It's Tuesday Morning 16 May 2017!.....
Australia: Royal commission has led to more than 100 child abuse prosecutions
The Guardian, 15 May 2017
Royal commission has led to more than 100 child abuse prosecutions, says head
The head of the royal commission into child sexual abuse, Justice Peter McClellan, has referred 2,025 incidents of abuse to authorities since 2013, provoking 127 prosecutions to date.
The commissioners have held more than 6,700 private sessions for survivors of institutional abuse.
To date, the commission has analysed the information from 6,302 of those private sessions, and McClellan will for the first time reveal the breakdown of institutions in which those survivors were abused.
Nine per cent reported abuse in an Anglican institution; 4% in a Salvation Army institution; 3% in an other Protestant institution; 2% in a Presbyterian and Reformed churches institution; 1.3% in a Uniting Church institution; 1% in a Jehovah’s Witness institution; 0.6% in a Baptist church; 0.5% in a Pentecostal churches’ institution; 0.4% in a Churches of Christ institution, 0.4% in a Seventh Day Adventist institution, and 0.3% in a Lutheran church institution.READ MORE: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6becl3/arc_commissioner_justice_mcclelland_warns/
UK: Man faces trial accused of harassing JWs
The Daily Express, 15 May 2017
Man faces trial accused of harassing Jehovah's Witnesses
A 66-year-old Gloucester man is to stand trial in July for alleged religious harassment of two Jehovah's Witnesses.
Angelo Famiglietti, of Bloomfield Terrace, Gloucester is accused of religiously aggravated behaviour and using threatening words and behaviour towards the Jehovah's Witnesses because of their faith on May 3 and May 9.
He denies both charges.
Prosecuting Jane Cooper told Cheltenham Magistrates Court that one charge alleges he stood near to a Jehovah's Witness stand on the Cross in Gloucester City Centre on May 3 holding up a newspaper with the headline “Paedophile Jehovah's Witnesses”.
READ MORE: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6bcmdc/in_uk_you_cant_publicly_hold_up_a_newspaper_with/
An Apostate's Public Talk at the Kingdom Hall
15 May 2017
Talk starts at 38:20 - first five minutes is audio only, then video/audio for the rest of talk - the first part of the video below is a 'postmortem discussion.'
READ MORE: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6bgfbx/remember_the_post_about_an_apostate_giving_the/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiNLUSFBxVU
WT: Public Reading of Study Material at Congregation Meetings (Footnotes)
14 May 2017
TO ALL BODIES OF ELDERS - May 14, 2017 - Re: Public Reading of Study Material at Congregation Meetings
Material in Footnotes, Endnotes, Parentheses, and Brackets: Footnotes and endnotes should not be read by the assigned paragraph reader. The conductor should decide to what extent the thought in a footnote or an endnote should be included in the discussion. After the paragraph has been read, the conductor might choose to have someone in the audience read the footnote or endnote or he might choose to ask for a comment on it. In some cases, he may choose not to refer to it at all.
READ MORE: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6bakdu/may_14_2017_to_all_bodies_of_elders_re_public/Previous WT direction was: Kingdom Ministry September 1996, page 7
Question Box: What should be kept in mind regarding reading the paragraphs at the meetings?
Read the Material as Printed: Footnotes as well as information in parentheses or brackets are ordinarily read aloud if they clarify the printed text. The only exceptions are references that simply identify source material. A footnote should be read where it is referred to in the paragraph, prefacing it by stating: “The footnote reads . . .” After reading it, simply continue with the rest of the paragraph.
Germany: Vice asks a JW ten questions
Vice, 15 May 2017
Vice asks a JW ten questions.... (via Google Translate)
We meet Melanie in the kingdom hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, a barren room, a row of chairs on a row of chairs, a lectern on a small stage. As in a church it does not look. Only posters with psalms in four languages reveal that the hall for the people here is a religious place.
1: How does it feel to stand on the street and know many people find freaky what you're doing?
2: Is it at all an efficient way to convince people of your faith by standing on the street?
3: How many people are talking to you at all?
4: Are you sometimes cursed at work?
5: Do you despise non-believers?
6: Will God destroy me because I do not believe in him?
7: You do not celebrate your birthday. Do you sometimes celebrate secretly?
8: When were you finally able to do something because you are a Jehovah's Witness?
9: How much money do you spend every month in the community?
10: When do you expect the sunset?
READ MORE (German): https://www.vice.com/de/article/10-fragen-an-eine-zeugin-jehovas-die-du-dich-niemals-getraut-haettest-zu-stellen
READ MORE (Google Translate): https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fde%2Farticle%2F10-fragen-an-eine-zeugin-jehovas-die-du-dich-niemals-getraut-haettest-zu-stellen