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  WA bill mandating clergy report abuse clears Senate floor

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  https://columbiabasinherald.com/news/2025/mar/24/wa-bill-mandating-clergy-report-abuse-clears-senate-floor/ .

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  New World, New World Order, New System of Things

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  the wts has used to above terms, over the years, some more preferred in certain time periods.

  more though, but these occurred to me first.

  also the terms "new world" and "new world order" have been used by some us presidents and other leaders..

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  Ex-jws request congregation info on file

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  https://www.oakbaynews.com/news/grand-forks-jehovahs-witnesses-lose-privacy-law-appeal-7897541 .

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  February 2025 Letters to the Elders Announcements/Reminders

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  i have finally sat down and read this letter.

  i won't recreate the letter here, but if someone wants to share the link here, please do.. announcements and reminders.

  february 2025. for elders.

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  Who is "the Christ" in 1927 per Rutherford

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  n 1926, rutherford reinterpreted the faithful slave from a single person to a group of people.

  thus the interpretation had come full circle, but this time the servant included jesus as well as the 144,000.  so "the christ" is jesus alone, jesus and member of his body collectively as one, or applied only to the members of the body of christ yet on earth.

  three different things.... "seeing then that the servant of jehovah is the christ, and that the christ is composed of jesus and the faithful members of his body, we find it proper to apply the term "servant" to jesus christ alone or to jesus christ and the members of his body collectively as one; and sometimes it is applied only to the members of the body of christ yet on earth.

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  Is the US a democracy or a republic? Yes

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  https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122089076/is-america-a-democracy-or-a-republic-yes-it-is.

  throughout our history we have functioned as both.

  put another way, we have utilized characteristics of both.

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  Prague Czech Republic Considers WT Registration

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  https://english.radio.cz/culture-ministry-considers-revoking-jehovahs-witnesses-registration-8841807 .

  culture ministry considers revoking jehovah’s witnesses' registration.

  the czech ministry of culture is considering revoking the religious registration of the jehovah’s witnesses, according to czech radio information.

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  PENNSYLVANIA SENTENCING OF JW CHILD SEXUAL ABUSER

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  https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/case-update-philadelphia-jehovahs-witnesses-congregation-member-jailed-up-to-4-years-for-sexual-abuse-of-a-young-child/.

  harrisburg — attorney general dave sunday announced that david balosa will serve two to four years in prison for using his standing as a member of a jehovah’s witnesses congregation in philadelphia to befriend, then sexually assault, a young child in 1998.... and https://www.newsbreak.com/daily-voice-525087/3786329373200-4-year-old-abused-by-jehovah-s-witness-gets-justice-pa-ag .

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  Clergy Accountability Current Development

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  some how this most important part was cut off and i can't edit it "in 2024, the archdiocese of seattle refused to release documents related to clergy abuse, citing court-upheld exemptions under the charitable trust act.

  the case is now on appeal.

  however, other religious organizations, including jehovah's witnesses and the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, also rely on the exemption to shield themselves from accountability in reporting abuse.. "abuse thrives in silence," said mitch melin, a former member of jehovah's witnesses.

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  Clergy Accountability Report Child Secual Abuse

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  there a group is fighting in the legal area to make clergy accountable to report child sexual abuse cases https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20250127ph04780/clergy-accountability-coalition-urges-support-as-legislature-renews-battle-over-clergy-reporting-bill-sb-5375-amid-fierce-catholic-pushback "if passed, sb 5375 would align washington with six other states—new hampshire, north carolina, oklahoma, rhode island, texas, and west virginia—that mandate clergy to report knowledge of child abuse, including information disclosed during private religious rites like confession.

  washington is one of only five states where clergy are not required to report child abuse under any circumstances.

  " for the past three years, the catholic church and catholic state lawmakers have fiercely opposed similar legislation, even as the church remains under investigation by the attorney general's office for clergy abuse and institutional concealment.

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