehovah’s Witnesses escaped from the extremist Abu Sayyaf group after nine months of jungle captivity in the southern Philippines, military officials said today. Read more…

For more than a century Jehovah’s Witnesses are waiting for the New World where “the wolf will actually reside for a while with the male lamb, and with the kid the leopard itself will lie down, and the calf and the maned young lion and the well-fed animal all together; and a mere little boy will be leader over them…” (Isaiah 11:6-9).

Their imagination is sometimes so strong that they pretend they already live in paradise where the lion lost his appetite for human flesh. George Koll, owner of the 77 Zoological Park in Florida Panhandle was giving a tour to several reporters from Awake! magazine, published by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, when the Awake! photographer asked him to get in the cage with the lion for a picture. Read more…

By ZENY MASONG
The Associated Press
8/21/02 8:42 PM

PATIKUL, Philippines (AP) — Muslim rebels linked to al-Qaida beheaded at least two of the six Jehovah’s Witnesses they kidnapped in the southern Philippines, authorities said Thursday. Read more…

A religious conflict is brewing in a small south Kazakstan village whose Muslim residents are increasingly angry at the recruiting methods of the Jehovah’s Witnesses organisation. Read more…

Monday, Aug. 19, 2002.

By Steven Lee Myers
New York Times Service

KASPI, Georgia — The Jehovah’s Witnesses were planning a summer revival in a field next to a river gully here Friday, but a mob came the night before.

Two dozen men wearing crosses of the Georgian Orthodox Church arrived on buses and ransacked the home of the host, Ushangi Bunturi. They piled Bibles, religious pamphlets and Bunturi’s belongings in the yard and burned them, he said Friday. They filled the baptismal pool with diesel fuel. Read more…

Biased and incorrect opinions among the general population concerning beliefs and practices of JW’s, no matter how controversial, are widespread. It appears that in some cases these sentiments are reflected in the administration of justice. Read more…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an ordinance requiring Jehovah’s Witnesses or other door-to-door advocates for religious or political causes to get a permit violates free-speech rights. Read more…

The ancient Chinese tactic Sun Tzu who lived 2,500 years ago once said: “If you know your enemy and yourself, you will win every battle.” Even though the Watchtower Society (WTS) forbids its members to know their enemy, the Society itself listens to this old wisdom as shown by Watchtower Information Service’ site statistics. The WTS is a regular visitor of my site. Sometimes the brothers on Brooklyn Bethel visit my site on two successive days (see fig 1 & 2)! Read more…

The Times of Zambia (Ndola)
December 18, 2001
Posted to the web December 18, 2001

MMD presidential candidate Levy Mwanawasa’s wife, Maureen, has been excommunicated as a Jehovah’s Witness.

Mrs Mwanawasa, a baptised member of the Jehovah’s witnesses, has been excommunicated because of the couple’s involvement in active politics. Read more…

By Rado
Vleugel

The Watchtower Society (WTS) and the United Nations (UN) as partners for a better world. Everyone who is acquainted with the Jehovah’s Witnesses knows that this isn’t a likely partnership. The 7/8/1997 Awake! shows how the WTS considers the UN: "What is to happen to the UN? Revelation chapter 17 depicts the UN (and its short-lived predecessor, the League of Nations) as a scarlet-colored wild beast that "is to go off into destruction." (Revelation 17:8). " Despite the fact that the WTS has repeatedly criticised and demonised the UN, it has been affiliated with this worldly organisation for many years! Read more…