Watch this story closely as it develops: A convicted felony sex offender who is also a Jehovah’s Witness in Ohio is fighting for the “right” to go preaching door-to-door.

The recent and devastating earthquake in Haiti needs no introduction. We have all seen the heartbreaking and almost incomprehensible images in the news. I am here to tell you about a movement that is being organized by a number of former Jehovah’s Witnesses from around the world.
Our aim? To rally other ex Jehovah’s Witnesses to stand up and support Haitian Earthquake survivors. When we were still Jehovah’s Witnesses few if any of us ever donated humanitarian aid. Any aid that was given through the world headquarters of the Watchtower Society …

A missing Anchorage woman who was a Jehovah’s Witness has been found dead of exposure outside her local Kingdom Hall. Police have said that Rosario left all her belongings at the house and may have been suicidal.

According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses could quite possibly the largest single landowner in Brooklyn, N.Y. except that is for the government. What’s clear is that the organization, owns a staggering amount of Brooklyn real estate, and is certainly the largest single property owner, at least in the Brooklyn Heights area.

The writers of the Watchtower magazine have the audacity to group higher education in with detrimental activities such as drug and alcohol abuse. While they don’t overtly state that Jehovah’s Witness youth are forbidden from seeking post-secondary education, they use persuasive metaphors such as the one in this article as a way to discourage the pursuit of education.

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is organizing a march in the northeastern city of Dobrich on October 11, against the planned international congress of Jehovah’s Witnesses there. The Church is joined by the political parties VMRO and Bulgarian New Democracy. At their Thursday press conference the organizers voiced hope Dobrich’s citizens will also take part in the march.

Featured on the front page of The National Post: Jehovah’s Witnesses regularly transport sick children far from the reach of child welfare authorities — and the possibility of forced transfusions — before the cases can turn into high-profile court battles. Witnesses stake out the hospital rooms of children around the clock, mostly to offer support but sometimes hustling the patients away when it seems likely an attempt will be made to impose a transfusion.

The year is 1983. Mr. K, a kindly Jehovah’s Witness man and his wife knock on the door of a typical middle-class, suburban home. He doesn’t know that his return visit is about to ask him not to return, that Mr. B has only been being polite in taking his Watchtower magazines and nothing more. But something else is about to happen. A seemingly small event will trigger a drastic shift that will change the lives of that family forever — even two yet-unborn children. It will be a change that will tear the family apart, cause desperation and inconsolable sorrow.

After many months of collaborative effort across the online ex-JW community, it is my privilege to be able to present the first ever online magazine for doubting, exiting and former Jehovah’s Witnesses.
JWRecovery Magazine is a completely free, collaborative journal designed to provide easily accessible information and support assistance to ex Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world. It is our hope that the information contained within, in a new alternative format, will be another convenient touch-point for those seeking information and recovery help.

Police in Khujand, northern Tajikistan, detained 17 followers of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who are banned in this country, a source at the country’s Interior Ministry told Interfax on Friday. “They were using the houses as a place of worship, which is banned by law,” he said.

In 2009, while the world is celebrating Charles Darwin’s 200th birth anniversary, US scientists have a unique challenge: to convince 60% of their countrymen that God did not create man. It might seem odd that a country, which has won the maximum number of Nobel prizes, sent a man to the moon, and has the best universities in the world, takes the antediluvian creation myth in the book of Genesis literally.