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  Pretoria resident says - before high court in South Africa - he is the anointed one !

  by ZAPPA-ESQUE in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  pretoria [ south africa] - an unusual urgent application served before the gauteng high court this week,in which a lyttelton manor resident, who said he is was known as the “anointed one” among jehovah’s witnesses, asked the court to officially swear him in as the worldwide leader of the organisation.. ernest gericke, in papers before the court, told judge bill prinsloo that the “first business of the christ is the legal establishment of the kingdom of god on earth, known as the jehovah’s kingdom.” .

  gericke said this involved the the conducting of a covenant for a kingdom, which is to take place on april 11. .

  “in order to effect the legal requirements for the kingdom this honourable court is requested to hear the public oath of the office of the king.

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  FYI update
  

  The Citizen, Saturday 8 April 2017

  Judge dismisses ‘anointed one’s’ court application

  http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1481652/judge-dismisses-anointed-ones-court-application/

  The above gives his name as Ernest Ronald Gericke - not sure if the same as below?
  

  IN THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA

  (Gauteng Local Division, Johannesburg)

  In the matter between: FIRSTRAND BANK LIMITED, Judgment Creditor, and ERNEST RONALD GERICKE, 1st Judgment Debtor, and CANDICE LYNN GERICKE (formally RUTHERFORD), 2nd Judgment Debtor.

  https://www.greengazette.co.za/notices/_20140905-LNB-37961-16707-00014.pdf

  haha, notice wife's maiden name??
  
  
  
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  RUSSIA: (6 April 2017) Day 2 - Jehovah's Witnesses hearing under way

  by jwleaks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tighter security today and much greater police presence.

  great weather.. .

  lunchtime view over moscow.. .

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  Updates are coming through in Russian here:

  https://www.jw-russia.org/pages/17040614-132.html

  Either copy and paste into Google Translate

  https://translate.google.co.uk/

  or use a 'direct link'

  https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jw-russia.org%2Fpages%2F17040614-132.html&edit-text=&act=url

  jwleaks might max-out their allowable number of forum posts within any 24 hours period....
  
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  RUSSIA: (5 April 2017) Jehovah's Witnesses hearing under way

  by jwleaks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the trial has begun.

  the crowd on the street (see photo) is now inside and the gallery is packed.. yesterday jehovah's witnesses presented a written legal argument - "objections to the administrative claim of the ministry of justice of the russian federation" - to the supreme court of russia which, in paragraph 254, argued that if the ministry for justice liquidates and bans the activities of jehovah's witnesses then this will force individual members to renounce or abandon their religion for fear of persecution.. download legal argument (russian).

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  From todays i newspaper - it's in the print version of what was the Independant newspaper which is now only online.

  The i - Thursday 6 April 2017 - page 25, top

  
  
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  Protest against Jehovah's Witness organization in Poland on March 26th, 2017, covered by a local news TV

  by WTS Archive in

  1. social
  2. current

  watch it here: .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8koav8xzck .

  the protest was organized by a former jw elder and pioneer couple - alex and iza.

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  that's cool - thanks
  
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  Protest against Jehovah's Witness organization in Poland on March 26th, 2017, covered by a local news TV

  by WTS Archive in

  1. social
  2. current

  watch it here: .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8koav8xzck .

  the protest was organized by a former jw elder and pioneer couple - alex and iza.

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  What happened in the end? TIA
  

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5116768873873408/help-needed-from-folks-uk-esp-scotland
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  NYTimes Article - Russia Moves to Ban Jehovah's Witnesses as 'Extremist'

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/europe/russia-moves-to-ban-jehovahs-witnesses-as-extremist.html?_r=0.

  vorokhobino, russia — a dedicated pacifist who has never even held a gun, andrei sivak discovered that his government considered him a dangerous extremist when he tried to change some money and the teller “suddenly looked up at me with a face full of fear.”.

  his name had popped up on the exchangalee bureau’s computer system, along with those of members of al qaeda, the islamic state and other militant groups responsible for shocking acts of violence.. the only group the 43-year-old father of three has ever belonged to, however, is jehovah’s witnesses, a christian denomination committed to the belief that the bible must be taken literally, particularly its injunction “thou shalt not kill.”.

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  FYI - the article that AndersonsInfo linked to in the OP was featured on the middle of the front page of the New York Times
  

  The high-profile nature of the case is sparking coverage by international news outlets, including... a front-page article in the print edition of The New York Times (“Pacifist, Christian and Threatened by Russian Ban as ‘Extremist’”) on April 5.

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/russia/supreme-court-begins-case-against-jehovahs-witnesses/
  

  Large (readable) PDF scan of the New York Times 5 April 2017, front page:
  

  http://www.nytimes.com/images/2017/04/05/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf

  
  
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  RUSSIA: (5 April 2017) Jehovah's Witnesses hearing under way

  by jwleaks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the trial has begun.

  the crowd on the street (see photo) is now inside and the gallery is packed.. yesterday jehovah's witnesses presented a written legal argument - "objections to the administrative claim of the ministry of justice of the russian federation" - to the supreme court of russia which, in paragraph 254, argued that if the ministry for justice liquidates and bans the activities of jehovah's witnesses then this will force individual members to renounce or abandon their religion for fear of persecution.. download legal argument (russian).

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  Is that Paul Gillies left of that picture?
  

  Yes
  

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5196697967788032/jw-representatives-russian-coutroom-today-hearing
  
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  Lewis V Watchtower

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  as some may know as reported by jwsurvey in october 2014 that a lawsuit against watchtower was initiated in vermont.

  march 30, 2017 saw a resolution to this case with a summary judgment being filled in watchtower favor..

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  FYI I believe the following are related to this case:
  

  Zalkin Law Firm's Press Release:

  http://www.silentlambs.org/documents/ZalkinNRLewisJWcaseVermont093014final1.pdf
  

  Plus

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/285073/vermont-sisters-sue-jehovahs-witnesses-child-sex-abuse

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4923468512493568/wt-wants-throw-out-lawsuit-vermont

  http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2014/09_10/2014_10_01_Goswami_AbuseSuits.htm
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  JWs - Organ, Tissue and Eye Donation

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  fyi.

  saturday 15 april 2017, 4pm to 6pm.

  organ, tissue and eye donation.

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  FYI
  

  Saturday 15 April 2017, 4pm to 6pm
  

  Organ, Tissue and Eye Donation

  Event specific to the Jehovah Witness Community: What your advance directive didn't tell you, breaking myths and misconceptions about organ/tissue/eye donation.

  Plus FREE hemoglobin check for those over the age of 18.
  

  https://www.spartanburgregional.com/community/events/details/?eventId=8628f5d7-c708-e711-9a9c-782bcb3b39aa
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  TIME Magazine: Russian Supreme Court Considers Outlawing Jehovah's Witness Worship

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://time.com/4723456/jehovahs-witness-russia-supreme-court/.

  russian supreme court considers outlawing jehovah's witness worship.

  the russian supreme court could declare the jehovah's witnesses an extremist organization in a wednesday hearing, a move that would lead to the seizure of the church's headquarters near st. petersburg and the outlawing of the group’s organized worship.. in advance of the hearing, international concern has grown.

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  Hi notsurewheretogo
  

  Remeber that in Mexico, for many year's the JW's stopped using ANY bible in the house-to-house first call work.

  They also stopped saying public prayers at meetings

  And didn't sing any songs at the meeting either

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5445547701829632/_post/5710129229987840