more than one hundred people in the former soviet republic georgia foiled a congress of the jehovah's witnesses.
they were stirred up by parliamentary deputy guram sharadze, known for his religious intolerance.
read the whole story on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org.
Hi Hurt,
Thanks for your remark. I used the same terminology as the Russian newspaper. I didn’t notice that congress isn’t a word used for a Jehovah’s Witness assembly because in my native language (Dutch) we use the word congres for assembly.
Greetings Rado Vleugel
more than one hundred people in the former soviet republic georgia foiled a congress of the jehovah's witnesses.
they were stirred up by parliamentary deputy guram sharadze, known for his religious intolerance.
read the whole story on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org.
More than one hundred people in the former Soviet republic Georgia foiled a congress of the Jehovah's Witnesses. They were stirred up by parliamentary deputy Guram Sharadze, known for his religious intolerance.
Read the whole story on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org
Greetings,
Rado Vleugel
i have posted a cbs article on child abuse on watchtower information service.
**william bowen, attorney jeff anderson and plaintiff heidi meyer announce a civil lawsuit filed against the jehovah's witness headquarters.
(added 04/30/2003)**.
I have posted a CBS article on Child abuse on Watchtower Information Service
**William Bowen, Attorney Jeff Anderson and plaintiff Heidi Meyer announce a civil lawsuit filed against the Jehovah's Witness headquarters. (added 04/30/2003)**
Greetings,
Rado Vleugel
on my wife's job, she is one of about 10 jw's employed there.
recently one of them found out the assistant manager (who never told anyone she was ever a jw) was raised a jw and has been disfellowshipped for the last 10 years.
needless to say this news spread quickly amongst the jw's there, and of course they all started shunning this person.
Hi Wtlies,
This story is really interesting. May I ask you a favor? Can you rewrite this story in a style that is suitable for an article (if you have time)? I like to publish this story on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/
Greetings,
Rado Vleugel
Webmaster
Watchtower Information Service
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patience edema, a jehovah's witness, 24, died three days after giving birth to her second daughter,after refusing a vital blood transfusion.. read the whole story and more about the blood issue on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/.
rado vleugel
Patience Edema, a Jehovah's Witness, 24, died three days after giving birth to her second daughter,after refusing a vital blood transfusion.
Read the whole story and more about the blood issue on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/
Rado Vleugel
we were just watching er rerun episodes back to back...after the second episode finished chachasmum and i saw an advertisement for the jws.
it started out showing a teenage girl on the computer like she was in a chat room...and it was showing her write love notes to someone whom she thought might be a teenage boy...and a voice over said something like...parents protect your children...then it showed an old, fat man with a bottle of beer, sitting back typing on the computer...then all of a sudden it said, "teach your children knowledge, wisdom and thinking ability"...it caught my ear and i looked closer at the bottom of the screen it read: christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses...and gave a 1-800 number.
looks like they are stealing the mormons' pitch.
Hi Eisenstein,
On my site I have an article about another Watchtower commercial: http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/lovecom.htm
Rado Vleugel
a jehovah's witnesss elder was ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $4.7 million in restitution to almost 50 victims of a ponzi-like con game many of them elderly members of his own congregation.
read the whole story on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/.
rado vleugel
He has been a missionary. Maybe he just wanted to send money to the poor people in Africa…
Rado Vleugel
a jehovah's witnesss elder was ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $4.7 million in restitution to almost 50 victims of a ponzi-like con game many of them elderly members of his own congregation.
read the whole story on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/.
rado vleugel
A jehovah's Witnesss elder was ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $4.7 million in restitution to almost 50 victims of a Ponzi-like con game – many of them elderly members of his own congregation. Read the whole story on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/
Greetings,
Rado Vleugel
not based on a true story... (i higlighted the text in red)
reviews - variety
kim fields keeps hope alive in "pandora's trunk"
| Not based on a true story... (I higlighted the text in red) Reviews - Variety |
Kim Fields keeps hope alive in "Pandora's Trunk"
Fields' efforts are amplified by the fluid helming of Che'Rae Adams and the synergistic offstage characterizations of Indira Gibson. Created as the first female mortal by the gods of Olympus, the original Pandora got into a whole lot of trouble when she opened the forbidden box and unleashed all the diseases, sorrows, vice and crime that would afflict humanity throughout the ages. The only entity she managed to keep after she closed the box was hope. Fields' Pandora just soars as a ferociously discontented adoptee driven to learn the truth about her birth mother despite the surly, dismissive attitudes of her chain-smoking Jehovah's Witness adoptive mother Audrey (Gibson). Acting as Pandora's conscience is her constantly disapproving inner voice, Hope (also Gibson). Living in the Jamaica section of Queens, the youthful Pandora is constantly sneaking up to Audrey's attic to rhapsodize over the contents of her trunk, the only tangible legacy from her birth mother. Using the myriad contents of the trunk as launching pads, Fields' Pandora radiates an irrepressible energy as she fantasizes over the true identity of her mother. Opening the trunk lid, she impishly informs the audience that her rampant curiosities "get me in trouble now and it did back then." Constantly breaking the fourth wall that separates her character from the audience, Fields turns each fantasy into a tour de force audience-interactive standup routine. Finding a mask, she takes on the persona of a thoroughly hip Batgirl who confesses she was impregnated by the Joker, "who never offered to pay child support." Discarding the mask, Pandora dons a flowered hat and reminisces about Rosemary, a nice member of her adoptive mother's church who was ousted from the congregation. In a twinkling, she is immersed in a fantasy that has Rosemary coming under the seductive spell of a charlatan minister who is in fact the devil himself. Their passion-filled union results in Pandora as Rosemary's baby, daughter of Satan. The highlight of the show is Pandora's imagined turn as a pop diva, who is grilled by Oprah (Gibson) on the daytime talk show about her born-out-of-wedlock daughter. This leads to Fields' pre-recorded "Miss Understood," a comical musical rationalization of a poor ghetto girl's rise to the top and the sacrifices she needed to make along the way. At play's end, Fields makes an impressive emotional transformation when Pandora is offered the opportunity to know the exact truth about her mother or continue to live in her make-believe world. Gibson -- who remains obscured throughout, performing behind a series of screens -- impressively manages to connect with the onstage machinations of Fields. She is decidedly effective when a dying, emotion-drained Audrey finally reveals the sad truth behind her adoption of the infant Pandora. The production is enhanced greatly by the evocative sets, sound and lights of DeWayne Porter, Michael Hooker and Darryl Palagi, respectively. |
mandela sharply criticises bush and blair on iraq stance .
january 30, 2003 .
posted to the web january 30, 2003 .
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Posted to the web January 30, 2003
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
Johannesburg
Former South African president and Nobel peace prize laureate, Nelson Mandela, has strongly criticised the American leader, George W Bush, calling him arrogant and shortsighted. Mandela also hinted that the US president was behaving like a racist in his determination to go to war with Iraq.
Addressing an international womens forum in Johannesburg on Thursday, Mandela uttered his most outspoken remarks about Bush to date, asking, "Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly?"
South Africas revered elder statesman added: "What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."
Mandelas strong anti-Bush language coincided with a letter sent to Washington and drafted by eight European countries backing Bushs stance on matters concerning the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Iraq is currently being inspected for weapons of mass destruction by a team from the United Nations, which issued a generally unfavourable interim report this week. The weapons inspectors announced Monday that they required more time to determine whether Iraq indeed possesses such weapons.
Commenting on Mandela's outburst, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said: "The president (Bush) expresses his gratitude to the many leaders of Europe who obviously feel differently... He understands there are going to be people who are more comfortable doing nothing about a growing menace that could turn into a holocaust," said Fleischer.
However Mandela rebuked Iraq for not cooperating fully with the weapons inspectors. He announced that South Africa would support any measures taken against Iraq by the UN.
Mandela implied in his remarks about Bush, which were also critical of British prime minister Tony Blair, that American policy on Iraq was motivated more by financial than human rights concerns. "All that [the U.S.] wants is Iraqi oil," Mandela said.
Blair, he added, was simply "the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain."
President Bush insists the U.S. would be justified in taking on President Saddam militarily, even if the UN does not authorise an attack.
France and Germany are among a number of countries publicly opposed to Bushs policy on Iraq. The American leader has indicated that he would like to set a deadline for the Iraqis to demonstrate they have disarmed.
"Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the ones that should decide for the people of Iraq what should be done with their government and their leadership?" asked Mandela, accusing Bush of "trying to bring about carnage".
Mandela took issue with both Bush and Blair who he said were disregarding the authority of the UN and undermining its African secretary-general, Kofi Annan, who comes from Ghana. Mandela became personal in his accusations and launched a verbal attack on the two men, asking: "Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white."
Africas best known statesman said the UN was the chief reason why a third world war had been avoided and urged that any decisions on Iraq should be dealt with by the UN. Mandela has been consistently critical of Bushs handling of the Iraqi question over recent months, a view widely mirrored in other parts of Africa among leaders, politicians and ordinary people.
Mandelas comments also echo the official view from South Africa. His successor, President Thabo Mbeki, said this week: "We do not believe there is anything that has been said which says there is a need to go to war [with Iraq]". Mbeki is scheduled to meet Blair this weekend, just after the British prime minister has finished a summit with Bush at Camp David on Friday.
Analysts in South Africa predict that another conflict in the Gulf would mean a hike in domestic oil prices and other economic consequences. Similar concern is being expressed in the columns of newspapers in several African countries.
