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  • 8 dead. What’s wrong in the JW community?
    Officers of the peace are reported to have found people with gunshot wounds on the ground floor, and heard a shot from an upper floor and found a fatally wounded person upstairs who has been assumed to be the shooter. Police did not have to use their firearms. The investigation continues as the death count climbs in the news, as six brothers and sisters […]
  • 5 more Jehovah’s Witnesses charged with sexually abusing children are arrested in Pennsylvania
    Acting Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced sexual abuse charges against five members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, while four other Jehovah’s Witnesses were charged for similar acts in October 2022 by former Attorney General now-Governor Josh Shapiro. Read the press release for more information. Map of Jehovah’s Witnesses accused of child sex abuse in Pennsylvania provided by thesilenceofthelambsand.me/map.
  • Washington lawmakers propose bill requiring clergy to report child abuse
    “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 InvestigateWest. Watch Sara Young, a survivor of child sex abuse as a Jehovah’s Witness, testify on behalf of the bill. Currently, Washington […]
  • Norway’s decision to deny Jehovah’s Witnesses state support subsidies as a religious community
    The Religious Communities Act is essentially a subsidy act where the financial subsidy for Jehovah’s Witnesses’ 12,686 members last year amounted to approximately NOK 16 million. Under the Religious Communities Act, the Jehovah’s Witnesses are no longer a legally registered community in Norway due to their treatment of children, and their religious positions regarding the freedom of expression & religion of former members. The […]
  • Shocking Murder-Suicide at Kingdom Hall in Colorado
    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 Department Hazardous Material Unit is currently investigating suspicious devices found at the scene,” and that police are interviewing witnesses as part of […]
  • Eight victims listed in sexual assault on a child case against Jehovah’s Witness elder
    Colorado’s Teller County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of Shawn Lance Swisher on Tuesday, a 60-year-old Jehovah’s Witness man, an elder, who is suspected of sexually assaulting a child in the Woodland Park area. “An arrest affidavit for a Florissant man arrested on the charge of sexual assault on a child sheds light on the case, with allegations stretching back for decades and claims […]
  • Reactions to Jehovah’s Witnesses at Disney, otherwise known as the happiest place on earth
    In California, the Watchtower’s Jehovah’s Witnesses are allowed to set up their ‘witnessing’ tables with absolutely nothing Disney can do about it due to Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, a 1980 Supreme Court case that found that discriminately preventing public campaigning or proselytizing at private shopping centers violates free speech. You’ll also find them set up witnessing at the DMV.  “That’s pretty lame. JWs, and not […]
  • Pennsylvania & Norway news updates
    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 on in Norway with government funding versus the Watchtower’s practice of shunning children, and women ‘apostates’ deserving of support and recognition making […]
  • Norway update from OSCE delegate post-2022 conference
    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, Poland. “And FYI, the Watchtower has been a member of the OSCE for decades…” As per the video, a blow dealt to […]
  • Tokyo woman and rapper confront the need for Jehovah’s Witness children to be able to communicate religious harm, asks for government cooperation
    “…children find themselves in dire situations where it is virtually impossible to speak their minds…” iidabii, Japanese rapper uses words to cure ills of abusive religious upbringing, as former Jehovah’s Witness—Mainichi Lloyd Barry, now deceased, served as a missionary in Japan for over 25 years—he and his wife arrived at Yokohama, to begin serving “where the need was great” on Halloween, October 31, 1949. Barry […]
  • Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announces charges against four Jehovah’s Witnesses for sexual abuse of minors
    All of the defendants’ victims were minors, as well as members of Jehovah’s Witness congregations.  “These cases are disturbing, the allegations hard to imagine, and all share one common tie – the 19 victims and the four men who are being charged with sexually violating them are all members of Jehovah’s Witnesses,” AG Shapiro said. “These children deserved to be protected and grow up […]
  • Six Screens covers OSCE
    Hear Barbara Anderson tell the story about how Yergali Abishev ended up an activist for human rights.

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  • 5 more Jehovah’s Witnesses charged with sexually abusing children are arrested in Pennsylvania
    Acting Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced sexual abuse charges against five members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, while four other Jehovah’s Witnesses were charged for similar acts in October 2022 by former Attorney General now-Governor Josh Shapiro. Read the press release for more information. Map of Jehovah’s Witnesses accused of child sex abuse in Pennsylvania provided by thesilenceofthelambsand.me/map.
  • Shocking Murder-Suicide at Kingdom Hall in Colorado
    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 Department Hazardous Material Unit is currently investigating suspicious devices found at the scene,” and that police are interviewing witnesses as part of […]
  • Eight victims listed in sexual assault on a child case against Jehovah’s Witness elder
    Colorado’s Teller County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of Shawn Lance Swisher on Tuesday, a 60-year-old Jehovah’s Witness man, an elder, who is suspected of sexually assaulting a child in the Woodland Park area. “An arrest affidavit for a Florissant man arrested on the charge of sexual assault on a child sheds light on the case, with allegations stretching back for decades and claims […]
  • Pennsylvania & Norway news updates
    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 on in Norway with government funding versus the Watchtower’s practice of shunning children, and women ‘apostates’ deserving of support and recognition making […]
  • Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announces charges against four Jehovah’s Witnesses for sexual abuse of minors
    All of the defendants’ victims were minors, as well as members of Jehovah’s Witness congregations.  “These cases are disturbing, the allegations hard to imagine, and all share one common tie – the 19 victims and the four men who are being charged with sexually violating them are all members of Jehovah’s Witnesses,” AG Shapiro said. “These children deserved to be protected and grow up […]
  • Video to watch the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference, in English or Russian
  • OSCE 2022 Update: Governing Body Listens & Leaves
    “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 not know me. But after my speech, he immediately understood who I was and left.” We started a Go Fund Me page […]
  • 💜 A Message of love and support to our brave and courageous 🇺🇦 Ukrainian friends & family, from Barbara Anderson
    Worldwide activist and Watchtower archivist Barbara Anderson shares a message from the exJW community supporting our friends and family in Ukraine.
  • Local Jehovah’s Witness Child Molester Goes on to Attend Insurrection
    Reporting by Amanda Gailey, SeeingRedNebraska.com Court documents show that elders at Crowl’s church–The Belmont Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Lincoln–had “investigated” the abuse claim in 2013, just to see if Crowl was in need of spiritual assistance. According to the documents, one of the church elders, James Newman, claimed that Crowl had denied touching the little girl’s breasts but admitted to massaging her and […]
  • 2002 Dateline Exposé
    Watch as Barbara begins the crusade against the Watchtower as Dateline reporters clearly demonstrate how Jehovah’s Witness child molesters and pedophiles continue to attend meetings and participate in the door-to-door preaching work in your community. They are not only allowed—but even encouraged to do this—in spite of their reported bad behavior. And all of this is kept secret in your local community. 2022: This […]
  • Michael’s Story
    This video is hard to watch as Michael tells his small town story. Midway through this video we learn from Jeff, who has never been a Jehovah’s Witness, that he had become friends with Michael since this interview—and he blames the Watchtower for his death. Michael took his life, on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Michael had worked for Tullahoma City Schools for 22 years, […]
  • Barbara Anderson’s Dateline Diary
    Barbara is truly a heroic individual to those of us who feel strongly about the abuses of Watchtower and seeing them brought to the light. Twenty years ago today, Barbara appeared on Dateline and launched the exposé uncovering the hidden documents the Watchtower was hiding regarding child sexual abuse. In doing so, Barbara sacrificed much – including the relationship with her only son. Below, […]