This will move more and more people to try to follow "webcast" program...
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Major changes to convention security beginning in 2017
by Edison Trent inshort info on interesting changes to the major conventions this year: there will be a new security concept that will be implemented at all regional conventions in 2017.. similar to other major events (e.g.
festivals, concerts), there will be admittance controls in stadiums.. - at each entrance, there will be a massive presence of attendants that look at each visitor.. - there will be pocket checks at the entrance.. - suspicious persons are no longer left on the convention grounds.. - suppliers to the stadium will be intensively inspected by attendants.. - there will be a special sign for attendants that must enter the stadium before 7.30 am.
all others (even all attendants) can only enter after 7.30 am..
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Why Don’t Jehovah’s Witnesses Respond to All Accusations Made Against Them? FROM WEBSITE
by NikL inyou could fertilize your garden with this shite.... https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/respond-to-accusations/.
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Oh my Gosh... cannot read it... it is really bullshit !
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Bringing Abuse to Light, London. Reporting from Spain, Dr. Guillém Sánchez (El Periodico de Catalunya) London talk
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://abusostj.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/bringing-abuse-to-light-london-reporting-from-spain-dr-guillem-sanchez-el-periodico-de-catalunya/.
bringing abuse to light, london.
reporting from spain, dr. guillém sánchez (el periodico de catalunya).
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Thanks for sharing it Barbara
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Spain : Two new articles regarding Reveal Abuse London event and Candace Conti interview
by sp74bb inhttp://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/sociedad/cerco-internacional-a-la-ocultacion-de-abusos-a-menores-de-los-testigos-de-jehova-6009083.
international siege to conceal child abuse in jehovah's witnesses.
a meeting in london weaves alliances to denounce the parallel justice of the religious organization.
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I met Candace and other survivors. Their experiences are very strong and emotional.
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Spain : Two new articles regarding Reveal Abuse London event and Candace Conti interview
by sp74bb inhttp://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/sociedad/cerco-internacional-a-la-ocultacion-de-abusos-a-menores-de-los-testigos-de-jehova-6009083.
international siege to conceal child abuse in jehovah's witnesses.
a meeting in london weaves alliances to denounce the parallel justice of the religious organization.
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So true, she deserves a prize for this. I met her personally in London. Such an very upbuilding experience...
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Spain : Two new articles regarding Reveal Abuse London event and Candace Conti interview
by sp74bb inhttp://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/sociedad/cerco-internacional-a-la-ocultacion-de-abusos-a-menores-de-los-testigos-de-jehova-6009083.
international siege to conceal child abuse in jehovah's witnesses.
a meeting in london weaves alliances to denounce the parallel justice of the religious organization.
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International Siege to Conceal Child Abuse in Jehovah's Witnesses
A meeting in London weaves alliances to denounce the parallel justice of the religious organization
GUILLEM SÀNCHEZ / LONDRES
MONDAY, MAY 1, 2017 - 20:18 CEST
"We do not want to overthrow the Watchtower [ shortened name with the so-called Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses located in the United States], but rather denounce that this religious organization has a policy that does a lot of harm " Says Trey Bundy , a CIR (Center of Investigating Reporting) journalist who has spent the last three years of his life investigating this creed.
From left to right, journalist Trey Bundy and victims of abuse in Jehovah's Witnesses Debbie McDaniel, Candance Conti and Nick French in London.
Bundy has launched an international meeting of lawyers , police officers , activists , victims and journalists - from 9 different countries - Which have contributed to reveal what is happening within this organization. EL PERIÓDICO, the daily that has uncovered the main cases that are known in Spain, has been the only Spanish medium invited to the day, held on 27 April.
"Jehovah's Witnesses continue to publicly denounce the cases of pederasty within their congregations," Bundy recalled at the beginning of the meeting. That is why it was necessary to "take a step further" to connect professionals from different backgrounds who can continue to work more coordinated to make that change.
INDECTIVE GOVERNMENTS
To date, only the Australian Government has thoroughly investigated this organization . The Royal Commission concluded that within the Australian Witnesses' community of 68,000 parishioners, more than 1,000 child abuses had been silenced during the past 60 years.
In England the Charity Commission was ordered to inspect the Witnesses, who appealed the decision until the Supreme Court dismissed it definitively, at which time the organization gave orders to destroy sensitive documentation. Russia has been more expeditious in the opposite direction, which has just banned this organization. Spain , for the moment, has not moved tab.
The US government has also shown no "interest" in acting, Bundy remembers. And in the courts, the organization has opted to "pay millionaire fines" to disobey the rulings of magistrates who have ordered them to file documentation on pedophilia cases. "They do not respect the laws of men," said Irwin Zalkin , an American lawyer who has filed several civil suits against this confession during his speech in London.
PUBLISH THE ABUSE FILE
Throughout the world there are over eight million Jehovah's Witnesses . Only in Spain there are over 100,000 . It is a pyramidal organization that beats the dictates of the Watchtower of the United States. This is demonstrated by the letters that this dome sends to the elders of the entire planet (the elders are the leaders of each of the congregations) and, among other things, contain instructions to silence all cases of sexual abuse of minors in their community .
The letters that were sent to the Spanish congregations, published by this newspaper , are simple translations of the original ones, written in English. One of these missives ordered in 1997 to create an internal file of pederastia cases . He had to write a "complete report" of every sexual abuse of minors detected within him.
Attorney Zalkin explains that, in the courts, the Watchtower chose first to "deny" the existence of this file. They later acknowledged that it existed but explained that because of the fact that there are 14,000 congregations in the United States, it would take "20 years" to gather and order all the information. Later, after admitting also that the information had been digitized and indexed, they responded to the judge that " they were not going to deliver the documents ".
" We are tired, " says Bundy , who has personally interviewed " nearly 300 people" who have been abused or who have contacted him because they know a victim who is afraid to speak personally. Until this database that they hide is not published and does not appear the real size of the problem, "the American Government will not force the Watchtower to change its policy," he reflects.
In London it was again verified, in contrasting the papers from different countries, that the policy followed by the respective congregations is accurate because it is a multinational governed with an iron hand from the United States. Consequently, the damage that this policy literally inflicts on the Bible provokes in its Spanish believers are painfully similar to the rest of the world: because it coerces victims of abuse, breaks families or chases homosexuals .
FAMILIES DESTROYED BY FAITH
Debbie McDaniel , Candance Conti and Nick French , three former child abuse abusers, explained in the English capital that the worst thing was the price they had to pay for asking for help outside the organization. Jehovah's Witnesses hold judicial hearings - on the fringes of state laws - through which they judge their members, impose punishments, and ultimately end in an expulsion . Witnesses are prohibited from maintaining contact with expelled persons.
For McDaniel , behind this policy, hides a strategy to " perpetuate " the organization. It has the dual objective of isolating dissenters to avoid awakening the rest, on the one hand, and deter those who feel the urge to report, on the other. "It is emotional violence," Bundy explains, because he condemns social exile to the exiles, since the bonds with the 'outside', a domain of Satan as taught to them from an early age, are almost non-existent. "Many expelled end up making the decision to try to be readmitted after a few years, because they want to recover their soul and return to talk with their family."
"THE PLACE INDICATED TO INVESTIGATE"
Mike Rezendes , a Boston Globe reporter who investigated child abuse by Catholic priests in Boston - a Pulitzer Prize-winning news story that has been shot to the spotlight with the title 'Spotlight' The meeting, compared the " conspiracy of silence " that occurred in the past within the Church with what is still happening "currently" within the Jehovah's Witnesses. "It seems the right place to investigate," he said.
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Candance Conti: "In denouncing the abuses I suffered in the Witnesses, I lost my family"
The young woman of California obtained in 2012 the first great judicial victory against the hidden pederasty in the religious organization
Candance Conti during her interview with THE PERIODIC at the ACE Hotel in London.
GUILLEM SÀNCHEZ / LONDRES
MONDAY, MAY 1, 2017 - 20:29 CEST
Candance Conti was born into a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Freemont, California. In 1993, when he was 9 years old, he suffered the sexual abuse of the man with whom his mother, Jonathan Kendrick, married. The pederast himself admitted such abuses to the congregation and the elders - the name given to the leaders of each group - reported to the Watchtower.
In strict compliance with what has been so far the self-management policy of each case of pederasty reported within this religious organization with more than 8 million faithful worldwide, Candance's sexual abuse was never reported to the police. In 2012, an American jury found the reason and forced its aggressor - and also the Jehovah 's Witnesses - to pay the most important compensation with which a religious organization in the United States has been fined. Years later, however, the appeal of the Witnesses prospered and ostensibly reduced the amount and civil responsibility of the confession. However, the judicial victory that Candance had obtained in just over 20 years had already pierced the rock and, after many decades of darkness for the victims, some light from the outside began to leak.
"When Kendrick's sexual abuse began, did you ask for help right away?" No. Then I was too scared. Especially to be expelled from the congregation. I did not feel safe to say anything then.
"When did you decide to say it?" Later, when I understood that he [Kendrick] might be doing the same thing he did to me to other children. I could not get that out of my head.
"Did you talk to the elders [leaders of the congregation]?" The first old man I turned to looked at me and said, 'What do you want me to do? To start a solo crusade? '
-You gave up? No. There were more meetings with seniors. But it was mostly for me to prove that the allegations about Kendrick were true. They put me in a very difficult situation, asking me delicate questions, I realized that they were trying to get me information instead of helping me.
- Was it then when you decided to go 'outside' and report? There were no other options. They did not even try to lie to me. If they had, and promised that they would see to it that Kendrick did not abuse any more children, he might never have filed a complaint.
"That made you the first victim to have won such a trial against the witnesses ... did you think that would be possible?" Of course not. It seemed like an impossible battle. But he had to try. They describe life together with Jehovah as being in "the truth." I felt that with "my truth" I was facing all that.
"In time, have you become aware of the importance of the victory you achieved? A bit. But I hope it will serve even more. If all that made it possible to protect at least one child from suffering the same thing as me, then all this will have been worth it.
"Do you trust that there will be more sentences like yours in the future?" Of course, I can not be the last.
-Are you afraid of the media repercussion that your case had? Not too much. I was more worried about something else, about the possibility of losing my family as soon as it became known that I had filed this complaint. That scared me a lot. And I knew that as soon as it was known, it would happen. Because for the organization my claim would mean that I was attacking the Jehovah's Witnesses.
-Occurred? Yes, I lost them all. Except my mother and my grandparents.
"How hard ... Yes. And I never attacked their beliefs. Everyone has the right to believe in what he wants. I would never tell anyone who thinks it is bad. I just said that maybe things should be done differently within the organization to protect minors.
"Do you think one day your relatives will understand?" I have that hope.
"Do you regret having made the decision to face Jehovah's Witnesses judicially?" Do not.
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Russia forbids Jehovah's Witnesses. El País newspaper also points to complaints in Spain
by sp74bb insource: el país newspaper.
http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/04/21/mundo_global/1492792022_341557.html.
russia forbids jehovah's witnesses.
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Source: El País newspaperRussia forbids Jehovah's Witnesses. And in Spain, El País also aims to:
"Complaints also in Spain
Jehovah's Witnesses also have problems in other countries, especially for some of their prescriptions that prohibit, for example, blood transfusions (...) In addition, there has been denounced (including in Spain) the existence of an internal justice that judges To those who commit crimes like child abuse, hiding them from ordinary justice. "
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Who keeps the data of the 110,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Spain?
by sp74bb ina new interesting article.... a group of former members denounce "breaches" of the protection law; the congregation emphasizes that it complies with the norms.
spanish: http://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/vida/datos-testigos-jehova-lopd-proteccion-abusos-tj_71381_102.html.
english: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=http://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/vida/datos-testigos-jehova-lopd-proteccion-abusos-tj_71381_102.html&usg=alkjrhg84wp4qeizkmlijx_wtdrzx-zg9a.
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sp74bb
@darkspilver Rather I feel keeping a file of exJW is illegal !
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Who keeps the data of the 110,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Spain?
by sp74bb ina new interesting article.... a group of former members denounce "breaches" of the protection law; the congregation emphasizes that it complies with the norms.
spanish: http://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/vida/datos-testigos-jehova-lopd-proteccion-abusos-tj_71381_102.html.
english: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=http://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/vida/datos-testigos-jehova-lopd-proteccion-abusos-tj_71381_102.html&usg=alkjrhg84wp4qeizkmlijx_wtdrzx-zg9a.
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Human translation into English:
Who keeps the data of the 110,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Spain?
A group of former members denounce "breaches" of the protection law; the congregation emphasizes that they comply with the law
IGNASI Jorro @IgnasiJorro 16.04.2017 00:00 h.
Who keeps the data of the more than 110,000 Jehovah's Witnesses (TJ) in Spain? A group of ex-members of the cult denounce "breaches" of the Organic Law of Data Protection (LOPD) within the congregation. The legal services of the organization respond that they "abide laws " in this matter.
AbusosTJ, which brings together people who denounce sexual assault when they were part of the millenarian cult, warns that JW "asks for data from the people they preach without asking them to sign the cession."
According to the same source, JW branch "replies some requests for cancellation out the deadline" which, in there view, "can be complicated for people of public notoriety who decide to leave the cult."
"STRICT LEGALITY"
Asked about the accusations, a spokesman for the JW legal services in Ajalvir (Madrid) has categorically denied them. "The Witnesses only ask for the personal data necessary for the proper functioning of the organization, just like any other entity," he said.
When the person leaves the organization "all data, except those strictly necessary, such as the first and last name, in case this person decides to rejoin" are deleted. This minimum file scope would serve for the "good organizational order" of the JW.
With regard to complaints to the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD), the spokesman stressed that "there are requirements that have been settled globally in favor of the congregation."
"SENSITIVE DATA"
Asked about the dispute between alleged victims of abuse and the hierarchy of the JW, Eloi Font, Managing Partner of the law firm specializing in digital law Font Advocats, recalled that the religious organizations datas "are especially sensitive."
"These datas are protected by the maximum protection level, which means that the user must be able to exercise their rights of modification, rectification or cancellation, that they must be protected, their custody must be notified to the AEPD and specific contracts must be signed with suppliers if they access data "said the lawyer.
In case of cancellation, regarding one of the assumptions insufficiently covered according to AbusosTJ, Mr. Font sheds more light. "The information is not erased, it is blocked, every data has a limitation period for public administrations, justice and taxation. The file should be blocked in order not to be used, and erased as the term expires,"
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Who keeps the data of the 110,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Spain?
by sp74bb ina new interesting article.... a group of former members denounce "breaches" of the protection law; the congregation emphasizes that it complies with the norms.
spanish: http://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/vida/datos-testigos-jehova-lopd-proteccion-abusos-tj_71381_102.html.
english: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=http://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/vida/datos-testigos-jehova-lopd-proteccion-abusos-tj_71381_102.html&usg=alkjrhg84wp4qeizkmlijx_wtdrzx-zg9a.
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sp74bb
@Skepsis, Anibal Matos is not anymore spokesman for the Branch.
He has a very good voice, but indeed... listening to him is the best chance to hear that JW stuff is really a lie...