A federal appeals court has ruled for the first time that religious believers can invoke the First Amendment when declining to participate in same-sex weddings.
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Saturday, August 31, 2019
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Jehovah’s Witnesses adopt assistive listening tech
Temple Farm is a new 84-acre UK headquarters for the International Bible Students Association (IBSA) located near Chelmsford, Essex. The site has up to 1,000 volunteer workers per day alongside a small number of . . .
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Federal Court Strikes Blow for Free Speech and Religious Freedom
Earlier today, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutional order, limited the reach of expansive nondiscrimination laws, and protected a Christian couple from having to choose between their business and their conscience.
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Friday, August 23, 2019
FYI - Greenland’s glaciers are actually growing ?
NASA studies from 2016 show that the Antarctic is accumulating more ice every year. On average, the South Pole is gaining between 82 and 112 billion tons of ice per year.
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What's up with "Drag Queen Storytime" ?
A registered child sex offender has been reading to children at Houston Public Library as part of its Drag Queen Storytime.
A group called Mass Resistance, which has been trying to put an end to the program, contacted KHOU about the child sex offender.
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She Found Her Grandfather's Fortune
Before 18 year old GuiFeng's grandfather died, his deathbed wishes changed the course of her life. He regretted not having a monetary inheritance to give. In fact, it had been taken. But
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
Jehovah’s Witnesses brought message of love to St. Louis
It is ironic that Jehovah’s Witnesses have often been persecuted for their political neutrality. They have accomplished, without politics, what politics is supposed to produce — a well-functioning, diverse community.
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Revamped Watchtower Complex
For decades, the inside of Brooklyn’s famed Watchtower building was mostly hidden from public view — a private space that was the Jehovah's Witnesses' global headquarters. Now, three years after . . .
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Montego Bay Convention Centre hosts Jehovah's Witnesses 'Love Never Fails' conventions
Scores of Jehovah's Witnesses from western Jamaica and other parts of the island, as well as Europe, the USA and Canada, will tomorrow begin the final in a series of three-day conventions that began last weekend at Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St James.
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Neighbor Next Door: Jehovah's Witnesses - video
Robert Hendriks, spokesman for the Jehovah's Witnesses explains their religion and discusses an upcoming convention in Houston.
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Jailed Danish Jehovah’s Witness Accuses Russian Guards of Planting Knife
A Danish Jehovah’s Witness jailed in Russia on extremism charges has accused prison guards of “planting” a knife and then filming its discovery in his cell, the religious organization said.
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Sunday, August 18, 2019
Jehovah's Witnesses, Largest Conventions In Over 400 Languages, 200 Countries
One of the largest global conventions in 2019, spanning six continents and over 200 countries and presented in over 400 languages, will be coming to Lagos and surrounding cities between the weekends of August 30 and December 20.
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Downed trees destroy multiple homes, injure one Charlotte woman
The Sotelo’s say they’re overwhelmed with gratitude for two congregations coming to help them move everything out of their home.
“I am Jehovah’s Witness and I give thanks to God and our brotherhood as a family," said Sotelo.
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Saturday, August 17, 2019
Armenian priests promote the Good News by their example.
Many times actions do speak quite a bit louder than words. In this case it was the un-Christian combativeness of two Armenian priests that led to the Truth to be spread in a town in Armenia.
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Are Jehovah's Witnesses Extremists?
Indeed, in early May 2019, there were 186 Jehovah’s Witnesses facing criminal charges for practicing their faith in Russia.
“On Combating Extremist Activity”, extremism is defined as “propaganda of exclusivity, superiority or inferiority of a person on the basis of their religious affiliation or attitude toward religion.”
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Religion restrictions increase
Government restrictions on religion have increased markedly in many places around the world, not only in authoritarian countries, but also in many of Europe’s democracies, according to a report surveying 198 countries that was released Monday.
Pew said the biggest increase in religious hostility by individuals occurred in Europe. Victims of violence, in incidents cited in the report, include Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ukraine and a rabbi and a Muslim woman in Belgium.
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Parents, family of Jordan Anchondo say goodbye to young mother of three
The young mother, only 24, was killed in the mass shooting at the Eastside Walmart a week ago along with her husband Andre Anchondo, as they tried to protect their 2-month-old son Paul.
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Accused of “Foreign Infiltration,” Japanese Jehovah’s Witnesses Deported
CCP is surveilling and arresting foreign missionaries across China as part of a nationwide campaign, forcing believers to meet in hiding and conceal their faith.
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Suspicious package left at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Scottsdale
Several streets were closed down in Scottsdale while police investigated a suspicious package left at a Jehovah's Witness house of worship on Thursday night.
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Russian human rights advocates check reports on torture of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Chairman of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov has met in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area with the Jehovah's Witnesses adepts, who had earlier complained of tortures, the advisory body’s press service reports.
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A juvenile threatened to blow up the congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
Two elders of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness in Beaver Dam received separate text messages threatening that their congregation and other meetings would be blown up Sunday.
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