Several weeks ago I asked a lot of you here about the involvement with the UN. You were really helpful in your replies. Thank you.
I approached an Elder who I know is "up" on that sort of thing and guess what... he had no idea!
His son works in Bethel so he took what info I had found : The original article in the guardian, (which can be found on their archive site) an email I recieved from the DPI confirming that the WBTS was a member for ten years, and also a print of the FAQ's about the DPI and it's involvement with the UN which quite plainly states that anyone associated with the DPI has to follow the UN charter and also promote the UN and it's work.
I waited.... and waited... and finally last week he came back to me and said that no one in Bethel that his son had asked knew anything about the information that came directly from the FAQ's. However he has said that if I bring more copies to him he'll sit down with me and we'll write a letter to Bethel including all the information and see what comes back. This particular Elder is a genuine man and I trust him. He even admitted that it certainly looks like they've been caught with their trousers down.
He started, at first, to say how the Un has many offshots (ie. UNESCO, WHO etc) but he must have seen my face because he admitted that evenso it all "comes under the UN umbrella still".
Well, it seems as if it still goes on... I'm just so interested to hear their reply... I know a lot of you have already written... spoke to them... but I wanted to see what the'ir reply would be to someone who is still attending meetings. (It was interesting when I phoned Bethel that I was asked if I'm a Sister. I said I was, but I wonder what reply I would have got if I'd said no... hum... might try that if I get time.)
I'm going to do all this Thursday, but having said that the particular elder I choose is rather hit and miss at attending meetings because his mother-in-law is very ill at the moment. Anyway, it should be interesting to see how long they take to reply and what they say in reply.
If anyone is interested I'll post their reply here.