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MOSCOW, February 11 (RAPSI) – Investigative authorities of Russia’s Zabaikalsky Krai region in Siberia have initiated a criminal case over activities of a chapter of banned Jehovah’s Witnesses, according to a statement of Russia’s Investigative Committee. Investigators believe that a local chapter of Jehovah’s Witnesses has been operating in the town of Chita and several districts of the Zabaikalsky Krai for some years; the case was opened on the grounds that this religious society had been banned by a court decision as an extremist organization. In April 2017, the Supreme Court of Russia ordered liquidation of the Jehovah's Witnesses managing organization and a…
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WHY .... doesn't Jehovah God consider warfare ... murder? It seems clear to me that Jehovah allows civil governments to run their own affairs as they see fit, and even has no objection to them judging and executing wrongdoers ... and even commands us to be in subjection to these governments, as even the very worst of them are better than anarchy. People generally misinterpret the scripture that say " Thou shalt not kill." where the scripture more actually says "Thou shalt not murder". There is a very real difference. A sovereign government, executing a wrongdoer is implementing the political will of that government ... whether it be a government the size o…
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The final decision Darren Collison is getting closer. Adrian Wojnarowski reports, ESPN, former Indiana Pacers set a meeting with his agent, Bill Duffy, which will determine definitively whether or not looking back to the NBA. This will take place early next week, and if the decision is positive start round of meetings with the Lakers and Clippers. Collison announced his retirement last summer, news that surprised friends and strangers because his age (31 years old at the time, 32 now) and did not invite to think of a goodbye to basketball. In his last season, he averaged 11.2 points and Darren 6 assists, and when it seemed he could be a man coveted as backup point gu…
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John 15 v 7 " If you remain in union with me and my sayings remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will take place for you " Mark 11 v 24 This is why I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for, have faith that you have received them, and you will have them. Matthew 21 v 22 And all the things you ask in prayer, having faith, you will receive.” When did this stop and why ? Was it only for the 'Twelve' ? Was it only for the Anointed of the 1st Century ? The Governing Body say they are not inspired of God. But the Bible says the scriptures are inspired of God. So, when did this inspiration stop ? If the GB are, which they present …
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In Hebrews 3:5-6 notice how Paul refers to Moses (a most prominent member of the other sheep) when he says “Moses was faithful as an attendant in all the house of that One . . . but Christ was faithful as a son over God’s house. We are His house if, indeed, we hold on firmly to our freeness of speech and the hope of which we boast down to the end”. Moses was identified by Paul as a faithful “attendant” in God’s house while members of the anointed Christian congregation were identified as God’s “house” or temple. Today, members of the other sheep do not share in the new covenant mediated by Christ and are not a part of that spiritual house made up of anointed members belo…
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Jesus gave them signs to recognize when the Roman's would be there in the holy place.......they had to be aware of the first Roman invasion to know they must flee before the second invasion would come..... but both if you believe we must not look at signs...... it is all spiritual... Just take the first one : Babylon the great - I researched it years ago. Read book if Hosea - I quote just a verses from Hosea 1 & 2: " Jehovah said to Ho·seʹa: “Go, marry a woman of prostitution and have children of prostitution, because by prostitution the land has turned completely away from following Jehovah." (Then jehovah speaks of Israel as his wife who was n…
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You get much credit for this profound and obviously true statement. You lose it all for this stupid one. Of course they pay one. “Besides those things of an external kind, there is what rushes in on me from day to day, the anxiety for all the congregations. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I am not incensed?” 2 Corinthians 11:28 The greatest penalty is the one that we impose on themselves. To insist that this “penalty” was fully at work with Paul and NOT the Christian leadership of today is to impart motives and appoint yourself the judge. Didn’t you say that you were above such things? Ah...yes....here it is: I admire…
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Sometimes when people discuss religion or politics with someone, we are apt to wonder just how anyone can believe things that seem so crazy to us, while at the same time, the other person is wondering the same thing about our own beliefs. So I start this new thread on politics under a JW Club, because we are supposed to have a kind of love-hate relationship with the topic of politics. We stay neutral, but that's often just enough distance to get things wrong. And we stay alert for issues that might end up being of Biblical significance, so that most of us stay informed at least through mainstream news sources. However, there are other views far from the mainstre…
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KOLEK, Patricia A. (Tisby) KOLEK - Patricia A. (nee Tisby) Of North Tonawanda, Sunday, February 2, 2020. Passed away peacefully at home in the presence of her loving husband Harry Kolek after 56 years, of marriage; dearest Mom of Christine Kolek and Karen Kolek-Clapsadle; loving Grandma of Trevor J. (Krysta) Clapsadle and Alexis C. Clapsadle; also survived by her aunt Theresa Florek and many cousins. Patricia was a devout Jehovah's Witness. No prior visitation. Family will be present to greet relatives and friends SUNDAY, February 16th at Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's Witnesses, 7375 Nash Rd., North Tonawanda at 3:30 PM. Arrangements by the saber funeral home (6…
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You can be Jesus' friend. John 15:14 You are my friends if you do what I am commanding you. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, because I have made known to you all the things I have heard from my Father. And the previous verses prove that Jesus wishes that we are his disciples: John 15:4 Remain in union with me, and I will remain in union with you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in union with me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him, thi…
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What Does A Secret Database Kept By Jehovah’s Witnesses Reveal About Potential Sexual Abusers? 1 2
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The organization allegedly directed elders in all of its United States congregations to send detailed reports on members facing an allegation of sexually abusing a child to its headquarters. Since the late 1990s blue envelopes from Jehovah’s Witness congregations across the country have been sent to the organization’s headquarters. But, it’s the information inside those envelopes that contain damaging secrets. The blue envelopes contained detailed reports of members within the religion accused of child molestation. Officials scanned those documents into a database of files for each congregation, according to a sworn deposition by an official with The Watchtower…
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Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Russian Federation (Rosfinmonitoring) has included more than 200 innocent believers in the list of individuals involved in extremism and terrorism. They lose their jobs, business, pensions, bank accounts and even the opportunity to buy a SIM card or get insurance. https://jw-russia.org/en/news/2020/02/15.html
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JW Survey has obtained documents affirming that the Jehovah’s Witness headquarters in the United Kingdom has orchestrated a systematic takeover bid of all Kingdom Hall properties located in England, Scotland and Wales. In a letter dated November 8th, 2019, the London-based Kingdom Hall Trust announced that all UK congregations will dissolve their status as individual charities and become branches of the KHT. The Kingdom Hall Trust (KHT) is a Jehovah’s Witness legal corporation established in 1939 as the London Company of Kingdom Witnesses. On June 30, 1978, it was officially registered as a charity in the UK. In 1994, the name was changed to the Kingdom Hall …
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The Montana case has been re-filed! As of February 6th, 2020, plaintiffs Nunez and McGowan have re-filed their claim in Sanders county, where the original trial was held. I know I am going to get a lot of questions on this case so please be patient. To give you the short explanation, this case is being filed on the basis of willful negligence on the part of Thompson Falls elders, Watch Tower Pennsylvania, and Watchtower of New York. The original trial was predicated upon the decision by Judge Manley that Watchtower had broken Montana's mandatory reporting law. While we believe this to be correct, the Supreme Court decided that Watchtower was entitled…
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2006 - AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF U.N. RESOLUTION - A/RES/60/288 In September 2006 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a GLOBAL COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY resolution (A/RES/60/288). Although not a binding resolution, it was hailed as a landmark U.N. plan of action designed to enhance national, regional and international efforts to counter terrorism. (See page 1, 2 of 60/288) Please note that this resolution began to link the combating of religious intolerance, discrimination and defamation with counter-terrorist initiatives. Governments involved would report back to the U.N. on the progress made in regards to its implementation. In “Pi…
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The speaker’s wife gave one of the first comments at the Watchtower Study—on the very first paragraph. It sort of fit, since the theme was on making wise decisions and following through. Still, she ‘shoehorned’ it in a bit—it wasn’t a perfect fit. She said how she had not been manipulated to become one of Jehovah’s Witnesses—it had been her own choice and one that she did not regret. Well, who said that she had been manipulated?—that’s why the comment had an artificial flavor to it—the paragraph itself contained no hint of it. Furthermore, pushing the limits of the 30-second goal for comments, put in place so no one loquacious person steals the show, she found it the…
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It was announced that the Devil was going out of business and that he would offer all his tools for sale to whom ever would pay the price. On the night of the sale, they were all attractively displayed and marked with a price, even so, they were a bad looking lot: Malice, Hatred, Envy, Deceit, Jealousy and Sensuality and all the other implements of evil were spread out. Apart from the rest, lay a harmless looking wedge shaped tool. Much worn and priced higher than any of the others. Someone asked the Devil, "What is that?" That is "DISCOURAGEMENT", THE DEVIL REPLIED! "But why do you have it priced so high?", the prospective purchaser inquired. BECA…
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The rebel Luhansk People's Republic – which denies registration to many religious communities including all Protestants – threatens to cut off gas, electricity and water to places of worship belonging to unrecognised communities. The rebel authorities have allowed the only Catholic priest to return to the territory, but have not said if he can remain permanently or only for three months. In 2019 the rulers of the unrecognised self-declared Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) in eastern Ukraine cut off or threatened to cut off gas, electricity and water supplies to religious communities which had a recognised place of worship but which failed to gain registration under LP…
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At least 20 former Jehovah's Witnesses are suing the group over historical sexual abuse they say they suffered. The group has a policy of not punishing alleged child sex abuse unless a second person, alongside the accuser, has witnessed it - or an abuser confesses. It says its elders "comply with child-abuse reporting laws even if there is only one witness", though, and always tell police if a child is in danger. But one former elder said it had been failing to involve the authorities. Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51006771
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Dumbo Heights is going to pot. Cannabis marketing compliance technology platform Fyllo, which ensures advertising conforms to government regulations, has moved to its own space in Brooklyn’s Dumbo Heights. Chicago-based Fyllo had 10 employees in a co-working space at 55 Broad’s Bond Collective and will hire another 10 now that it’s in the new Brooklyn office. The 2,800-square-foot space is a penthouse carved out of a portion of the 12th floor at 77 Sands St. in Dumbo Heights. It includes private roof space. The building is one of several that belonged to the Jehovah’s Witnesses and were sold and renovated to attract tech companies. Fyllo was repre…
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Juan Pablo Martínez Vazquez es el nombre de la víctima de este negocio clandestino, quien era habitante de la misma localidad Este lunes 3 de febrero falleció el despachador del establecimiento que comerciaba gasolina de forma clandestina en Lamadrid, Coahuila, esto luego que desde el sábado cuando se registró un fuerte incendio en el sitio, luchará por su vida con apoyo de especialistas de una clínica de Monterrey, Nuevo León. Juan Pablo Martínez Vazquez es el nombre de la víctima de este negocio clandestino, quien era habitante de la misma localidad. La mañana de este lunes, el alcalde Andres Vazquez Garza quien dio a conocer que esta venta clandestina s…
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Two Jehovah’s Witnesses have been convicted of extremism in Russia’s Far East, the group said Tuesday amid what activists say is an escalating crackdown on the religious group. The ruling to hand the two worshippers in the Khabarovsk region a two-year suspended sentence comes after Russia’s Supreme Court declared the Jehovah’s Witnesses an “extremist” organization in 2017. A court found Jehovah’s Witnesses Nikolai Polevodov and Stanislav Kim guilty of membership in an extremist organization, the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia group said. Polevodov and Kim are also among six fellow believers currently awaiting a verdict on charges of organizing an extremist …
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Fifty Russian citizens have been awarded compensation totaling more than 1 million euros ($1.1 million) for police brutality and illegal searches, according to four European human rights court rulings issued Tuesday. Russia paid more than 600 million rubles ($9.5 million) to its citizens in compliance with European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rulings in 2019, officials said. Russia’s payouts over 20 years, they said, totaled 200 million euros. Three of the latest ECHR rulings award 29 Russian citizens 835,000 euros on claims of torture through electric shocks, needles in nails and beatings with truncheons, according to a tally by the MBKh News website. …
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Leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses have been told to pay £62,000 in damages to a former member who was raped after door-to-door visits. The woman was attacked 30 years ago by Mark Sewell after evangelising for the religious group near Cardiff. A "judicial committee" of the group's elders found the allegations against Sewell "not proven" in an internal inquiry in 1991. But High Court judge Mr Justice Chamberlain ruled in the her favour. Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-51316153 Mark Sewell was jailed in 2014 for raping the woman
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