While the 2019 Service Report seems to indicate that there is on-going growth in the Organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses, there is shocking news out of Canada to indicate that the figures have been cooked and in fact the organization is shrinking far faster than anyone had imagined.
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2017-09-01 Letter to the BOE in Australia
A new policy letter dated September 1, 2017 covering child abuse in the Organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses has just been released to the Bodies of Elders in Australia. At the time of this writing, we do not yet know if this letter represents a worldwide policy...
Fake News
One has to be very careful what one accepts as true in these days of social media news. While the term "fake news" is often misapplied due to the tweets of one particular man, there is a lot of real "fake news" out there. Sometimes, a satirical piece can be confused...
Trouw Article: Among the Jehovah’s, the Group Comes before the Individual
This third article from the Trouw Dutch daily newspaper is written in the form of an interview. You can read the original here. Among the Jehovah’s, the Group Comes before the Individual The way Jehovah’s Witnesses handle abuse is traumatic for the victims, according...
Trouw Article: A Paradise for Pedophiles
This is a translation of the July 22, 2017 article in Trouw, a Dutch newspaper, which is one in a series of articles reporting on the way Jehovah's Witnesses handle child sexual abuse. Click here to see the original article. A Paradise for Pedophiles The way...
Trouw Article: “Elders Are Investigators, Judges, and Psychologists”
This is a translation of the July 21, 2017 article in Trouw, a major Dutch newspaper, concerning what is expected of Jehovah's Witnesses elders when handling cases of child sexual abuse. This is the first of a series of articles exposing the poor way that the...
BBC: UK JWs Accused of Destroying Documents
Is the UK branch office of Jehovah’s Witnesses guilty of a crime by destroying documents which the court has ordered be preserved?