New hall for Witnesses

MEMBERS of Goole area Jehovah’s Witnesses are all set to move into a new home as work gets underway on a new £380,000 Kingdom Hall.Groundwork is currently being carried out on the site on Manor...

Aurora church catches fire early today, cause under investigation

A fire gutted a church in Aurora early this morning. The cause is still under investigation.The fire started at about 2:25 a.m. at 17701 E. Yale Ave., a Jehovah's Witness church, said Battalion Chief Cindy...

Blood-free kidney transplant carried out between two Jehovah’s Witnesses

Surgeons have performed a blood-free kidney transplant between Debra and Jade Gouldbourne, two Jehovah’s Witnesses – despite the patients not being a donor match.Doctors insisted on going ahead with the surgery, even though tests showed...

PARADISE What a Purrrrfect Present!

A Circuit Overseer in the Woodburn congregation said that the reason so many of our brothers are disfellowshipped isn't because of wrong doing, it's because the New System isn't a reality. Read this all the...

European court protects rights of conscientious objectors in Turkey

STRASBOURG, France—On November 22, 2011, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously concluded that Turkey has violated the right of freedom of conscience of Mr. Yunus Erçep, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Turkey, who...

Conscientious objectors face indefinite prison sentence for refusing to renounce faith

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan—Prison officials are threatening to indefinitely extend the prison terms for three of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who are prisoners of conscience in Uzbekistan. All three were sentenced for “unauthorized religious activities” that ranged from studying...

A History of the Sky

This is a year-long time-lapse study of the sky. A camera installed on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco captured an image of the sky every 10 seconds. From these images, I...

Criminal conviction in Russia seen as an “attack on freedom of expression and religion”

 GORNO-ALTAYSK, Russia—An appeal hearing contesting the criminal conviction of Aleksandr Kalistratov will be heard by the Supreme Court of the Altay Republic on December 22, 2011. Charged with inciting religious hatred, Kalistratov, one of Jehovah’s...

Religious publication promoting healthy living pronounced extremist

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—In a clandestine hearing, the Makarov District Court (Sakhalin region) found nine publications of Jehovah’s Witnesses, including a tract entitled Comfort for the Depressed, to be extremist. The copyright owner of the publications...

Tsunami Japanese inside a car!

Tsunami Japanese inside a car! Yu Muroga is a Japanese driver. It was his tour took place when the earthquake March 11, 2011. Like most people of his area, he did not feel threatened by...