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  My Old Kingdom Hall being merged with TWO other congregations!

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
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  this 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 Congregation

  The 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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  Watching the World - MEGA THREAD of topics

  by darkspilver in

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  an esoteric hotchpotch of topics, from the mildly interesting to the rather boringi'm posting here to avoid the 'new topic' forum limitations, and besides it also helps to avoid clogging up the forum if you think something is of passing interest, and you wish to comment on it, please feel free to re-post as a new topic - thanks!

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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.”
  

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  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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  Watching the World - MEGA THREAD of topics

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an esoteric hotchpotch of topics, from the mildly interesting to the rather boringi'm posting here to avoid the 'new topic' forum limitations, and besides it also helps to avoid clogging up the forum if you think something is of passing interest, and you wish to comment on it, please feel free to re-post as a new topic - thanks!

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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.
  

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  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.
  

  READ MORE: http://www.nvinoticias.com/nota/53600/encarcelan-diez-ciudadanos-en-el-istmo-por-ser-testigos-de-jehova
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  Why I Refused To Go To Gay Son's Wedding EXCLUSIVE

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
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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.

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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
  
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  Watching the World - MEGA THREAD of topics

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an esoteric hotchpotch of topics, from the mildly interesting to the rather boringi'm posting here to avoid the 'new topic' forum limitations, and besides it also helps to avoid clogging up the forum if you think something is of passing interest, and you wish to comment on it, please feel free to re-post as a new topic - thanks!

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  AUSTRALIA: Why I Refused To Go To Gay Son's Wedding

  Front page splash on 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.

  It comes as her son claimed how "near daily conditioning" by Jehovah's Witnesses drove his mother to "overwrite her own maternal instincts to support her faith".

  In a letter to the Daily, Chris responded to Jehovah's Witness spokesman Rodney Spinks' comments that his mum was not speaking on behalf of the organisation.

  READ MORE: https://m.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/bride-and-prejudice-mum-denies-sons-church-control/3155773/
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  My Old Kingdom Hall being merged with TWO other congregations!

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this 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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  to be honest, we need pictures!!!......
  
  
  Kingdom Hall A - Closing (moving to H, 8 miles away)

  Speke Congregation
  88 Little Heath Road, Speke L24 2TP
  

  https://goo.gl/maps/GB5DqavY8r72
  
  
  
  
  Kingdom Hall G - Closing (moving to H, 9 miles away)

  Belle Vale Congregation
  Cockshead Road, Belle Vale L25 2RB
  

  https://goo.gl/maps/NL4Pi4YtwB82
  
  
  
  Kingdom Hall H - being kept

  Widnes Congregation
  3A Dykin Road, Widnes WA8 3HN
  

  https://goo.gl/maps/tpes28mrQhN2
  
  
  
  Kingdom Hall J - (the one closest to G that is closing, 2 miles away)

  Broad Green Congregation
  West Derby Congregation
  Old Thomas Lane, Broad Green L14 3NA
  

  https://goo.gl/maps/8WCiyeV8zg72
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  SWITZERLAND: Thousands of sexual assaults in JWs

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  another major article regardng the report into sex abuse in the jws that was published a week ago.

  tages anzeiger, 6 march 2017. thousands of sexual assaults in jehovah's witnesses.

  http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/tausende-sexuelle-uebergriffe-bei-den-zeugen-jehovas/story/22658338.

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  Another major article regardng the report into sex abuse in the JWs that was published a week ago

  Tages Anzeiger, 6 March 2017
  

  Thousands of sexual assaults in Jehovah's Witnesses

  http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/tausende-sexuelle-uebergriffe-bei-den-zeugen-jehovas/story/22658338

  see also: Jehovah's Witnesses are silent

  and: Abuse: Law of silence among JWs

  and: Thousands of sexual assaults in JWs
  
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  Policemen beat up 15-year-old JW boy

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a father complains that several policemen beat his 15 year old son "because the family is jehovah's witness and the black race".

  http://www.martinoticias.com/a/cuba-golpiza-menor-estacion-policia-moron-/140761.html.

  see also https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/4898637962280960.

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  John Free: So we're trusting the media this week are we darkspliv? Just checking because normally they're telling apostate\Satan driven lies about gods holy people. This time its all true though lol
  

  Sorry I don't understand, what do you mean? That I don't trust the media reports, or that you don't trust the media reports I've posted over the last week?... which ones?
  
  like the major report on sex abuse in the JW's published in Switzerland - and the three major news articles dealing with it?
  

  Jehovah's Witnesses are silent
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/4924085307965440

  Abuse: Law of silence among JWs
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5725095769145344

  Thousands of sexual assaults in JWs
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/4719726804598784
  
  or maybe the media report on the JW's found guilty (on appeal) of fraud in Spain - which was also posted about afterwards by Hecce?

  Tribunal Supremo confirms convictions for swindling 39 million from hundreds of JWs
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5789279760416768
  
  or maybe the TV news report about the School Bus Driver in Florida, which was also posted about afterwards by ToesUp?

  Polk woman claims school bus driver told 7-year old son he would go to hell for mom's same-sex relationship
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5645890129756160
  
  or maybe the media interview/s that an ex-JW couple from Austria gave?

  JWs: "It is hoped that soon the end will come"
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5148154959757312
  
  or maybe the Scottish JW husband found guilty of acting aggressively towards his wife
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4922368965214208/_post/6261023063408640
  
  or maybe the UK's Guardian report on the ARC (and I believe it was the ONLY UK coverage of the recent ARC case)
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5724057662128128/_post/5165413950291968
  
  Take your pick from what I've posted in just the last week.

  I also highlighted the source of this thread's OP too (from the US broadcasting in Spanish to Cuba)
  

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/4898637962280960
  
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  Watching the World - MEGA THREAD of topics

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an esoteric hotchpotch of topics, from the mildly interesting to the rather boringi'm posting here to avoid the 'new topic' forum limitations, and besides it also helps to avoid clogging up the forum if you think something is of passing interest, and you wish to comment on it, please feel free to re-post as a new topic - thanks!

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  SWITZERLAND: Thousands of sexual assaults in JWs

  Another major article about the abuse report recently pubished in Switzerland - see above post from seven days ago

  Tages Anzeiger, 6 March 2017
  

  Thousands of sexual assaults in Jehovah's Witnesses

  Investigations and trials in several countries show a parallel world in which loyalty to the faith community counts more than the welfare of the children.

  The Christian-fundamentalist religious community of the Jehovah's Witnesses, also known as the Wachtturm Society, makes headlines all over the world because it has concealed the sexual abuse of minors for decades. Processes in many countries document the large extent of the attacks of some of the high-ranking witnesses.

  However, the authorities of most countries do not dare to shed light on the dark chapter of the religious community that has built up a parallel world. In Great Britain, however, two state commissions investigate sexual assaults with Jehovah's Witnesses. In several processes, believers must be held responsible for such acts.

  READ MORE: http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/tausende-sexuelle-uebergriffe-bei-den-zeugen-jehovas/story/22658338
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  Policemen beat up 15-year-old JW boy

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a father complains that several policemen beat his 15 year old son "because the family is jehovah's witness and the black race".

  http://www.martinoticias.com/a/cuba-golpiza-menor-estacion-policia-moron-/140761.html.

  see also https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/4898637962280960.

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  Thanks - I was using the headline as provided in the article as the basis

  One of the public comments - which are only visible if you actually 'click' to view them - right at the bottom of the web page says (google translate)
  

  Note Clarification on the beating of the minor in Morón. Luis Lemagne Milian, only 15 years old is NOT JEHOVAH'S WITNESS, his parents and other relatives if they belong to that religion. It was a writing error in the headline of the news. Nevertheless the weight of the chronicle lies in the brutality of the police.