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    The Librarian got a reaction from SuzA in Jehovah’s Witnesses Mobilize Global Response to Threat of Ban in Russia   
    You have a way with words @TrueTomHarley ;-)
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    The Librarian got a reaction from Carol Ann Torres in Sample Teach the Truth Presentation—Mt 6:10   
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    The Librarian got a reaction from Carol Ann Torres in Sample Kingdom Tract Return Visit—Isa 65:21-23   
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    The Librarian got a reaction from Carol Ann Torres in April 2017: Sample Awake! Presentation   
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    The Librarian got a reaction from volker in Brothers - Pay Attention To Your Dress   
    From a recent Watchtower article 
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    The Librarian reacted to Jack Ryan in Joseph Franklin Rutherford (aka "Judge Rutherford")   
    Would you have followed this man?
    Watchtower 1941 Sep 15 p.287 
    "Why, then, should a man who has the prospect before him of being of the great multitude now tie himself up to a stack of bones and a hank of hair?" (Applause)" This was a quote from J,F, Rutherford in a convention talk.
    Vindication I (1931) pp.156-157 
    "The women make monkeys or dupes of men. The men have become effeminate, soft and easily influenced, and have lost their real manhood and sturdiness in the affairs of state and home. For instance, when men are sitting at a table and a woman approaches, all the men arise and pay her homage and thereby elevate her to a place above men. The men remove their hats upon entering an elevator, if a woman is present; and these things are said to be acts of respect and to show that a man is a gentleman. But it is subtle, and the real meaning is much different from that. It is a scheme of Satan to turn men away from God and from his announced rule of the proper position of man and woman. The Lord has declared that no effeminate man shall inherit the kingdom of heaven. (1 Cor. 6:9) This proves that the scheme or habit of paying homage to women is not of God, but from the great enemy of God. It is a veneer of being a proper thing, and therefore it is more subtle than otherwise."
    Golden Age 1930 Apr 2 p.446 
    "Whether the identity of the sexes, as such, will be preserved, we do not know. There have been some well authenticated instances in which women have been transformed into men, and it is possible that this transformation may become general and we shall all be brothers together."

    Skip to 36:31
    Children of the King by JF Rutherford
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    The Librarian got a reaction from Bible Speaks in 440 million invitations   
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    The Librarian got a reaction from Melinda Mills in Jehovah’s Witnesses Mobilize Global Response to Threat of Ban in Russia   
    You have a way with words @TrueTomHarley ;-)
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    The Librarian reacted to TrueTomHarley in Jehovah’s Witnesses Mobilize Global Response to Threat of Ban in Russia   
    The trick will be to generate such worldwide publicity, to make every person aware, that for Putin to snuff out Jehovah’s Witnesses will be comparable to his strangling a cat on live TV. He may decide not to do it. He wants to be regarded as wise, as firm where necessary, but certainly not as an unhinged Kim Jong-un. 
    To be sure, he plays hardball when he has to, but he may come to realize that here he does not have to. What with Post Offices around the world being crushed with the volume of JW letters, likely from every Witness in the world, (to him or to one of his associates) everyone except the most disconnected may become aware of the situation soon to be decided by him. Will he want to be an international pariah? All our letters will be respectful, [except some seeded in by those religious enemies who want the ban to proceed] in sharp contrast to how he is usually portrayed in the West. 
    He may get fed up, not with us, but with the house church that is trying to feed him the line that jw.org is extremist, doing so for the purpose of taking out the competition. He may, on a night he cannot sleep, peruse jw.org, see that it plainly is not extremist, as every other nation in the world sees, and come to resent the house church that would have him look like a total ass on the world stage. In short, he may come to realize that, what with all the very real concerns facing his country, Jehovah’s Witnesses are not one of them.
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    The Librarian got a reaction from Carol Ann Torres in Brothers - Pay Attention To Your Dress   
    From a recent Watchtower article 
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    The Librarian reacted to bruceq in Local Jehovah's Witnesses congregations seek involvement in court proceedings   
    THIS IS FROM RUSSIA RELIGION NEWS
    Local Jehovah's Witnesses congregations seek involvement in court proceedings
    22 CRIMEAN JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ORGANIZATIONS SUBMIT DECLARATION TO RUSSIAN SUPREME COURT
    Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, 30 March 2017
     
    The Ministry of Justice is demanding to liquidate, find extremist, ban, and confiscate the buildings of all 396 registered organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, including 22 organizations in Crimea. For the 8,000 believers on the peninsula, who have professed their religion freely for decades, this news was completely unexpected.
     
    These 22 local religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in the republic of Crimea were registered on the initiative of Russian authorities in May 2015. Since then they have not received from the state any charges, fines, or warnings. Therefore they are extremely perplexed with regard to the initiative of the Ministry of Justice to ban them and to recognize them as extremist.
     
    Most disturbing is that the Ministry of Justice considered it possible to declare all these organizations outside the law—behind their back and without involving them in the case. The plaintiff's declaration—with much delay—was sent only to the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.
     
    For this reason, 22 Crimean local religious organizations filed in the Supreme Court a petition for involving them in the case in the capacity of an administrative co-defendant. They recall that in the Russian federation the right to judicial protection is among the basic inalienable rights. (tr. by PDS, posted 30 March 2017)

    Russia Religion News Current News Items
    A RUSSIAN ORTHODOX BISHOP HAS STATED THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT BAN THE WITNESSES BECAUSE THAT WOULD GIVE MORE ATTENTION TO THEM AND MORE PEOPLE WILL BECOME JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES.
    EVERYONE KEEP UP THE LETTER WRITING AND KEEP GIVING ATTENTION. DO NOT BE SILENT.. PRAISE JAH. http://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/170327b.html
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    The Librarian reacted to Guest-00 in Australasian Branch Visit 2017   
    This weekend, congregations from all around the Australasian Branch Zone will be attending a program that will be streamed to hundreds of congregations on Saturday and Sunday. Those attending on Saturday will be watching the live event. While those attending on the Sunday will experience the recording. The program is as follows:
    Music Video
    Song & Prayer
    Watchtower Summary
    Interviews/ Report (Updates on progress of Kingdom interests)
    Song & Announcements
    Special Talk - Brother Patrick LaFranca (Helper to the Personnel Committee)
    Song & Concluding Prayer
    (Approximately 2 hrs 40 minutes)
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    The Librarian reacted to TheWorldNewsOrg in Pension Crisis   
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    The Librarian reacted to Jack Ryan in Governing Body tells Russian Congregations to stop using the New World Translation   
    Google translate:
    The Christian Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses
    April 1, 2017
    TO ALL MEETINGS
    Theme: Using the Synodal Translation of the Bible in New Conditions
    Dear brothers!
    From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank you for your active participation in the campaign to write letters. Your participation in this campaign was a clear testimony of brotherly love in action (1 Peter 2:17). At the same time, we realize that the most important thing that we can do to support our brothers facing persecutions is to offer our prayers to Jehovah for them.(Read 1 Timothy 2: 1--4.)
    As already reported, the Ministry of Justice wants to impose a ban on the activities of the Christian congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. If the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decides to ban, this will negatively affect more than 175,000 of our brothers and sisters, on their honorable duty to carry God's words from door to door.
    Perhaps opponents think in this way to hinder the preaching work, but our main tool is the Bible, and we can participate even more diligently in the preaching work (1 Corinthians 15:58, Ephesians 6:17). Although the translation of the New World has helped us for many years to better understand the truth and carry the message of the Kingdom of God to other people, but in the new conditions that have arisen in Russia, we must start using the synodal translation of the Bible again.
    This is necessary to avoid accusations of distortion of God's word from the world of Satan and discourage our opponents until the verdict of the Supreme Court.
    Your brothers,
    A copy of the district overseers
    Note for coordinators of councils of elders.
    Please ensure that this letter is read at the next meeting on weekdays, and also at a weekend meeting. Do not post this
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    The Librarian got a reaction from ARchiv@L in 2017 Memorial Invitation   
    Add your 2017 Memorial photos to this gallery:
    https://www.theworldnewsmedia.org/gallery/category/13-2017-memorial/
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    The Librarian got a reaction from ARchiv@L in 2017 Memorial Invitation   
    We warmly invite you to attend the annual Memorial of Jesus’ death with us on Tuesday, April 11, 2017. A free Bible-based talk will explain how Jesus’ death can benefit you and your family.
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    The Librarian reacted to ARchiv@L in 2017 Memorial Invitation   
    DOWNLOAD:
    mipw17_E.pdf
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    The Librarian reacted to Lussier Denis in Russian authorities break into Kingdom Hall   
    Sur JW.ORG, les "instructions" étaient de ne -pas- écrire les noms de nos  frères et soeurs dans les lettres adrésées à la Russie pour leur sécurité.
    Merci Nicole de placer leur photos en ligne ! Ça va beaucoup les aider... 
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    On JW.ORG, the "instructions" were -not- to write the names of ours the brothers and sisters in the letters adored to Russia for their safety.
    Thank a lot Nicole for placing their pictures online ! It will help them a lot ...
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    The Librarian reacted to Melinda Mills in Russian authorities break into Kingdom Hall   
    Saw that video months ago.
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    The Librarian reacted to ARchiv@L in Russian authorities break into Kingdom Hall   
    ARE YOU SURE??
    Instructions for Letter-Writing Campaign
    https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/russia/jw-mobilize-global-response-to-threat-of-ban/
     

    have you seen the "instructions" ?
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    The Librarian got a reaction from ARchiv@L in 440 million invitations   
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    The Librarian reacted to ARchiv@L in 440 million invitations   
    THE Memorial invitation
    https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/memorial/
     
     

     

     
     

     
     
     
     
     
     
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    The Librarian reacted to ARchiv@L in Jehovah and the Spider   
    http://illustrationstoponder.blogspot.gr/2010/08/fwd-jehovah-and-spider.html

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