Month: September 2021

Australia Police continue investigation into fire at Jehovah’s Witnesses hall

MORE than a week after a devastating fire at the Raglan Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, the community is no closer to finding out how the fire was started or who was responsible. Emergency services...

Russia: Five of Jehovah’s Witnesses are sentenced to 6 to 6.5 years in prison

A court in the city of Volgograd in southwestern Russia sentenced Jehovah’s Witnesses to more than 6 years in prison each on extremism charges Thursday, the religious organization said in a statement. The Traktorozavodsky district...

Turkmenistan Pardons More Than 2,000 Prisoners

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has issued a pardon to more than 2,000 prisoners ahead of the former Soviet state's Independence Day on September 27. State media reported on September 20 that the authoritarian president signed...

Sharing Hope Through Letters & Drawings

Following their decision to suspend in-person preaching in response to Covid-19, Jehovah’s Witness have shifted to “sharing a positive Bible message with their neighbours through letters and phone calls.” A spokesperson said, “With her bouquet...

After 9/11, some found healing by helping

Diane Coxe’s mind could not accept what her eyes were seeing. Running late for her job at a law firm in the World Trade Center, Coxe had just emerged from a train station when a...