a jw family member informed me they are filling out an application to preach the truth in israel.
interested ones in the congregation were asked to start saving now, as the cost of the flights would be their own responsibility.
the time frame for this preaching work is for a couple of weeks in may/june 2017. the applications are to be turned in this sunday.
They read the letter last week. The stress was that Israel is very safe and sisters are encouraged to apply. They want witnesses to go for 2 weeks or more. They did it last year and it appears that this is going to be a yearly campaign.
The dubs are lapping it up and many , even ones that don't have 2 stones to rub together will be be going. They call it going where the "need is great" but I think it "going where the need is FUN".
hi everyone;i'm not on here too much anymore, but i've been asked to write a brief biography of our dear grace gough ('mouthy' on here).
i'm writing my own memories of her but it was also suggested that i maybe contact others who knew her to see if they had a nice memory or two of her they'd like to share.
it would only have to be a paragraph or two and your name can be kept confidential if you like.
If it's AAWA, it would be sad to see them using Grace's memory for self-publicity purposes.
I agree with Simon. I am not crazy about AAWA personally and would NOT like to see Grace's biography appear on their site either.
so as i announced last week, my wife and i started our fade and i sent in a letter to our body that i was stepping down and cited the arc as the reason and insisted that we not be bothered.
my wife told a few relatives in person that we weren't going to attend meetings any longer (immediate shunning occurred, the new videos must be effective) and that what we found with the arc shocked us etc etc.
i have an inside track on how this is all going down by an awake elder on the body, co told them to handle the matter quickly.
Depending on what you said to others and if others perceive that it's apostasy, then you might be heading towards the chopping block.
as per barbara anderson's post two months ago - today, wednesday 16 november 2016, in an historic landmark, the barcelonian based newspaper el periódico's website has published the first ever publicly reported case of child sexual abuse within the jehovah's witnesses in spain.. a penal code was introduced in spain in 1995, which specified an age of consent of 12 for all sexual acts, this was then raised to 13 in 1999. currently, under a new law which came into effect on 1 july 2015, the age of consent in spain is 16, which rises to 18 if there is deception or abuse of a recognized position of trust, authority or influence over the minor.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ages_of_consent_in_europe#spain.
jehovah's witness in spain were forbidden from public manifestations of faith until they where legally recognized in the country on friday 10 july 1970, in accordance with the religious liberty law of 1967.. at the time of legal recognition there were some 11,041 active jw's in spain which had a population then of just over 32 million (a ratio of 1-in-2,908 ).. in the following two years 144 kingdom halls were legalized and inaugurated, and the number of active jw's increased by 42% to 15,668 with the memorial attended by some 40,000.. at the time it was claimed that the jw's were the second-largest religious group in the country (second only to the catholics).. after 230 years, spain abolished compulsory military service in 2001.. today there are 109,457 active jw's in spain which has a current population 46,439,864 (a ratio 1-in-417 - to compare, the usa ratio is currently 1-in-261 ).. under the heading a religious organization under investigation, el periódico has published the following three articles:los testigos de jehová a una niña violada: "si lo cuentas, te quedarás sin paraíso".
una mujer de 29 años denuncia que fue agredida sexualmente y coaccionada para silenciarlo hace 21 años.
There is another thread to talks about this.
weblink: http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/sociedad/nueva-denuncia-contra-testigos-jehova-por-ocultar-abusos-sexuales-pederasta-5631962.
a religious organization under suspect.
the jehovah's witnesses to a raped girl: "if you tell it, you will be without paradise".
Thank you for bringing this to the fore.
i don't know whether anyone else has posted a thread on this development:.
http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.
I was just about to post this too. I am so happy that the Royal Commission will continue to keep this in the forefront.
the wts has always included minors and adults in the same categories - publisher and baptized.. i am interested in knowing how many minors, approximately, are included in the publisher count.
and, at what age a person started publishing.
what age was the youngest publisher reported?.
Publisher at 10, baptized at 13
for your information, tomorrow some new child abuse cases will be featured in www.elperiodico.es newspaper.
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as soon as new information will be available, we will keep you informed.. some more victims do want to speak and talk about their personal experiences..
instead of making a new thread for every little thing related to memorial 2017, i'm going to try to post here.
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and to start us off.... cart artwork for 2017 memorial invitations.
Well, they finally managed to take Jesus completely out of the picture
Sir82, I was thinking the same thing. They call it an event now??
i have argued with several jws who are now being trained to deny the org ever said the end in 75, what is your approach?.
