What's the low-down on this? anyone?
NVI Noticias, Friday 10 March 2017
Ten citizens are imprisoned in the Isthmus for being Jehovah's Witnesses
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5153619030573056
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Mexico throws 10 people in jail for being JWs
by darkspilver innvi noticias, friday 10 march 2017. ten citizens are imprisoned in the isthmus for being jehovah's witnesses.
http://www.nvinoticias.com/nota/53600/encarcelan-diez-ciudadanos-en-el-istmo-por-ser-testigos-de-jehova.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5153619030573056.
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JW Bethel asks for a million euros to be paid to avoid courtroom
by darkspilver infrom cronica (spain).
jehovah's witnesses 'plugged' a one million euro entrepreneurial hole.
the cult asked to maintain the "peace" of a congregation in galicia to avoid that the case of emptying of the company reached civil justice.. jws asked to hide a million-euro business hole at a supply company in la coruña (galicia).
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From Cronica (Spain)
Jehovah's Witnesses 'plugged' a one million euro entrepreneurial hole
The cult asked to maintain the "peace" of a congregation in Galicia to avoid that the case of emptying of the company reached civil justice.
JWs asked to hide a million-euro business hole at a supply company in La Coruña (Galicia). The cult appealed to the "peace" of the congregation to pressure the co-owners of the firm and prevent them from reporting the case to ordinary justice.
http://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/vida/testigos-jehova-agujero-empresarial-galicia_69908_102.html
Posted 06:40 EDT Saturday, 18 March 2017
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SPAIN: JWs 'plugged' a one million euro entrepreneurial hole
Cronica, Saturday 18 March 2017
Jehovah's Witnesses 'plugged' a one million euro entrepreneurial hole
The cult asked to maintain the "peace" of a congregation in Galicia to avoid that the case of emptying of the company reached civil justice
Jehovah's Witnesses asked to hide a million-euro business hole at a supply company in La Coruña (Galicia). The cult appealed to the "peace" of the congregation to pressure the co-owners of the firm and prevent them from reporting the case to ordinary justice.
The case concerns a well-known construction supplies company based in the provincial capital. The company, founded in 1975, belongs to a family that has been a member of the Witnesses since it was born.
When one of the parents died in 2014, one of the daughters inherited a share in society. The rest of the capital remained in the hands of his relatives.
"One million euros"
When the citizen received the shareholding inheritance, she discovered a remarkable puff in the mercantile in what seemed a solvent company, according to it appears from the documents to which this newspaper has been able to access.
According to what the papers that are in the hands of several congregations of Witnesses in Galicia , the partner would have discovered the suspicious sale of an industrial warehouse and diversion of funds.
Likewise, the creation of a very similar company with a similar name emerged, a redirected web portal and an identical telephone. With this stratagem, the parallel merchant would have taken the goodwill, the merchandise and the clientele.
The complainant estimates that the loss caused by the alleged unfair administration totals one million euros, 400,000 euros in diverted funds and 600,000 in goods transferred to society B.READ MORE: http://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/vida/testigos-jehova-agujero-empresarial-galicia_69908_102.html
(above includes copy of letter from Spanish Bethel)
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UK: Kingdom Hall Sold!
This one is in Pontypool....
Commercial Street, Griffithstown, Pontypool, NP4 5JF
https://goo.gl/maps/K7AtLnm1ouE2
Now it's going to be an accountants office
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/wales/accountancy-firm-eyes-move-to-historic-buildingThe nearest KH now half-a-mile away which is used by three congregations
Henllys Congregation
Pontnewydd Congregation
Pontypool CongregationSunnybank Road, Griffithstown, Pontypool NP4 5LN
https://goo.gl/maps/stsyoq6ThUT2
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ARC: Media coverage of Uniting Church and JWs lambasted EXCLUSIVE
by darkspilver inexplosive opinion commentary from gerard henderson regarding the (lack of and poor quality of) media coverge in australia of the recent australian royal commssion's case study 'wrap ups' for both the jws and the uniting church in comparision to the catholic..... media watch exclusive friday 17 march 2017. abc and fairfax media "out-to-lunch" when royal commission conducted public hearings into the uniting church last friday (after lunch).
here’s some news which the abc and fairfax media do not regard as fit-to-print.
over the past four decades, a child in australia was much more likely to suffer sexual abuse at a school or institution run by the uniting church than at a school or institution run by the catholic church.. the abc and fairfax media – along with the guardian and the saturday paper – have given extensive coverage to allegations against the catholic church made at the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
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EXPLOSIVE opinion commentary from Gerard Henderson regarding the (lack of and poor quality of) media coverge in Australia of the recent Australian Royal Commssion's Case Study 'wrap ups' for both the JWs and the Uniting Church in comparision to the Catholic....
MEDIA WATCH EXCLUSIVE Friday 17 March 2017
ABC and Fairfax Media "out-to-lunch" when Royal Commission Conducted Public hearings into the Uniting Church Last Friday (after lunch)
Here’s some news which the ABC and Fairfax Media do not regard as fit-to-print. Over the past four decades, a child in Australia was much more likely to suffer sexual abuse at a school or institution run by the Uniting Church than at a school or institution run by the Catholic Church.
The ABC and Fairfax Media – along with The Guardian and The Saturday Paper – have given extensive coverage to allegations against the Catholic Church made at the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The ABC’s Samantha Donovan and Philippa McDonald and Louise Milligan along with Fairfax Media’s Rachel Browne and Joanne McCarthy have been perhaps the most outspoken of the journalists regularly reporting the Royal Commission in so far as the crimes of pedophile Catholic priests and brothers have been concerned.
The ABC and Fairfax Media gave considerable coverage to the statement by Counsel Assisting Gail Furness SC on 6 February 2017 that 4445 people alleged instances of child sexual abuse within Catholic schools or institutions up until 2015. Most media focused on the statement by Ms Furness that “7 per cent of priests were alleged perpetrators”.
However, virtually no media attention was given to Ms Furness’s subsequent clarification on 16 February 2017, with reference to the Catholic Church:
Between January 1980 and February 2015, 4,445 people alleged incidents of child sexual abuse in 4,765 claims. The vast majority of claims alleged abuse that started in the period 1950 to 1989 inclusive. The largest proportion of first alleged incidents of child sexual abuse, 29 per cent, occurred in the 1970s.
In other words, within the Catholic Church the vast majority of allegations of pedophilia were made with respect to alleged crimes in the period 1950 to 1989 with close to a third of all allegations relating to the decade of the 1970s. That is, most of the allegations relate to instances of close to four decades ago and are historical crimes.
In what was called the “Catholic Wrap”, Royal Commission chairman Justice Peter McClellan devoted 15 entire days to examining the Catholic Church. Hearings were held between 6 February 2017 and 26 February 2017.
On Friday 10 March 2017, the Royal Commission devoted only half a day each to the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Uniting Church of Australia. Yet the evidence suggests that, on a per capita basis, there were more pedophiles in each church combined than in the Catholic Church – especially in the 1990s and subsequent decades.
...The statistics available to the Royal Commission with respect to the Uniting Church cover the period from 1977 to the present. That is, unlike the Catholic Church and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the allegations do not relate to a period going back to 1950.
There were 2504 instances or allegations of child sexual abuse made in the Uniting Church in the period 1977 to 2017 compared with 4445 instances in the Catholic Church covering the period 1950 to 2015. Yet the Uniting Church is about a fifth of the size of the Catholic Church. And its data covers four decades whereas the Catholic Church’s data covers over six decades. Moreover, evidence available to the Royal Commission indicates that virtually all offending by Catholic priests took place before 1990. Not so, apparently, with the Uniting Church.
On this evidence, child sexual assaults in the Uniting Church have been more prevalent than in the Catholic Church – especially in the years since 1990. This despite the fact that the Uniting Church has married male priests and female priests. There is no celibacy requirement within the Uniting Church and no sacrament of confession (in which the Royal Commission has taken a special interest concerning the Catholic Church).
Yet you would not be aware of any of this if you followed only the reporting of the Royal Commission by the ABC, Fairfax Media, The Guardian and The Saturday Paper. It seems the likes of Samantha Donovan, Philippa McDonald, Louise Milligan, Joanne McCarthy and Rachel Browne did not come back from lunch on Friday 10 February and simply missed the coverage of sexual child abuse in the Uniting Church in the four decades since 1977.
A Note on Mark Scott and Knox Grammar.
This is of special interest since Mark Scott, a one-time editorial director at Fairfax Media’s Sydney Morning Herald and a one-time editor-in-chief at the ABC, joined the board of the Uniting Church’s Knox Grammar in late 2007 and was deputy chairman between mid-2013 and 2016. He resigned from the board last year.
(see bottom for the email exchanges with Mark Scott)
Posted 16:40 EDT Friday, 17 March 2017
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AUSTRALIA: ABC and Fairfax Media "out-to-lunch" when Royal Commission Conducted Public hearings into the Uniting Church Last Friday (after lunch)
The Australian - Media Watch - Gerard Henderson - Friday 17 March 2017
MEDIA WATCH: ABC and Fairfax Media "out-to-lunch" when Royal Commission Conducted Public hearings into the Uniting Church Last Friday (after lunch)
Here’s some news which the ABC and Fairfax Media do not regard as fit-to-print. Over the past four decades, a child in Australia was much more likely to suffer sexual abuse at a school or institution run by the Uniting Church than at a school or institution run by the Catholic Church.
...The statistics available to the Royal Commission with respect to the Uniting Church cover the period from 1977 to the present. That is, unlike the Catholic Church and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the allegations do not relate to a period going back to 1950.
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Yet you would not be aware of any of this if you followed only the reporting of the Royal Commission by the ABC, Fairfax Media, The Guardian and The Saturday Paper. It seems the likes of Samantha Donovan, Philippa McDonald, Louise Milligan, Joanne McCarthy and Rachel Browne did not come back from lunch on Friday 10 February and simply missed the coverage of sexual child abuse in the Uniting Church in the four decades since 1977.
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This is of special interest since Mark Scott, a one-time editorial director at Fairfax Media’s Sydney Morning Herald and a one-time editor-in-chief at the ABC, joined the board of the Uniting Church’s Knox Grammar in late 2007 and was deputy chairman between mid-2013 and 2016.
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My Old Kingdom Hall being merged with TWO other congregations!
by pale.emperor inthis can only be a good sign.. my old congregation in liverpool has had a lot of money in it's bank account for years.
for a long, long time (almost 8 years) they've been looking for land to build a new hall.
the one they're in now is literally falling to bits.
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I think H is St Helens with two congregations using it now. Widnes Congregation is in another circuit and KingdomHall not very spacious
St Helens Kingdom Hall is on the North side of the M62 - on the above map, that's just above where it says 'Clock Face' (it does not have a pointer mark)
St Helens Kingdom Hall, 17-39 Chester Lane, St Helens WA9 4DA
Shaw Street Congregation
Sutton CongregationThe OP said they are keeping Widnes KH (H) which has just one congregation using it, and moving two other congregations into it - Speke and Belle Vale congregations and selling off their respective KHs (A and G)
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USA: We Would Have Stayed Together If Our Son Hadn’t Died, Prince’s Ex-Wife Says
People, 16 March 2017
We Would Have Stayed Together If Our Son Hadn’t Died, Prince’s Ex-Wife Says
The death of Prince and his ex-wife Mayte Garcia’s newborn son in 1996 not only devastated the couple, but ultimately doomed their marriage, his former spouse and one-time muse tells PEOPLE.
“I don’t think he ever got over it,” Garcia says in an exclusive interview and excerpt from her new memoir The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince that appears in this week’s PEOPLE. “I know I haven’t.”...
Prince retreated into the teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses faith. “At the time it was giving him the answers that he liked,” Garcia recalls. “Looking back, I probably would have done things differently now. But back then I just wanted to forget the pain.”READ MORE: http://people.com/music/prince-mayte-garcia-would-have-stayed-together-son-amiir-death/
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MEXICO: Ten citizens are imprisoned in the Isthmus for being Jehovah's Witnesses
NVI Noticias, Friday 10 March 2017
Ten citizens are imprisoned in the Isthmus for being Jehovah's Witnesses
JUCHITÁN, Oaxaca .- A group of 10 Huave citizens from San Francisco del Mar Pueblo Viejo, who profess the Protestant religion of the Jehovah's Witnesses congregation, were imprisoned by the municipal agency's authority for not participating in political life and refusing to Pay a fine of one thousand pesos (US$51) for the same situation.
The agency's authority, led by Isaías García, imprisoned: Julio Ventura, Hugo Matus, Miguel Nieto, Julio Martínez, Israel Francisco Gómez, Luis Ocampo Vargas, Marcos Cortés, Avisahy Francisco, Daniel Francisco and Leolegario Vargas, all Jehovah's Witnesses , And were threatened with expulsion from the village for not attending the Assemblies of Commissariat of Communal Goods.
Those detained since March 8, refused to pay the fine for not attending the assembly on March 4, as well as being constantly harassed by the authority, since they do not participate in the life of the assemblies nor vote, Neither by the PRI nor by another party, because their religion does not allow it....
Not all the people are in favor of the imprisonment of the Jehovah's Witnesses; About 35 people demanded the authority to be released for being peaceful citizens. -
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Why I Refused To Go To Gay Son's Wedding EXCLUSIVE
by darkspilver infront page of the sunshine coast daily, friday 17 march 2017. yvonne, the mother of chris on bride and prejudice, has for the first time explained why she couldn't attend her gay son's wedding.
https://m.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/bride-and-prejudice-mum-denies-sons-church-control/3155773/.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5672317399072768.
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Front page of the Sunshine Coast Daily, Friday 17 March 2017
YVONNE, the mother of Chris on Bride and Prejudice, has for the first time explained why she couldn't attend her gay son's wedding.
https://m.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/bride-and-prejudice-mum-denies-sons-church-control/3155773/
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5672317399072768
