UPDATE: This site had been recently compromised and damaged. Nearly all the pages, posts, comments and documents have been recovered. This includes almost all the legal documents and Watchtower-related historical files from the 1800s to the present. Most of the pictures have not yet been replaced.
ALSO, I am now happy to include the document archives of a late, great friend who had worked tirelessly to study the history and methods of the Watchtower organization. The depth and detail of his work speaks for itself: Link (soon) to THE ALAN FEUERBACHER ARCHIVE. Link (NOW) to Alan’s most recent “LETTER TO THE GOVERNING BODY”
Barbara Anderson has a massive collection of documents, letters, and books representing nearly every decade since the 1830s. Her collection includes many old and long out-of-print volumes written by both supporters and critics of the Watch Tower Society and its founders.
Barbara Anderson was a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses from 1954 to 1997. Working at the Watchtower’s headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband Joe from 1982 to 1992, she researched and wrote articles for the Awake! magazine, as well as researched the movement’s official history published in 1993 as “Jehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom.”
Barbara’s discoveries at Bethel and her extensive research on issues related to child sexual abuse in the religion lead to her becoming an outspoken critic of the Jehovah’s Witnesses sexual abuse policies on major TV and radio programs.
Please note: This site was recently compromised and damaged. The site is being restored, and so far, most of the pages and posts and document files have been recovered. Most of the photos and other images have not yet been recovered although we are in the process of restoring many of them. While the site is being restored you may find that several of the news articles may be more easily found on the Watchtower Documents Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WatchtowerDocs
Also note that many links to original news sources may have changed and become unavailable.
Revised interpretations of three scriptures prompt organizational changes, accompanied by a recent decision regarding dress attire made by the Governing Body (aka Jehovah). From: https://avoidjw.org/news/shocking-changes-2024-gb-update-2/ Written by Miss Usato first published March 15, 2024 On March 15th, 2024, Governing Body Member Mark… Read more: Shocking Doctrinal Changes in 2024 Governing Body Update #2
On Saturday, August 19, 2023, at 4:45 Central Standard Time, 5:45 EST, Barbara interviewed a former JW, Efrain Rivera, who has a fascinating story to share about his life as a JW. Efrain, a native New Yorker was raised in Puerto Rico… Read more: Barbara Anderson Interviews Efrain Rivera about his life as a JW
Note: The following story has since been updated. It has been confirmed that this is a “former community member” —a shocking incident. The mother was seven months pregnant. Officers of the peace are reported to have found people with gunshot wounds on… Read more: 8 dead. What’s wrong in the JW community?
“Senate Bill 5280, and its companion bill in the state House (HB 1098), would make it illegal for clergy not to report sexual abuse allegations to authorities unless the information came in the form of a confession,” explains Wilson Criscione reporting for… Read more: Washington lawmakers propose bill requiring clergy to report child abuse
Christmas morning was shocking in this typically quiet suburban Denver, Colorado neighborhood. A former Jehovah’s witness man shot and killed his wife then killed himself on Christmas at the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall in Thornton, Colorado, police said. The “Adams County Sheriff’s… Read more: Shocking Murder-Suicide at Kingdom Hall in Colorado
Stephen Unthank dives into an interview with the popular exJW YouTuber who goes by the alias ‘Goatlike Personality’ covering recent news updates from the case in Pennsylvania with recently elected Governor and former Attorney General Josh Shapiro, as well as what’s going… Read more: Pennsylvania & Norway news updates
Re: Norway and the Watchtower’s new European “Freedom of Worship Office” This opening of this new ‘office’ in Europe appears to be the Watchtower’s answer to being exposed as a worldwide anti-human rights organization at the 2022 OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw,… Read more: Norway update from OSCE delegate post-2022 conference
In Washington, clergy — unlike teachers, physicians, and law enforcement — are not listed as mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect. In 1975, Washington lawmakers removed clergy members from its mandatory reporter list leaving the state with one of the nation’s… Read more: How Washington State Law Lets Clergy Hide Child Sexual Abuse
“Yes, I saw [Geoffrey] Jackson at the plenary. He entered the hall 5 minutes before my speech. He did not speak, and immediately after my speech, he disappeared. I really wanted to take a picture with him, since he most likely did… Read more: OSCE 2022 Update: Governing Body Listens & Leaves
We will share reporting from WatchtowerDocuments.org after the #OSCE event provided by Yergali Abishev, your special delegate sent to Warsaw, Poland with the support of your generous donation. “In 2019, it became known that Jehovah’s Witnesses are using the political platform of… Read more: Raising Funds to Send Delegate to OSCE
