I'm currently reading CoC and I'm in the 5th chap. but I read in the book about the IBSA being a "corporation" of the WTS, are they still considered a part of it? I went to the IBSA website and it had a link about charities that the IBSA donates too and it listed 2 kingdom halls and 2 assembly halls as receivers of the donations. So if the IBSA is still a part or rather "corporation" of the WTS and they just have "similiar" beliefs but not the same beliefs, why does the WTS accept money from them? I take that question back they want money from anyone, but why isn't published anywhere that the IBSA is still a part of the WTS in London or is that another one of their big secrets?
Is the International Bible Students Association still a part of Watchtower?
by Sweetp0985 9 Replies latest watchtower bible
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blondie
w83 2/15 p. 10 A Notable Annual Meeting ***
The secretary also announced that the Canadian Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs had, on July 22, 1982, approved a new Canadian corporation for Jehovah?s Witnesses called the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Canada. This will end some of the confusion created when the IBSA name is used in dealings with the public. The new corporation will have a membership of up to 100, with 7 directors on its board.
*** w01 1/15 p. 29 How the Governing Body Differs From a Legal Corporation ***The Pennsylvania corporation is not the only legal entity used by Jehovah?s Witnesses. There are others. One is the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Incorporated. It facilitates our work in the United States. Jehovah?s blessing has clearly been upon that corporation, though its directors and officers have been mainly of the "other sheep." The International Bible Students Association is used in Britain.
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RR
The International Bible Students Association was incorporated by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 in the
For years, ALL three names, Watch Tower of PA Watchtower of NY and IBSA were on the literature as publishers. This no longer seems to be the case. The IBSA is no longer listed. The Watchtower continues to keep the name, I believe to spite the original International Bible Students who still exist today promoting the theology of Charles Taze Russell.
It should be noted that the Watchtower uses different names in different countries. Some under the name Watchtower, but most under the name o Jehovah?s Witnesses. A few examples:
1. Asociación Cultural Rioplatense (
2. Association of Jehovah?s Witnesses in the
3. Association of Jehovah?s Witnesses of East Africa
4. Association of Jehovah?s Witnesses of Mozambique
5. Association of Jehovah?s Witnesses of Tanzania
6. Association of Jehovah?s Witnesses of
7. International Bible Students Association:
8. Jehovah?s Witnesses Association in
9. Jehovah?s Witnesses of South Africa
10. Jehovah?s Witnesses of the Solomon Islands Trust Board
11. L?Association Chrétienne les Témoins de Jéhovah d?Haiti
12. La Torre del Vigía ()
13. Los Testigos de Jehová en México
14. Publishers of the Theocracy ()
15. Religious Association of Jehovah?s Witnesses
16. Religious Association of Jehovah?s Witnesses in
17. Religious Organization of Jehovah?s Witnesses in
18. São Tomé and Príncipe
19. Wachtturm-Gesellschaft ()
20. Bible and Tract Society ()
As started in another thread, there I a Watchtower Society in , and other States.
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peacefulpete
It's a money laundering front. They charge the WT to house and feed volunteers, and spend millinos on literature to in turn pretend to be acharity and give it free to congregations. This effectively makes tens of millions of dollars each year disappear from the books.
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XQsThaiPoes
IBSA was also a grey market name. Sometimes just the letters were used.
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Sweetp0985
Thanks RR,
When you go to the bottom and type in just Jehovah you come to this:
Dalston Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses Dudley Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses East Pennine Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Manchester Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses So IBSA is just a legal corporation that WTS uses to make more money right, and because it wasn't making enough money they shut it down??????
Sorry but I'm on a limited budget to order the information that they will have faxed to me in under an hour. I got enough information already to know that these links are people that must regularly take donations from the IBSA. Laundering money is about right and then with the big Jimmy Swaggart/Donation Basis "TAX EVASION" I guess Jehovah is telling them to do this since they are his mouthpiece right?
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XQsThaiPoes
Actually the vague companies like IBSA was use as a front to legaly print in open lands then smuggle the litterature into banned lands. If they are closing down these fronts it may mean like I speculated they are no longer going to try to break into banned markets and they will just sustain who ever is already there.
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peacefulpete
Did you notice the huge monies that gets concealed claiming the Branch is charging them for the literature and how they in turn call it a charity to give it free to the congregations? Read then observer link I provided.