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    Jehovah's Witness Arrested In Baku For Refusing Military Duty

    Mushfiq Mammadov, a conscientious objector to military service in Azerbaijan, has been detained for refusing to perform compulsory military service. Mammadov, who is a member of the Christian group Jehovah’s Witnesses, is reportedly being held in the Kurdakhani isolation center and has not been given a lawyer. Mammadov was once detained in 2006 and given [...]

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    Parents urged to be truthful to promote unity in the family

    Accra, Aug 24, GNA – A Watchtower article which was studied in more than 236 countries worldwide this weekend at the Kingdom Halls of Jehovah’s Witnesses, enjoined parents to be truthful and to adopt an open method of communication to forge close bonds with family members. “Many problems and misunderstanding can be reduced or eliminated [...]

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    Watchtower Society files a Headquarters site Plan

    Town of Warwick, New York State 2009 New Planning Board Applications NEW PLANNING BOARD APPLICATIONS AS OF 7-29-09 PROJECT NAME: WATCHTOWER / WORLD HEADQUARTERS SITE PLAN Owners: WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF NY, INC.   Engineer/Surveyor: TURNER MILLER GROUP Acreage: 257 Acres DESCRIPTION: Application for Site Plan Approval and Special Use Permit for the [...]

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    3,000-year-old biblical story of David and Goliath

    Archaeologists are putting some flesh on the bones of the David and Goliath myth by shifting through layers of earth at the site in the Holy Land. hile little physical evidence has ever been found to support the 3,000-year-old biblical story of David and Goliath, a team from Israel and Australia has been excavating 50 [...]

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    Intraoperative hemodilutional autotransfusion using a closed circuit for patients of Jehovah's witness

    It’s about a scientific article published in 2000. Auteur(s) / Author(s) HIRAKI T. (1) ; HAMADA N. (1) ; KANO T. (1) ; ISAMOTO Y. (2) Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s) (1) Department of Anesthesiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume 830-0011, JAPON (2) Clinical Engineering Center, Kurume University School of Medicine, [...]

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    Experts dig up dirt on David and Goliath

    Archaeologists are putting some flesh on the bones of the David and Goliath myth by shifting through layers of earth at the site in the Holy Land. While little physical evidence has ever been found to support the 3,000-year-old biblical story of David and Goliath, a team from Israel and Australia has been excavating 50 [...]

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    KYRGYZSTAN: Property obstacles used to stop registrations

    Some religious communities in Kyrgyzstan are facing problems in registering as they cannot get a certificate from the State Agency for Architecture and Buildings, Forum 18 News Service has been told. In some cases religious communities are told that, on the instructions of the State Agency for Religious Affairs, their building must be 1,000 metres [...]

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    KYRGYZSTAN: What will new "Coordinating Council on the Struggle Against Religious Extremism" do?

    Kyrgyzstan has established a state Coordinating Council on the Struggle against Religious Extremism, Forum 18 News Service notes. The execution of Council decisions will be obligatory for the different parts of the government, but officials are unclear when asked by Forum 18 what they mean by religious extremism and what the Council will do. It [...]

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    KYRGYZSTAN: "Don't meet for worship"

    Unregistered communities of Protestant Christians, Hare Krishna devotees and Ahmadiya Muslims in many parts of Kyrgyzstan have been ordered by the authorities to stop meeting for worship, Forum 18 News Service has found. In some cases, communities have been told that state registration in the capital Bishkek does not allow religious activity elsewhere. One Protestant [...]

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    KYRGYZSTAN: "Don't meet for worship"

    Unregistered communities of Protestant Christians, Hare Krishna devotees and Ahmadiya Muslims in many parts of Kyrgyzstan have been ordered by the authorities to stop meeting for worship, Forum 18 News Service has found. In some cases, communities have been told that state registration in the capital Bishkek does not allow religious activity elsewhere. One Protestant [...]

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