Jehovah's Witnesses and the United Nations

[Micah Ong]

15 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

Talk about dishonest! 

Sect accused of hypocrisy over association with organisation it has demonised.

Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent
Oct 8, 2001 The Guardian

"The United Nations is being asked to investigate why it has granted associate status to the Jehovah's Witnesses, the fundamentalist US-based Christian sect, which regards it as the scarlet beast predicted in the Book of Revelation. Disaffected members of the 6m-strong group, which has 130,000 followers in the UK, have accused the Witnesses' elderly governing body of hypocrisy in secretly accepting links with an organisation that they continue to denounce in apocalyptic terms. The UN itself admitted yesterday that it was surprised that the sect, whose formal name is the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, had been accepted on its list of non-governmental organisations for the last 10 years."

guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,565199,00.html

Click Here for the chain of email correspondence between the Watchtower and Bates following the Guardian article.