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  Russian authorities nab Jehovah’s Witnesses for dumping waste

  by objectivetruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20141107/272536636.html.

  st. petersburg, november 7 (rapsi) environmental prosecutors office for st. petersburg have uncovered violations by the russian jehovahs witnesses chapter, according to the statement issued by the prosecution on friday.. the prosecutors office reports that the religious organization dumped waste in a creek that flows into the gulf of finland, in upstate st. petersburg, without any permit.. the neva-ladoga water authority confirmed that in 2013, jehovahs witnesses dumped more than 30 thousand cubic meters of waste into the creek.

  in 2014, authorities detected a rise in concentrations in ammonium lignosulphonate and fluoride, in violation of the on environmental protection federal law and water code of russian federation.. the prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against dumping waste into the creek.

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  TheOldHippie

  "illegally occupying a body of water"

  Yeah, sure ....................
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  Russian authorities nab Jehovah’s Witnesses for dumping waste

  by objectivetruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20141107/272536636.html.

  st. petersburg, november 7 (rapsi) environmental prosecutors office for st. petersburg have uncovered violations by the russian jehovahs witnesses chapter, according to the statement issued by the prosecution on friday.. the prosecutors office reports that the religious organization dumped waste in a creek that flows into the gulf of finland, in upstate st. petersburg, without any permit.. the neva-ladoga water authority confirmed that in 2013, jehovahs witnesses dumped more than 30 thousand cubic meters of waste into the creek.

  in 2014, authorities detected a rise in concentrations in ammonium lignosulphonate and fluoride, in violation of the on environmental protection federal law and water code of russian federation.. the prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against dumping waste into the creek.

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  TheOldHippie

  Just look at the second latest news cited:

  MOSCOW, August 1 (RAPSI) – The Namangan police in eastern Uzbekistan have arrested members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religion for trying to convert local Muslims and for holding secret prayer meetings, a local police officer told RIA Novosti on Friday.

  “We stopped an illegal meeting of this organization and found print and electronic media in the meeting room that we collected for further review,” the source said. All of the arrested are Uzbek citizens.

  Under the Uzbek law on the freedom of conscience and religious associations, religious literature can only be used by registered religious associations within its registration area. The law also prohibits religious propaganda.

  The arrested could face a fine of up to 100 times the minimum wage (about $5,000 at the Central Bank of Uzbekistan exchange rate).

  Over 2,200 religious associations have been registered in Uzbekistan. More than 90% of them are Muslim organizations, but there are also 159 Christian organizations, eight Jewish and six Baha’i communities, one Hare Krishna society and one Buddhist pagoda in Uzbekistan.
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  Russian authorities nab Jehovah’s Witnesses for dumping waste

  by objectivetruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20141107/272536636.html.

  st. petersburg, november 7 (rapsi) environmental prosecutors office for st. petersburg have uncovered violations by the russian jehovahs witnesses chapter, according to the statement issued by the prosecution on friday.. the prosecutors office reports that the religious organization dumped waste in a creek that flows into the gulf of finland, in upstate st. petersburg, without any permit.. the neva-ladoga water authority confirmed that in 2013, jehovahs witnesses dumped more than 30 thousand cubic meters of waste into the creek.

  in 2014, authorities detected a rise in concentrations in ammonium lignosulphonate and fluoride, in violation of the on environmental protection federal law and water code of russian federation.. the prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against dumping waste into the creek.

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  TheOldHippie

  Outside source? There is no such thing in today's Russia. The days of high hopes lasted for a decade or so, and then the country vanished into some sort of nationalist - orthodox-Christian - police-state type of nation, ruled by the Father in Cremlin, who used to be the Czar, then was Stalin, then was Brezhnew, then is Putin. The judicial system, acting as the government's prolonged arm, will do anything to stop the JW community, and since the European judicial system has halted its attempts at stopping them thru labelling them extremists etc., they now resort to fabricating stuff against them. I guess no country has ever been polluting its environment more than has Russia (for example Lake Aral), so this accussation is just ridiculous.
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  Can a JW go home for Christmas ??

  by Clambake in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  jw love to make a big deal about christmas but the reality is alot of people have time off work from christmas to new years.

  we like to go home.

  with me being an ubm does it become an issue within the cong ?

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  TheOldHippie

  I've always gone home for Christmas.
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  Child sex abuse cases mentioned at weekly meeting?

  by HeyThere in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  okay, tonight someone told me that one of the elders actually addressed the child sex abuse cases at the weeknight meeting this past week.

  she said the speaker said that accusations are being made against the truth but that they should stand firm in the truth and that they are going to continue fighting these allegations and that all should stand firm for jehovah or some similar comments.... did anyone else hear this from the stage?.

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  TheOldHippie

  A few years ago, when accusations were spread in newspapers and television in some European countries, a special talk was given at a service meeting and the branches in question prepared a letter that was read to the congregations, so it is not always kept quiet.
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  It is official they're selling off Kingdom Halls in Britain

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i posted here a week ago some disturbing news for congregations being consolidated in britain.

  my goodness that was nothing !

  a letter was read today from bethel addressed to all congregations in britain that can only be described as the biggest news for years.the main points:.

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  TheOldHippie

  Nothing new. Just old Britain finally following what has taken place elsewhere worldwide during the last year.
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  Millerites, Jehovahs Witnesses and Purple Triangles

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i came across this after posting another iq video to a different topic.

  interesting how much the jehovahs witnesses are featured ... but it is because they are a millenial cult with failed rapture prophecies:.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chug6f0tnfg.

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  TheOldHippie

  "Rebel, I am not sure which account is historically accurate When I found the photo, I thought the dress was more reminiscent of late 1800s fashion. I thought it possible that the photo was taken in 1874 - the 'first'Russell rapture."

  Look at his face - he was not that old in '74. The picture is taken on his Middle East trip way later.
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  Zone Visit: An Announcement That Will "Test Your Faith"

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the scuttlebutt in one of the "bethel congregations" by us.. no details as to exactly what this "faith-testing" announcement might be.. anyone else hear any of this pre-zone visit hype?.

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  TheOldHippie

  Credit card donations accepted.

  Is that NEW in the US? In Europe it has been done for years and years.
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  Zone Visit: An Announcement That Will "Test Your Faith"

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the scuttlebutt in one of the "bethel congregations" by us.. no details as to exactly what this "faith-testing" announcement might be.. anyone else hear any of this pre-zone visit hype?.

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  TheOldHippie

  Nothing exiting will come. They have the annual meetings for that, not these regional zone visits, they are held regularly and no breath-taking revelation will be dropped to one continent some months before it is dropped to another.
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  New JW assembly/meeting that has prerecorded message? Lasts half a day

  by HillCountry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sorry about the confused nature of the topic but my mom (who still goes to the kh meetings) said that there will be an "assembly" on sunday where there will be a prerecorded message or talk of some sort and that it will only be half a day and won't need to bring lunch.

  anyone else have heard of these or gone to one?.

  i know they are changing a lot of things.

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  TheOldHippie

  Just the zone visit which is piped to all congregations having the equipment. Nothing sensational or new.