Watchtower Bible World Headquarters Project In Ramapo Moves Ahead

Town of Ramapo Accepts Final Environmental Impact Statement On Proposed 1.7 Million Square Foot Project On 200+ Acre Parcel Plans by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. have scaled another hurdle...

Jehovah’s Witnesses Mark 20th Anniversary of Supreme Court Ruling

While Jehovah’s Witnesses have chosen to temporarily suspend their door-to-door ministry due to the pandemic, their activity was almost permanently banned by one U.S. village in the late 1990s — that is until the United...

Protecting free speech: Tulare County residents reflect on impact of historic Supreme Court ruling

While Jehovah’s Witnesses have chosen to temporarily suspend their door-to-door ministry due to the pandemic, their activity was almost permanently banned by one U.S. village in the late 1990s — that is until the United...

Watchtower Bible And Tract Society Urging Town Of Ramapo To Act On Its Application In Timely Manner

Over the past eight months, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has reviewed public and other comments on its proposed development for 155 Sterling Mine Road in Ramapo and has revised its plans. On Monday,...

Jehovah’s Witnesses keeping congregants active, safe

Longtime Tulare County resident Jeanie Vollmer would knock on doors or chat with passersby at a local park in Lindsay as part of her volunteer ministry five days a week. That abruptly changed in the...

Stephen A. Smith Apologizes to Jehovah’s Witnesses After Incorrectly Claiming They’re Against the Covid Vaccine

Stephen A. Smith issued an apology to Jehovah’s Witnesses Thursday during the broadcast of “First Take” on ESPN, walking back comments from last week suggesting adherents to the religion don’t believe in vaccines. “I could...

Ministry bears witness to change in outreach

Many people have been affected over the course or nearly two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This has proved to be challenging times for Jehovah’s Witnesses as they are now meeting virtually...

Burned out from lingering pandemic, some on front lines find faith an antidote

When the Omicron variant started emerging around the country, Registered Nurse Currine Smith flashed back to the despair she felt at the beginning of the pandemic. Now entering the third year of COVID, she describes...

U.S. joins appeal condemning repression of Jehovah’s Witnesses

The U.S. and six other countries Friday issued a joint declaration condemning repression of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the evangelizing Christian denomination that has faced severe state opposition in many of the countries where it operates....

Norfolk couple help with Jehovah’s Witnesses campaign

Norfolk was one of the thousands of communities around the globe where volunteers spread out to help send a ‘message of hope’ in November as Jehovah’s Witnesses embarked upon a special campaign focusing attention on...

United States Adds Russia to Religious Freedom Blacklist

The United States on Wednesday updated its blacklist of countries “of particular concern” in terms of religious freedom. The government has thus added Russia but removed Nigeria, which was there last year, according to a...

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...

Columbus residents evacuated due to a fire in the apartment

Columbus, Mississippi (WCBI) – An early morning fire broke out in an apartment building, evacuating multiple families from smoke and water damage. Residents of the Columbus colony apartment were able to escape the flames. Only...

Plymouth woman arrested for attempting to set fire to Jehovah’s Witnesses church

A woman is in jail after allegedly attempting to set fire to a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on July 9. According to police, a vehicle hit the side of the church at 9019 Suter...

Jehovah’s Witnesses plan mega facility in Ramapo

RAMAPO – Residents can offer Ramapo officials their views on the Jehovah's Witnesses' planned mega audiovisual-dormitory complex and the development's environmental impacts. A written comment period is open until June 21. The Ramapo Town Board...

Rhonda LeRocque of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was one of the victims in the shooting on Las Vegas

Her mother, Priscilla Champagne, told CNN that LeRocque was a "beautiful woman inside and out.""A truly great mother, daughter, wife, aunt, sister, worker, and a good, kindhearted friend. She had a great faith in Jehovah...

Witnesses in the United States Cope With Impact of Hurricane Harvey

NEW YORK—Hurricane Harvey made landfall in the coastal city of Rockport, Texas, as a Category 4 storm on Friday, August 25, 2017. By Sunday, the hurricane had been downgraded to a tropical storm but continued to...