Two young Jehovah’s Witnesses have joined two other Jehovah’s Witnesses already incarcerated in the labour camp in Seydi after being sentenced in July for refusing compulsory military service on grounds of religious conscience, Jehovah’s Witnesses told Forum 18 News Service. Shadurdi Ushotov, who is 21, received the maximum two-year term, while 19-year-old Akmurat Egendurdiev received [...]

Jehovah’s Witnesses detained in Tajikistan  Dushanbe, September 25, Interfax – Police in Khujand, northern Tajikistan, detained 17 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. Police also [...]

Producing a safe blood substitute to replace transfusions is fraught with problems, according to a report titled Blood Substitutes: Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers, written by Dr. Jerrold H. Levy of the Emory University School of Medicine and Emory Healthcare and released by the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) [...]

Pavel Peichev, the head of Uzbekistan’s Baptist Union, and two colleagues face up to three years in prison each when they go on trial under criminal charges of tax evasion and teaching children Christianity against their and their parents’ will at a Baptist-run summer camp. The three have rejected the accusations against them, according to [...]

“It’s now clear transfusing patients does not necessarily result in better outcomes,” said Dr. Brad Collins of Charleston Pathology, a proponent of stricter blood management. “A transfusion is like a transplant. You’re introducing a foreign substance from another human being into a person’s body. The natural reaction is for the body to reject it.” Collins, [...]

Objections over worship hall plan in setback for Jehovah’s Witnesses 8:55am Thursday 10th September 2009   RESIDENTS have urged Jehovah’s Witnesses to withdraw plans to build a place of worship, claiming the scheme is upsetting the community. The religious group wants to build a Kingdom Hall next to Blackrod Community Centre in Greenbarn Way but [...]

DOCTORS and paramedics must withhold life-saving medical care if a patient has previously made a ”living will” that clearly states they do not want a specific treatment, such as kidney dialysis or a blood transfusion. A landmark NSW Supreme Court decision has upheld the right to refuse medical treatment, even if the decision was made [...]

Two Articles of the Code of Administrative Offences which punish unregistered religious activity, missionary activity without state approval and activity not specifically mentioned in a community’s officially-approved statute remain almost unchanged in the Justice Ministry’s published draft text of a new Code, Forum 18 News Service notes. “Offences” under these Articles are punishable by fines [...]

JEHOVAH’S Witnesses from all circuits in Swaziland will have their circuit assembly in September and October this year. InSeptember, the assembly will be held at Ngwane high school hall, Shiselweni and Bosco Skill centre hall, Manzini on the weekends of 5th to 6th and 19th to 20th respectively. In October, the circuit assembly will be [...]

City officials say that the largest convention in the history of Sacramento is coming to town, bringing millions in revenue with it. Downtown hotels, restaurants and other businesses are hoping that the new deal struck with the Jehovah’s Witnesses will bring in more than 200,000 more visitors to conventions held every weekend between Memorial Day [...]