This video seems to date back to March 4. There was an article reporting on it in the Slovak online magazine tvnovin which is translated as follows :
Unique
shots. At the meeting of Jehovah's Witnesses, they were also asked to
talk about what they had denied for years.
They
fear losing their family, but say they can no longer remain silent. We have been approached by several members of Jehovah's Witnesses who decided to
leave the community years later. But they say it's not easy.
If
they leave, they risk losing ties to their loved ones. The impending
social isolation is likened by members to death.
The community of
Jehovah's Witnesses denies the ban on contact with departed persons.
However, the videos we have obtained say otherwise.
It's not easy
Three
months ago, we were approached by a man who grew up in a family of
Jehovah's Witnesses. He talked about banning transfusions, waiting for
the end of the world, but especially about social isolation.
"It is very
often emphasized and reminded that the outside world is under the
influence of the devil. People who are not in that organization and do
not have spiritual guidance can have a bad spiritual and moral
influence," he told us.
The young man claimed that he would like to
leave the community, but it is not easy.
"Because it would put my
parents under a lot of psychological pressure. They have such a doctrine
that excommunicated members are sort of isolated from that community.
No one in that community is allowed to contact, talk, or basically greet
excluded witnesses.
After the last report was broadcast, several former
and current members contacted not only us, but also the Ministry of
Interior of the Slovak Republic.
In
the Reflex report, you will also hear a foreword in the Czech Republic,
where leading representatives of Jehovah's Witnesses also talk about
how to treat departed members.
It
is there that the man emphasizes that the rules are always the same,
even if it is the immediate family.
