Two brothers, Jason and Johel Woodliff, came back from Iraq with their comrades in a Marine Corps battalion that lost 48 members, greeted by a mile-long parade attended by thousands of strangers. But not by their family.

The brothers, their parents and J.R. Brown, director of public information for the Watchtower Bible Tract Society, all speak out about Jehovah’s Witnesses and military service. Read the rest »

Rutherford forbade both military service and alternative service for JW’s. This rule, enforced for some sixty years, placed thousands of JWs around the world in prisons and some died as a result. In The Watchtower of May 1 1996 the WTS’s stance on alternative service was reversed. Alternative service is again permitted! Read the rest »