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  Sexual abuse scandals, paid agreement to several victims

  by formerministerial in

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  due to my work, i've been traveling quite a lot in south of europe.. i still have a lot of contacts within jw and exjw and i'm surprised in my conversations, most of them are very concerned regarding sexual abuses scandals in their area, either italy, spain and other countries.. one of my contact high ranked even told about the craziness in some branches south of europe regarding that matter.

  it has been confirmed that several scandals are being judged on court, but some other ones has been closed paying a large sum of money.. any confirmation from other sources?.

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  @formerministerial I heard as well gossiping about several settlements around the area.

  I feel JW.org will never understand after first settlement if make easy to other cases to move on and request the same outcome.
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  New Bethel in Bologna (It.)

  by LaFrancia in

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  the new bethel is in bologna city.

  rome be for sale.

  the new bethel not ready until 2020.

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  How many millions can Via Buffalota be sold in Rome?
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  Watchtower Now Considers Elders to Be Clergy Class

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

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  my father's uncle and spiritual mentor, benjamin ray kent, had been a deacon (ministerial servant) in watchtower founder c. t. russell's home ecclesia (congregation) in brooklyn, and also served as russell's personal secretary at brooklyn bethel.

  after attending university my father served a 5-year prison term during world war ii, supposedly for his loyalty to god.

  while his mother's proud and patriotic family disowned my father for his decision, it was his uncle ray who regularly visited him in prison.. that is the culture in which i was raised, and for much of my life, i took great pride in the belief that my father was a man of integrity to god.

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  That brings an interesting point for discussion.

  Elders being considered now as clergy are fully responsible in court of any claim or damage due to sexual abuses?

  At least in Spain I heard about many Elders having personal conscience issues regarding this. Some event considering asking private legal help.
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  New Zealand Begins Selling Kingdom Halls

  by KiwiBoy in

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  2. experiences

  the wainui-o-mata hall is closing and from 01 february they will be relocated to the 200 seater hall in newlands.

  johnsonville is merging with the wellington west congregation and will be known at wellington central also to be located in the newlands hall.

  wellington east will remain in the hall in kilbirnie at this stage but rumour has it that this hall will also be sold and they will make up the third congregation sharing the newlands hall.

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  More money $$$
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  Caleb and Sophia app?!?!?

  by DATA-DOG in

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  wtf???

  i didn’t know this was a thing.

  is someone making significant money from this?

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  Wow... :)
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  March 2019 WT

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  another mind-numbing edition with instructions on how adult jw's should be conducting themselves as "christians.

  i did like this paragraph though - after some reading between the lines:.

  page 11, par.

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  Really disgusting how they try to sell this :)
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  My brother-in-law is mentally out!

  by Kathy1978 in

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  2. experiences

  so....i’m going to rewind for a second.

  one of my brother-in-laws came over one evening late in 2016, november i think, just to hang out.

  we hadn’t seen him in a while and this is before we told anyone in his family we were out.

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  Glad to hear that !
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  New introduction

  by formerministerial in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello to all of you,.

  here goes an introduction of a new member.

  i'm 45 years old now and we wake up my wife and i from borg a few years ago.. i'm living between spain and france, due to my work.. it has been always refreshing to listen and read many of you here.. i hope it will continue the same..

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  Bienvenido (Welcome) !!
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  Sexual abuse scandals, paid agreement to several victims

  by formerministerial in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  due to my work, i've been traveling quite a lot in south of europe.. i still have a lot of contacts within jw and exjw and i'm surprised in my conversations, most of them are very concerned regarding sexual abuses scandals in their area, either italy, spain and other countries.. one of my contact high ranked even told about the craziness in some branches south of europe regarding that matter.

  it has been confirmed that several scandals are being judged on court, but some other ones has been closed paying a large sum of money.. any confirmation from other sources?.

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  I think @formerministerial is speaking about settlements outside US, specially south of Europe...
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  Commuter Bethelite video

  by no-zombie in

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  for those who missed last weeks clam meeting, there was a video played that was amazing ... however not in good way.. we are all aware how thousands of full time bethelites world wide got the boot and put out onto the street.

  some having giving most of their lives to the organization, but often with no real way to support themselves other than to depend on the generosity of others.

  so when this video talked about how special it would be for those who could step up and become a commuter bethelite, it made me think how calculating the governing body must be.

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  Baker McKenzie has done a perfect job.

  Bethelites seen as "regular workers". Where is the scriptural side of this?