InquiryMan

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  The floodgates are about to open in the UK.. Sunday Times article

  by defender of truth in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  jehovah church faces flood of sex abuse cases.

  "a woman who was abused from the age of four by a senior officer of the jehovahs witnesses has lodged a 500,000 claim for compensation in a test case that could open the door to hundreds more suits involving members of the religious organisation in the uk.".

  http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/crime/article1525363.ece.

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  Surprised though, that a serious newspaper use a somewhat inaccurate term as Jehovah church instead of the proper name of the organization involved.
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  WT now promoting literature officially at book fairs

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can there really be any doubt now on how commercial it is?

  if you thought the new kh design seemed commercial in nature, now imagine one of those halls turned into a jw store.

  we know they exist.

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  In Croatia, too. Visited by the president of the republic.

  
  International book fair in Croatia, even visited by the president of the country.
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  What's with this "no windows in kingdom halls" thing?

  by Trapped in JW land in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i hear many people on this forum say that kh's don't have windows.

  but i have never been to one that didn't have windows.

  is this only in a certain area or something?.

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  I have been in kingdom halls in more than a dozen countries. All had windows. I guess this is mainly a US thing...
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  I'm Shocked The Jehovah's Witnesses Even Allow Their Kids To Go To Mainstream Schools.

  by Jehovanomics in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  judging by the material that my kid brings home on a daily basis in copius amounts.

  everything about everything in elementary school goes against the doctrines of the jehovah's witnesses.

  how do jw's expect to make any money if all of their kids are defecting the jw's?

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  Fortunaly homeschooling is more of a USA thing...
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  The Hum Drum Lives of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  boring and useless, a waste of valuable time..

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  I see many JWs leading a rather full life at the same time being active... So did I when I was in. Visited a lot of countries, read many books, (including all the WT literature), watched TV, went to the movies...
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  Abuse among JWs once again highlighted on national TV / Norway

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the major commercial tv network in norway, has once again highlighted abuse within religious communities.

  the only group not willing to reveal any information on abuse cases is jehovahs witnesses.

  this case is highlighted very prominently on their web site today and will most likely be on their evening news tonight (i reckon).. http://www.tv2.no/2014/12/01/nyheter/overgrep/6261340.

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  bttt
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  Abuse among JWs once again highlighted on national TV / Norway

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the major commercial tv network in norway, has once again highlighted abuse within religious communities.

  the only group not willing to reveal any information on abuse cases is jehovahs witnesses.

  this case is highlighted very prominently on their web site today and will most likely be on their evening news tonight (i reckon).. http://www.tv2.no/2014/12/01/nyheter/overgrep/6261340.

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  Today, more coverage was given to this subject:

  This article also hightlights the financial issues involved here:

  http://www.tv2.no/2014/12/03/nyheter/overgrep/6261244

  this article hightlights a support group for people who have left various high control religious groups.

  http://www.tv2.no/2014/12/03/nyheter/overgrep/6287887
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  Abuse among JWs once again highlighted on national TV / Norway

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the major commercial tv network in norway, has once again highlighted abuse within religious communities.

  the only group not willing to reveal any information on abuse cases is jehovahs witnesses.

  this case is highlighted very prominently on their web site today and will most likely be on their evening news tonight (i reckon).. http://www.tv2.no/2014/12/01/nyheter/overgrep/6261340.

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  And thus, the media get their headlines...
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  Abuse among JWs once again highlighted on national TV / Norway

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the major commercial tv network in norway, has once again highlighted abuse within religious communities.

  the only group not willing to reveal any information on abuse cases is jehovahs witnesses.

  this case is highlighted very prominently on their web site today and will most likely be on their evening news tonight (i reckon).. http://www.tv2.no/2014/12/01/nyheter/overgrep/6261340.

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  And thus, the media get their headlines...
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  Abuse among JWs once again highlighted on national TV / Norway

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the major commercial tv network in norway, has once again highlighted abuse within religious communities.

  the only group not willing to reveal any information on abuse cases is jehovahs witnesses.

  this case is highlighted very prominently on their web site today and will most likely be on their evening news tonight (i reckon).. http://www.tv2.no/2014/12/01/nyheter/overgrep/6261340.

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  This is not new. There has been a lot of negative publicity concerning esp. abuse and DF practices among JWs for decades in the Scandianvian countries, esp in Denmark and Norway, but lately Sweden has had an increase in bad JW publicity. Also in Finland there has been a lot of TV/media coverage on JWs.

  The August peak point of Norway was close to 12,000 (ca. 11,700). When i left the witnesses more than ten years ago they had about 10,500 reporting at most as far as I remember. Considering Norway is a very secular country, this number is fairly "good" seen from the witnesses point of view.