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The BBC television show Panorama had an episode in 2002 that featured the pedophilia problems within the Jehovah's Witness religion. They interviewed molestation survivors that went to the JW elders for help, only to be told that they did not have the required "two witnesses" that the religion demands and so were told not to call the police but to leave it "in Jehovah's hands".
They travel to America and speak to then governing body leader Ted Jaracz, who coldly tells them that the Witnesses do not "go beyond the things that are written", a quote from Paul in 1 Corinthians 4:6.
They learn that the Watchtower Organization has a secret database with over 23,000 entries containing both accused and convicted pedophiles associated with Jehovah's Witnesses.
- HollyW and Ann O'Maly
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At the La Vega Kingdom Hall, which is around 35 miles north west of Bogota, Columbia.
With a population of just under 50 million, there are some 165,000 active JWs in the country - a ratio of around 1-in-300.
They conduct around 220,000 studies each month, and with just under 24,000 regular pioneers, the country saw a 2% increase last year.
Last year's Memorial attendance was over half-a-million, which means 1-in-100, or 1%, of the country attended.
Street view of the outside of the Kingdom Hall:
https://goo.gl/maps/4wXAFcxGfRB2
Remember, the video below is in Spanish,
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6b33RjKq_HFMVduTGJsbnhZM3c/view?usp=sharing
See translation bellow.
Dear brothers:
We are glad to inform you about our next preaching campaign for the 2017 service year, in order to help spread the message of the good news "to the ends
of the earth "(Rom. 10:18). This is the only preaching campaign for the 2017 service year.
Duration: The campaign will last one year, from 1 September 2016 to 31 August 2017.
The minimum time to participate is three weeks and up to three months.
Territory: congregations in need and unallocated territories.
Support a congregation: Choose this option if you wish to support a congregation
that needs help to preach their territory.
Unassigned territory: choose this option who wish to preach territories not
assigned to a congregation. Because this are territories where usually there is no witnesses
, it will be necessary for teams to be prepared to hold meetings and organize
preaching.
Must choose at least five options of the List of Territories, of which the branch will decide which one the group will support. Request the list from the secretary of the congregation. In the case of
Mexico alone may request congregations or territories within the country, can not support other
countries. Precursors of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and
Panama may request any country.
Participants: Participants who serve as regular or auxiliary pioneers and have
18 years or more during the period they support. As an exception, parents can take their children
small if the conduct of these is exemplary. Although they can participate single and married, the
married must be accompanied by their spouse, and both should serve as pioneers.
Groups. They must form groups of at least two people and ten at most, in the
including a captain. We will not accept requests from groups made entirely of single pioneers where there is both genders (Clarifcation note by STA.. no single ladies mixed up with single dudes unless there is someone to watch them). If there are more than ten requests from the same group, they must form a separate group with their own captain.
Because no individual applications will be accepted, they can form the group with brothers of their congregation or other congregations
Subject: Preaching Campaign 2017
August 29, 2016
Page 2
Request: If there is an elder or ministerial servant in the group, he will be the captain. He
will ask the Secretary the form "Request for preaching campaign", he will complete and deliver to your committee
Service for analysis and approval. If there is no male, an experienced sister can be used. The application must be submitted to the Secretary at least three months before the
date wishing to start their participation. Only one application with master data will be filled,
other members of the group should not fill.
Assignment. Later, the branch will inform the congregation of their assingment and the contact address for the congregation in the assinged territory. This way you can communicate with the elders of
that congregation to provide him with details on how to reach the territory, customs in
location, common problems and potential risks.
Accommodation: transportation and other expenses. It is the responsibility of the group look for accommodation
in their assignment. This will be particularly necessary for those who support unassigned territories,
because they are far from a congregation. They should have sufficient resources to cover its
transportation costs, rent and meals during their assignment. For more details, consult the
FAQ document on the campaign to be placed on the bulletin board next
with this letter.
We trust that the Lord will bless this campaign and the dedicated efforts made by
people take the good news to your location. The aim is that the name of Jehovah "is
declared throughout all the earth "before the end comes (Rom. 9:17).
Receive our Christian love and best wishes
P.D.: to the body of elders
This letter should be read en in the Christian Life and Ministry Meeting. It should be then put in the information board along with the list of territories and FAQ so that publishers can consult it (Except this postdata). All requests should be sent at least 3 months in advance. If the service committee aproves of a group, inform the captain that he should make a request for all required publications for the whole group thru the congregation. At the same time. the secretary should send the form "Request for preaching campaign" using the congregation's email from JW.ORG. If the pioneers want to know about preaching in other countries in Central America, please thank them for their good initiative but inform them that this year, due to certain migratory procedures, brothers from Mexico will only be able to support this country (Mexico). It would not be possible to assign them to another country.
PD: to circuit overseers
We ask you to please help boost enthusiasm and interest in this campaign when you visit congregations.
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Wall v Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2016 ABCA 255 (CanLII)
In the Court of Appeal of Alberta
Citation: Wall v Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, 2016 ABCA 255
Date: 20160908
Docket: 1501-0120-AC
Registry: Calgary
Between:
Randy Wall
Respondent
(Applicant)
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Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses (Vaughn Lee - Chairman and Elders James Scott Lang and Joe Gurney) and the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
Appellants
(Respondents)
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The Court:
The Honourable Madam Justice Marina Paperny
The Honourable Madam Justice Patricia Rowbotham
The Honourable Mr. Justice Thomas W. Wakeling
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Memorandum of Judgment of the Honourable Madam Justice Paperny
and the Honourable Madam Justice Rowbotham
Dissenting Memorandum of Judgment of the Honourable Mr. Justice Wakeling
Appeal from the Order by
The Honourable Mr. Justice Earl C. Wilson
Dated the 16th day of April, 2015
Filed on the 24th day of April, 2015
(Docket: 1401 10225)
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Memorandum of Judgment
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The Majority:
I. Introduction
[1] The respondent was expelled from the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. He filed an originating application for judicial review of that decision. A chambers judge concluded that the Court of Queen’s Bench had jurisdiction to hear the application. The Congregation (and its Judicial Committee and named Elders) appeal. The appellants also apply to strike parts of the respondent’s authorities and the respondent applies for permissions to adduce new evidence.
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Ebina assembly hall, where the Japan’s branch office is located,
need to be fixed all over inside, but they have no money
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BTW, one of the photos currently on rotation at the front page of jw.org is:
Marburg, Germany - Discussing the Bible’s message of hope near a refugee camp
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I was sixteen when he raped me. I got pregnant, and my parents told me I had to marry him. My dad was an elder—a leader in our community of Jehovah’s Witnesses—and everything in my life seemed very black and white. I knew what was expected of me, and I knew I had to date and marry someone of the same faith.
I remember that conversation with my father. He told me I should not have put myself in that situation, and that I had to marry Kevin. Abortion was not an option. I was still a Witness at the time, and I believed that if I got an abortion I would go to hell, and there would be no way to redeem myself.
So we went to the courthouse and got married. I stayed for two years, and I got pregnant again. I had my second child, and when she was six months old, I packed up my car in the middle of the night and I drove us all to a homeless women’s shelter. And that was the first time in over two years that I felt I could breathe.
My parents didn’t speak to me. I was excommunicated from our community and forbidden from contacting any members of our church. I was completely alone—all the people I’d ever known and loved had banished me from their lives.
I stayed in the shelter for six months, and then a friend took us in for about a year. My mom and dad reached out to me after that and said that they wanted to be a part of the kids’ lives. We moved in with them, but my dad didn’t speak to me—and hasn’t since. It’s been over fifteen years.
My ex was a very violent man. While we were married, he repeatedly beat me. I’d call my mom and she would take the kids while I went to the hospital. She saw me like that—like a bruised stray animal, scared and in tatters—but she never asked me if I needed help. I put a restraining order against my ex when we were finalizing the divorce, and I guess it wasn’t really a surprise when my mom came forward in court and claimed that she’d seen Kevin molest our oldest child.
Kevin ended up getting supervised visitation, but shortly after the divorce, he completely disappeared from our lives. He hasn’t seen his kids since and obviously that’s for the best. But I never made peace with what my mother said in court: if she did see my ex-husband molesting our son, then why hadn’t she said anything earlier?
Was she lying now? In her twisted world, did she feel that she was finally doing something to help me and my children? On the other hand, she’d seen the way he beat me and she hadn’t said anything about that, either. Was she trying to redeem herself by confessing something that would break open the family that she and my father had insisted upon?
I don’t know. My gut tells me that I don’t trust her. She believes in the Bible above all, yet she turns a blind eye when someone is hurting her daughter—her own blood. This seems so contradictory, so twisted. She told me to stay with Kevin and God would reward me for my pain and suffering when I returned in the new life. But why is it not okay for me to leave someone who hurt me? And why does the Bible trump the welfare of your own child?
It feels like it’s been a lifetime since everything happened. Both of my children have graduated from high school now. I graduated too—I got my GED, then I went to college, and then I put myself through grad school. It seems like I should be a different person, like I should move on. But I can’t—I yearn for my parents to tell me that they were wrong—to acknowledge the effect that their decision had on my life. I yearn for them to see me as their child, and not some foreign object, some pariah.
I could have been so much more. My life could have been so different. I could maybe wake up every morning not feeling that I am broken, that I am unwanted, that I am a victim, that I am less than, that my existence is futile, that I am a liar and a fake… I wonder what it would be like to feel comfortable—to feel that my soul has settled.
I wonder what it’s like to trust people, too. I trust no one. It’s hard to get close to people and to experience joy, but I’ve known nothing different. I think that it’s naïve and gullible to believe that people are good. I don’t think they are—I think people’s morality and goodness is totally circumstantial and mercurial. At the end of the day, I think the only God people serve is the self. And, sadly, “I love you” means nothing to me—they’re just words that are tossed around casually.
And what will my children think of me when I tell them about my past? What will they think of their grandparents? How will they view the world when something they’d taken for granted—that they were the product of a consensual relationship—turns into the ugly truth? I don’t know what that does to young children, and I don’t know how it disfigures their future. But I know that I don’t want to do to my kids what my parents did to me—I don’t want to be the reason for my children’s unhappiness.
http://qz.com/762564/craigslist-confessional-i-was-sixteen-when-he-raped-me/
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10 hours ago, runtifus said:
Why would you allow and use someone's video's who says to "Avoid Jehovah's Witnesses" ? I was excited to view this until I saw it came from someone called Avoid Jehovah's Witnesses? What's up with this?
Thank you
For the same reason all the little JW kids watch Lion King and enjoy Elton John sing "circle of life" despite the fact that he is a flaming homosexual.
At some point I could ask you "Why would you be on the Internet itself when Watchtower for years proclaimed it as a dangerous place to be?" Shouldn't you heed the advice of the Governing Body of 1999?
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How would you argue? I see them both in this forum under the "Christian" category.
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From the Mercury, Tasmania, Australia
A 51-YEAR-OLD Jehovah’s Witness man introduced to hard drugs by fellow Alcoholics Anonymous attendees has pleaded guilty to administering crystal methamphetamine to a child.
The Supreme Court heard that Glenn John Austen, formerly of New Town, befriended the complainant, who was then 16 years old, in Hobart’s Franklin Square last year.
Crown Prosecutor Yolanda Prence said that on February 11 this year, the complainant was consuming alcohol and smoking cannabis at Austen’s residence when she told him she needed “a whack” of crystal methamphetamine, or ice.
Austen left the unit, returning a short time later with a sachet containing a “point” of ice.
When the girl — who the court heard was already a “seasoned” intravenous drug user — asked Austen for assistance, he inserted the needle of her syringe into her left arm and injected the contents.
Struck with immediate guilt, Austen walked to the nearest police station to confess.
Ms Prence said the Crown accepted that the girl had used drugs intravenously before, and that the incident would not have come to light if Austen had not gone to the police.
Defence lawyer Robert Fisher told the court his client had been cast out of his Jehovah’s Witness congregation after revealing his battle with alcohol.
Mr Fisher said that the defendant was ashamed and remorseful.
Justice Brett bailed Austen for sentence on September 9.
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Future.....is a concept in and of itself.
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Kelsey Lu: "I was very particular about what kind of dresses I would wear and want. They had to be what I call 'spin around' dresses, and if I spun around and they made that wave, then it was a go. It was definitely a go."
Memories of family thrifting excursions — trips that helped solidify her personal style — are wistful accounts of unearthing overlooked treasures.
http://www.vogue.com/13469713/afropunk-kelsey-lu-festival-style-churches-dev-hynes-molly-goddard/
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PDF's of Ray Franz' two books he authored: (These links were shared on another forum)
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- Jehovah's Witness elder was convicted of child sex offences last year
- Richard Hill is back working with children for the religious group
- Female cousin told investigators he abused her in 1981 when she was six
- There are claims he is now door-knocking homes alongside children
- His father-in-law is reportedly the senior elder at the local church
A Jehovah's Witness church patriarch convicted for paedophilia is working alongside children again in Melbourne.
The allegations were made against Richard Hill by his cousin over sexual offences dating back to 1981 when she was aged six.
Hill was found guilty last year but says police are aware of where he works and that he is permitted to do so, according to a report in The Age newspaper.
He is reportedly undertaking door-knocks along with young members of the church.
According to Mr Hill's cousin Melissa Buchanan, he is again working at the church which is run by his family. He was last year found guilty of sexually assaulting Ms Buchanan in 1981 when she was just aged six
The publication claims that Hill's father-in-law is in charge of the movement's Kingdom Hall at Plenty, about 20 kilometres north-east of Melbourne.
'I pleaded not guilty to all charges but we decided not to keep going because of mental stress on my family and the costs,' Hill told The Age.
'I spent over $100,000 defending myself in the courts. You get to a point where you turn the other cheek and walk away. I am definitely not guilty.'
The allegations of abuse from 35 years ago were brought against him by relative Melissa Buchanan - investigators were told they had been living in the same home at the time when he entered her room after showering wearing only a towel.
Ms Buchanan, 41, was then forced to sit on his lap and told to be quiet as he sexually abused her.
The victim - who is no longer part of the church and has been shunned for deciding to leave - says the incident was kept quiet by her family in an attempt to protect theirs and the church's reputation.
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Theme: The Bible and the Divine Name.
3 Dramas and 2 Dramatic Bible Readings.
Friday: Drama entitled "Jehovah you alone are God.” It will be about the life of King Asa.
Friday afternoon’s Dramatic Bible Reading is based on Matthew.
On Friday, 2 publications: New to 650 countries, the revised 2013 Bible Teach book. Along with the simplified version What Can the Bible Teach Us? in Spanish.
The English already have the book What Can the Bible Teach Us?, so their new publication on Friday will be the video they saw that morning about King Asa.
Saturday: Morning will see a drama entitled: Jehovah’s Great Name. This drama explains the life of King Josiah and how he made Jehovah's name manifest.
The second Dramatic Bible Reading will be based on the book of Nehemiah when he has to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
Saturday for everyone world wide, we’ll be shown a book that will be used during the Congregation Bible Study:Jehovah's organization behind the name
Sunday: A Drama set in modern times entitled Families: Are you walking in the ways of God’s Great Book? Where we are presented with a family that has 2 children. One is a regular pioneer, and the other is a businessman but not a witness. The drama will be based on valuing the Bible.
Sunday 43 languages (including Spanish) the New Songbook with the Revised Bible will be released. Plus a video, downloadable from the site, with instructions on how to use the Bible in preaching and personal study.
At the end, the last talk on Sunday will be Video of a Governing Body member and talk is entitled: A precious gift.
And the grand finale... A new cartoon series will be presented entitled: Become Jehovah’s Friend.
(Lesson 1) Where we will see Caleb as an adolescent.