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USA : bombshell lawsuits allege 'insidious child sex abuse epidemic' and decades of whitewashing inside secretive confines of Jehovah's Witness church.

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Petition : Launch an Investigation to Determine If Jehovah's Witnesses Have A Right to Use Coercion Forms of Mental Torture To Force Its Members Not to Leave.

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Australia : father tells young daughter not to worry about sexual abuse as Jehovah sees everything and will sort it out,’ court hears.

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UK : High Court judge orders that teenage boy should be given life-saving treatment against the wishes of his Jehovah's Witness mother.

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Authorized use official JW ORG mobile carts - Jehovah's Witnesses and Watch Tower Society deny legal liability for accidents and places legal and financial burden on individual 'publisher'.

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Belgium : lawsuit of Jacques Lejeune against the Watchtower : June 30, 2014, the Court of Appeal of Mons declares itself incompetent and referred the case to the Court of Appeal of Brussels.

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UK : 'I'm relieved that everybody now knows what he has done, what he is capable of': Victim of paedophile Jehovah's Witness reveals how she spoke out to protect other children.

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UK : 'There were 12 elders and not one of them stood up 'not one': Victim of Jehovah's Witness rapist describes torment.

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UK : 'If sex is out of the question can I just have a grope?' What Jehovah's Witness is accused of asking woman locked in his Jaguar.

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Australia : government publishes on official web site the current Jehovah's Witnesses "Handling of Child Abuse" confidential letter to all bodies of elders (October 1, 2012).

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USA : Governing Body discontinues the role of district overseer and orders changes in terminology and assembly arrangements.

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UK : Jehovah's Witness convicted paedophile, 79, jailed after fleeing to Caribbean to work with children for eight years.

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Belgium : cassation lawsuit of Jacques Lejeune : the JW's lawyers(3 of them) speeches for the defence will continue on May 19, 2014. Before that, the JW's will make new submissions for March 15 and his lawyer will make his submissions for April 15. The judgment of the Court of Appeal of Mons should be made next June. The case may still be appealed to the ECHR.

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Canada : 15-year-old Jehovah's Witness follower ran away from non-JW parents. Family blames RCMP for failing to return their daughter.

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USA : Jehovah's Witness couple and their young children found shot dead in two-story home after grim 'murder suicide'.

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USA : the Watchtower releases a new version of it's bible, New World Translation 2013, with many changes.

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Canada, province of Quebec : secular charter (charter of values) : Quebec wants to ban "easily visible" religious symbols for public employees.

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UK : Jehovah's Witness whose wife died after refusing blood transfusion is jailed for 13 years over child sex abuse covered up by religion's elders.

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USA : civil lawsuit filed against Ohio Jehovah’s Witnesses Congregation and national organizations by sexual abuse victim.

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UK : Jehovah's Witness leaders ordered to give evidence in sex scandal trial after claiming they had a 'duty to God not to breach confidence'.

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Europe(Belgium) : the lawsuit of Jacques Lejeune against the Watchtower will continue before the Court of Appeal of Mons on february 11, 2014.

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France : serious lack of judgment from the State Concil : it allows Jehovah's Witnesses to access certain Miviludes documents concerning them(MetroFrance).

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Azerbaijan : Supreme Court rejects appeal of Jehovah's Witnesses religious community against Azerbaijani State Committee.

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Costa rica : Elder Michael Johnson Norris has a $250,000 warrant for several felonies including child molestation and attempted oral copulation of a child.

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France : State pays back 6.3 millions euros to Jehovah's Witnesses. (Religion.blog.lemonde.fr).

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Zambia : Jehovah’s Witness Elder in court for rape, Lawyer questions why victim’s father took case to police instead of church.

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USA : Candace Conti : the Watchtower Society is going to ask the Judge during their next court outing (8th November 2012) to reduce the bond or free them of it all together, because it can't pay!

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New instructions to the body of elders concerning the handling of child abuse and legal procedures. The Watchtower asks them to destroy the old instructions letters! (Oct.1st).

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UK : Sales rep who was branded 'gay' because he didn't like football wins 44,000 payout following months of 'atrocious' bullying by Jehovah's Witnesses coworkers.

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New Zealand : Jehovah's Witnesses parents deny daughter life-saving transplant because it involves blood transfusions.

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Kyrgyzstan : Jehovah's Witnesses have failed in the Supreme Court in their attempt to challenge the denial of registration to three of their branches.

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Belgium : lawsuit of Jacques Lejeune against "Christian congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses" : request for cassation to the Belgium's Supreme Court.

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USA : Please sign the petition : Protect Americans from Dangerous Cults: Modify USC Title 26 501 Tax Exemptions Requirements.

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Azerbaijan : Baku's Jehovah's Witness community finally lost in the Supreme Court in February 2012, and is preparing a case to the ECHR.

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USA : Ohio woman thanks lawyer for saving her life 36 years ago by allowing her to receive a blood transfusion despite the objections of her Jehovah's Witnesses parents.

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Starting from January 1, 2013, the public Watchtower and Awake will have only 16 pages. It will be announced on April 8th, after the WT study. Some articles will be available only on-line at jw.org. The websites will be merged into one : www.jw.org starting June 2012.

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Australia : Steven Unthank's lawsuit against the Watchtower : the Director of Public Prosecutions discontinued the prosecution.

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USA : Judge sentences the long time ministerial servant Kozelisky to maximum prison time in child molestation case.

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USA : Jehovah's Witness jumps to death In Brooklyn. Jehovah's Witnesses commit suicide at a rate far exceeding (5-10 times greater) the general population.

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The Federal Public Ministry at Ceara, Brazil, on July 14, 2011 filed a civil action against the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses in the 8th Federal Court for practicing religious discrimination against former members.

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On July 15, 2011 the Superior Court of Quebec (Canada) ordered a blood transfusion, before the surgery, to an eleven month old baby of Jehovah's Witnesses parents who opposed it. Journal de Montréal. (Click, pdf format.)

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AUSTRALIA : a former Jehovah's Witness is to launch a private criminal prosecution against the religion's world headquarters.

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New Elders Only Watchtower book, Shepherd the Flock of God 1 Peter 5:2. 2010.

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France : Miviludes (interministerial mission for monitoring and combatting cultic deviances) releases a new guide called : "La protection des mineurs contre les dérives sectaires"(The protection of minors against cultic deviances).

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Confirmation that Brother Splane has been named as Barry's successor in Writing.

Confirmation of all 6 Central American countries merging under the Mexican Branch. The Bethel family staff has been reduced from 300 to 75.

Russia : The Russian Government is appealing the ECHR June 10, 2010 ruling to the Grand Chamber.

Year trial starting mid-2011 of a Simplified English language WT edition for countries where English is a 2nd language; if successful, benefits are extended to the translation departments as well as to parents of young children.

Year trial (USA) shepherding program for DO (and wives), global afterwards.

4 Theocratic Schools. Starting Sept 1, 2011 each year Patterson will host 2 Branch Committee classes and 2 Traveling Overseer classes. These will be the second courses for the Brothers.

MTS name change to “Bible School for Single Brothers (BSSB).

New school: Bible School for Christian Couples.

Teasing : an adult child who lives outside of the household is DFd? While the term Necessary family business is a term familiar with those in this circumstance; the GB wants to stress there is no need to push this to the extreme! Basically to shorten the example and to get to the heart of the matter.. there must be incentive for the DFd person to want to return. Parents are encouraged to give a little but to leave the DFd child desiring for more while promoting their actions as motivate by their love for Jah. The end result is hope that the DFd child in wanting full access to the abundant love of his parents willl also begin to see his losses in not having a relationship with Jehovah and seek reinstatement.

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Russia : a Jehovah's Witness member faces a year in prison over her refusal to allow her son to receive a blood transfusion that might have prevented his death.

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UK : a Jehovah's Witness who sexually abused a young girl for five years confessed to church leaders almost 20 years before he was caught.

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According to rumors, Bethel branch office in Austria, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland are closing down in the near future. Most of the business will be taken care of from the German Bethel.

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Raymond Franz died from a severe brain hemorrhage caused by a head trauma.

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"THIS GENERATION" Teaching Changes for 6th Time in April 15, 2010 Watchtower.

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Georges Fenech, president of the Miviludes creates an anti-cult police in France.

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After Wallkill, the Watchtower is moving to Warwick.

Bill Bowen from Silentlambs.org has been received in France by the president of the MIVILUDES (Mission Interministérielle de Lutte et de Vigilances contre les Dérives Sectaires)(the interdepartmental mission of vigilance and fighting against cults).

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All donations are sent to one account in the USA.(2008).

Since the May 1st 2007 Watchtower p.31, the period from year 33 to 1935 is no longer valid to select saints. A 10-year-old Jehovah's Witness could presumably become a saint.

According to rumors the position of the overseers will be abolished. It will be the responsibility of the elders to visit the congregations.

The magazine Awake is reduced to one publication per month since January 2008.

The Watchtower: one publication distributed for the general public and one reserved to Jehovah's Witnesses since January 2008.

The reduction of meeting time goes from 2 hours to 1:45 on the weekends. Starting January 2009, the book study meeting will no longer happen but will be incorporated in the service meeting (traditionally Tuesday evenings) all while respecting the allotted time of 105 minutes.