HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A former local Jehovah’s Witnesses elder was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing children decades ago, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office announced Friday. Norman Aviles-Garriga, 45, who was a Jehovah’s Witness elder in Lancaster County, will…[Continue Reading...]
At the age of 13, Luke Evans faced an impossible choice – either be true to himself and embrace his sexuality, or stay true to God. If he told his Jehovah’s Witness parents that he was gay, they would be…[Continue Reading...]
The world was supposed to end in 1975. Shayne Mechen was 7 years old and living in Hawke’s Bay when he waited for it to happen. He remembers a sense of dread, but perhaps there was some expectation too. As…[Continue Reading...]
A Lancaster County jury acquitted a Lancaster man of sexually assaulting his daughter over a five-year period 30 years ago. The jury deliberated about 90 minutes Tuesday before finding, 70, of the 400 block of Poplar Street, not guilty of…[Continue Reading...]
The NBA, or National Basketball Association, is a professional basketball league based in the United States of America with one team from Canada, the Toronto Raptors. It is considered the most successful basketball league of all time, generating billions of…[Continue Reading...]
Jehovah's Witnesses have failed in an eleventh hour attempt to block part of a lengthy report about abuse in care that is about them. Recommendations from a report into abuse that occurred in state and faith-based care will be made…[Continue Reading...]
A Reading man will serve up to 46 years in prison amid the Pennsylvania Attorney General‘s investigation into alleged sexual abuse of Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation members. Luis Manuel Ayala-Velasquez, 56, was arrested last year after a grand jury investigation where…[Continue Reading...]
A Kent woman is making it her mission to warn university students and others about a religious organization she says covered up sexual abuse she suffered by one of its leaders.Anna Ciano-Hendricks, a former Jehovah’s Witness, helped organize a protest…[Continue Reading...]
Jehovah's Witnesses, whose gathering in Kerala's Kalamassery was bombed by an extremist on Sunday, is a reformative religious movement that seeks to restore Christianity to what they believe is a purer form by expunging so-called corruptions from it. Their ultimate aim is to…[Continue Reading...]
The Cult Education Institute's historical archive about Jehovah's Witnesses is a large collection of articles concerning the organization's various controversies, which includes sexual abuse cases, personal stories, lawsuits, blood transfusions, its vast real estate holdings and great wealth. Take a…[Continue Reading...]
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