A judge has ruled that Tawnya Nissen, a 27 year old comatose woman, may receive a blood transfusion, despite her Jehovah’s Witness husband’s objections that blood transfusions are against God’s will.

Tawnya has been unconscious since July 31, when she collapsed because of a bad reaction to a diet drug. Doctors told the family that she might need a blood transfusion if she had to undergo a tracheotomy or other emergency surgery. Tawnya has not needed a blood transfusion, and her condition has improved. But she remains unconscious, and her father — who is not a Jehovah’s Witness — asked a judge to give him, rather than her husband Chris Nissen, the power to decide on her treatment. Read the rest »

The first President of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Pastor Charles Taze Russell, died from the result of multiple ailments on the night of October 31, 1916 in a train car.

In this article you’ll find a reprint of the Will and Testament of Charles Taze Russell that was soon interpreted in different ways by Russel’s successors. Read the rest »

In 1965 a boy was molested by a ministerial servant in a congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses en route to an assembly, where the molester was due to give a talk at the convention.

Revulsed, the boy was nevertheless forced to be around this molester in the years ahead in agonizing cruel ways.

When the matter came up before the Service Dept. of the Watchtower in Brooklyn, and the elders in the local congregation, no reply was given, no apologies, no offer for counseling an abuse victim, just the warning that you “could be disfellowshipped for gossip.”

See his compelling testimony in the following 20 minute video. Read the rest »

“They burst in at the height of the service, when the symbols were being passed,” Kanin, the spokesman of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia said, referring to the bread and wine used to symbolize Jesus Christ’s body and blood. “They wouldn’t even allow them to finish the ceremony. There was nothing secretive going on there.” Read the rest »

In this video an elder states that disfellowshipping is a congregational matter and not a family matter and that Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t use the word ‘shunning’.

He talks positively about disfellowshipping saying that “for every six or ten people you bring on here that have bad experiences [with disfellowshipping] I can bring a hundred people that have been disfellowshipped … who will say it is the best thing that happened in their life”. Watch the video! Read the rest »