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 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.

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.

A former Shannon freezing worker [and a Jehovah's Witness] who physically and sexually abused his stepchildren will spend five years in prison. The 45-year-old man, who cannot be named because it would identify his victims, was sentenced in Levin District Court yesterday on 10 historic charges of indecent assault and assault, which occurred between 1991 and 1996 at the family home in Shannon.

Article Source: The Sun.co.uk
THE monstrous stepdad of Baby P has become a JEHOVAH’S WITNESS in jail.
Sadistic brute Steven Barker, 33, keeps a bible in his cell and has told prison staff that he has “found God at last”.
Last night officers tasked with guarding the beast from attacks by fellow cons remained dubious about the motive for his sudden conversion.
But a senior source at Wakefield prison in West Yorkshire insisted: “Barker is deadly serious about his new faith.”

Article Source: The Press Enterprise
A Murrieta man accused of beating his wife to death so he could collect $1.3 million from life insurance policies was “drowning in debt” and appears to have done Internet research on murder methods, the prosecution argued Wednesday during the trial’s opening statements in a French Valley courtroom.
Kelle Lee Jarka, 40, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Isabelle Jarka, 40, his wife of nearly two decades and the mother of his two

Article source: Forum 18, By Geraldine Fagan, Forum 18 News Service
Four lawyers defending Jehovah’s Witnesses have been deported since March, Forum 18 News Service has learned. The deportations of the two American and two Canadian lawyers seriously hinder the Witnesses’ attempts to defend themselves in seven local court cases seeking to ban their literature as extremist.
The deportations of four lawyers since March strike at the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ already pressed defence against attempts to ban their literature as extremist, one of those deported, Mario Moreno, has told Forum 18 News Service. …

Article source: Radio Free Europe
Authorities in the ethnic Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh region are refusing to allow Jehovah’s Witnesses and another nontraditional religious group from legally operating in the self-proclaimed republic, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports.
A new law adopted by the Karabakh parliament obligated all religious denominations to reregister with a government department on religious affairs within a six-month period.