The Jehovah's Witnesses must pay $48,000 in court costs to the Crown for a string of failed cases brought against the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. The Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses Australasia sought a judicial review…[Continue Reading...]
The Jehovah's Witnesses fought hard to avoid the scrutiny of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. Now the inquiry report has found 'credible evidence' that child sex abuse occurred within the faith - and no evidence that…[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...]
An ex-Jehovah's Witness who felt "shunned" by her church after her divorce believes leaving her congregation was the best decision she's made. Ieva Brown, 41, joined the Jehovah's Witnesses - a Christian-based religious group - in 1996 at just 14…[Continue Reading...]
There were 47 child abuse cases apparently reflecting parents' religious beliefs in Japan between April 2022 and September 2023, a Children and Families Agency survey showed Friday. The suspected abuse cases were found by child consultation centers across the country,…[Continue Reading...]
Jehovah's Witnesses Watchtower office in New York City. A California appellate court has upheld a $4-plus million judgment against Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York Inc., the top organizational body of Jehovah's Witnesses, in a case brought by…[Continue Reading...]
The faith community seems to be trying to get a better position in the appeal case in Norway. The community came under attack for its rigid rules regarding discipline to “baptised minors”. Among Jehovah’s Witnesses, it is usual that children…[Continue Reading...]
The High Court has made orders allowing a hospital to give a blood transfusion, if necessary, to a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses. The order was made by Mr Justice Tony O'Connor, who said that he accepted that the patient's…[Continue Reading...]
A former Jehovah's Witness elder has been committed to stand trial for raping and sexually abusing young men on the Sunshine Coast over a 10-year period. Police arrested 62-year-old Mooloolaba man Peter Mitchelson in August 2022 and charged him with…[Continue Reading...]
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