A History-Making Meeting

“BY THE time this meeting is over, you will say, ‘This was truly a theocratic history-making annual meeting!’” With those words, Stephen Lett of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses intensified the sense of keen...

Where did the English Language begin?

Here is one explanation:English is descended from a language that emerged in Turkey 8,000 and 9,500 years ago, new research has suggested.Scientists traced the origin of all Indo-European languages to Anatolia, an ancient region of...

RUSSIA: One month in prison, another to follow

Jehovah's Witnesses Igor Yefimov and Aleksei Nikolaev, arrested in Chuvashia on 26 July, have been ordered held in continuing pre-trial detention until late September. "This is the first time in contemporary Russia that a court...

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...

RUSSIA: More JW books to be banned

 In two separate cases Russia's FSB security service in Kostroma Region, north-east of the capital Moscow, and Prosecutors in Primorskiy Territory, on the Pacific west of Sakhalin Island, have confiscated religious literature, Forum 18 News...

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...

Ireland Residents Attend Largest Ever Jehovah’s Witnesses Convention

Years after convention held in Ireland, witnessed by thousands. It was in 1978 last when such a convention was held in Christian community. Yesterday, more than 9,000 people were present at Jehovah's Witnesses convention in...

May Day—What Does It Mean to You?

What comes to your mind when you hear of May Day? Parades and demonstrations? Maypole dancing? A day off work?DEPENDING on where you live, completely different views of May Day may come to mind. But...

Anti JW Billboard in Russia

 A huge bilboard in Russia as a one of a series of rejections of the Truth, inspired by clergy and government.    

Citizen of Russia criminalized for being one of Jehovah’s Witnesses

AKHTUBINSK, Russia—On February 17, 2012, the Akhtubinsk District Court, in the southern Volga region of Russia, began hearing a criminal case against Yelena Grigorieva, a 44-year-old mother and grandmother. During the first court session, the...