A 46-year-old sister who served as a Bethelite said she was forced to move Brooklyn Bethel after she was seriously injured while serving the Watchtower Society.
But a judge’s ruling this week that she is entitled to worker’s compensation payments could end up costing the Watchtower Society millions of dollars. Read more…
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania have initiated legal proceedings against Peter Mosier, who has been displaying “Quotes” from the Jehovah’s Witnesses publication on his website. The law suit seeks a reported $100,000 in damages and a court order to silence the website. Read more…
(I-Newswire) – For over 125 years the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society has been proclaiming the end of the world is nigh. It is to be replaced with a New Order where only those espousing their beliefs will live.
Yet the Watchtower Society continued to build in Brooklyn, expanding their smaller headquarters to contain several large properties in the exclusive Brooklyn Heights section next to the Brooklyn Bridge. Read more…
TORONTO (CP) – A woman who received $5,000 in damages after accusing the Canadian wing of the Jehovah’s Witnesses of negligence over their handling of allegations of sexual abuse is being asked to pay part of the religious group’s $160,000 in legal costs in the case. Read more…
A giant waterfront building owned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Brooklyn Heights could soon go on the block – with an early estimated price tag of $120 million.
The potential sale of the nearly 1 million-square-foot building at 360 Furman St., a structure that many expect would be converted to luxury lofts, has local Realtors abuzz. Read more…
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
by The Associated Press
DEER LODGE (AP) – Two Jehovah’s Witness church elders who fleeced a 100-year-old Deer Lodge woman out of her life savings and family ranch were sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison with 10 suspended. Read more…
A church elder was ordered by a federal judge on Tuesday to pay more than $4.7 million in restitution to almost 50 victims of a Ponzi-like con game – many of them elderly members of his own congregation. Read more…
The WTS has often criticized other churches for passing collection plates during meetings. Other fundraising efforts have also been repeatedly condemned before 1990. After this year the criticism stopped and the WTS began to openly solicit donations. Read more…
Learn more of the Watchtower and money. This is the original tax-return of the WTS of Canada for the year 1996. Read more…