Doctors find patients do better without blood transfusions

A recent study suggests that Jehovah's Witnesses are on to something. — In the Archives of Internal Medicine, doctors from the Cleveland Clinic reported last month that Witnesses who underwent cardiac surgery without a blood...

Witnesses to Relocate World Headquarters

In July 2009, Jehovah’s Witnesses purchased a plot of land in upstate New York with plans to relocate their world headquarters. The 102-hectare (253 a.) property is located about 80 kilometers (50 mi) northwest of...

New WT Video being filmed at DC

There was a full Bethel video production crew at the DC held in Amherst, MA this past weekend.  Large set lighting was set up inside the main entrance and the video crew spent much of...

Run, Idiot, Run

Br. Jackson of the governing body concluding a talk @ LA District Convention had this neat illustration at the very end of the convention.He said "What if you were watching a football game on TV...

Making the case for bloodless surgery

Jehovah's Witnesses base their refusal of blood transfusions on verses in several books of the Bible. Because North Sider Charles Taze Russell's teachings were the basis for those beliefs, it seems appropriate that Allegheny General...

Uzbekistan starts torturing Jehovah’s Witnesses

Police in Uzbekistan have for the first time used torture against a Jehovah's Witness, a 54-year-old woman from Horezm Region, by suffocating her to force a confession to importing religious literature.Gulchehra Abdullayeva, a resident of...

Spectacular Wedding Photo Showing the Milky Way Floating Overhead

Melbourne, Australia-based wedding photographer Lakshal Perera shot this stunning wedding photograph a few days ago showing the newlywed couple in the foreground and the Milky Way floating in the night sky. The scene was extremely...

UZBEKISTAN: Asphyxiation with a gas mask “amounts to torture”

 Jehovah's Witness paediatrician Gulchehra Abdullayeva has complained to four Uzbek state agencies and the United Nations over torture she says police inflicted on her. Abdullayeva says officers made her stand facing a wall for four...

RUSSIA – Jehovah’s Witnesses Charged with Extremism

Ten Jehovah's Witnesses in Chuvashia were charged Monday with criminal acts including the incitement of hatred and extremism in a case that is raising new worries about religious freedom in Russia."This situation is a serious...

Hiroshima—An Unforgettable Experience Survivors Tell Their Stories

FOR years it has been the same. At exactly 8:15 a.m., a hush falls over the throng of people gathered at the Peace Park, Hiroshima. They are observing a one-minute silence in memory of that...