Is Michael Jackson re-embracing the values of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, even though he’s publicly separated himself from the denomination in the past? Read more…
A disfellowshipped armed man threatened to blow himself up in a Circuit Assembly Hall in Rome Saturday where around 2,000 members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses were holding a Circuit Meeting, Italian media said. Read more…
The author’s hope is that this novel, in its own way, will act as an informative causeway over the far-reaching waters of the authoritatively minded WatchTower Bible and Tract Society. Read more…
Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again. Read more…
Mkalavishvili, a fiery speaker, has railed against Jehovah’s Witnesses
Georgian police have raided a church to detain a radical ex-Orthodox priest after a clash with his supporters.
Vasily Mkalavishvili, known for his fierce attacks on religious minorities, had barricaded himself inside a church in the capital, Tbilisi. Read more…
A Jehovah’s Witness who carried out a sex attack on an 11-year-old schoolboy yesterday walked free from court.
Anthony Gibbs, 36, climbed into bed with the boy at the home of a fellow churchgoer after being rejected by a woman during a night out. Read more…
QUEENSLAND NEWS
11mar04
A devout Jehovah’s Witness and family man raped two children and assaulted five others in a lagoon at a Gold Coast theme park, a court was told yesterday. Read more…
The Department of Public Information of the UN confirms in a press release (due to “receiving numerous inquiries regarding the association of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York ” with the UN) that Jehovah’s Witnesses shared the ideals of the UN Charter. This is not in line with the teachings of the Watchtower Society. Till this day they depict the United Nations as the “scarlet-colored wild beast” with “Babylon the Great ( the world empire of false religion)” as its rider. Read more…
The 21th century is already the third century in which Jehovah’s Witnesses expect the end of this world. Every year the Watchtower Society publishes a Yearbook with a Yeartext. The Yeartext for 2004 is: Read more…
A bitter clash between religious beliefs and medical treatment led to the ultimate breakup and bankruptcy of a Calgary family, a judge has concluded in the parents’ divorce action. Read more…