Everett Clinic, Providence – "Blood Conservation Program" http://heraldnet.com/article/20120222/NEWS01/702229842/-1/news01 An innovative blood conservation program that uses several ways to reduce blood loss during surgery. Its goal is to avoid unnecessary transfusions. The program has gained international attention for shortening hospital stays for open heart patients and avoiding unnecessary transfusions. Medical costs also are reduced because less [...]

Death Toll in Ecuador Bus Crash Climbs to 29 QUITO – The death toll from a weekend bus crash in the northern Ecuadorian province of Imbabura rose to 29, a fire rescue service official from the Andean city of Ibarra told Efe. In the accident that happened when a bus hit a wall, skidded off [...]

TURKMENISTAN: Pastor freed, other religious prisoners of conscience remain jailed By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service Nearly 18 months after his August 2010 arrest in Turkmenistan, Protestant pastor Ilmurad Nurliev was among a group of about 230 prisoners freed under amnesty on 18 February from a labour camp. “He and the other prisoners were [...]

Conscientious objector vs. his military employer A company whose business is maintaining and repairing U.S. Navy equipment has agreed to settle with an employee who said his religious convictions prevented him from working on “weapons of war.” Harry Davis—a Jehovah’s Witness who worked at a Dresser Rand facility near Corning—sued the defense contractor after he [...]

Armenia: Jehovah’s Witnesses Want Time to Study Retraction Submitted by H1 TV At today’s court case, in which the Jehovah’s Witnesses is suing the H1 TV station for slander, a prosecution lawyer motioned for a postponement so that her client could review the text of a retraction submitted by the defendant. Both sides say they [...]

Jehovah witnesses hurl Bibles at pit bulls attacking grandma City View, TX (KFDX) – A 77-year-old grandmother is recovering after being attacked by two pit bulls in a neighborhood outside of Austin, Texas. Luckily, a few good Samaritans came to her rescue. The blood stains spattered on the road speak of the vicious attack. “It [...]

Russian authorities target official Web site of Jehovah’s Witnesses For Immediate Release February 16, 2012 CHITA, Russia—A report posted on the Web site of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation informed its readers that the District Court in the city of Chita, located in the Zabaykalsky Territory, ruled to block access in the region [...]

Russian authorities demand that children’s book about Jesus be banned For Immediate Release February 16, 2012 TVER, Russia— In a move that defies both Russian law and common sense, a district prosecutor in the city of Tver is attempting to have the book Learn From the Great Teacher, published by Jehovah’s Witnesses, added to the [...]

Uzbek officials refuse to release prisoners of conscience—indefinite prison time awaits For Immediate Release February 15, 2012 TASHKENT, Uzbekistan—Sergey Ivanov, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, was looking forward to seeing his friends and family again. He had spent the last three and a half years in an Uzbek labor colony and was anticipating his release in [...]

Nagorno-Karabakh convicts and imprisons conscientious objector For Immediate Release February 15, 2012 ASKERAN, Nagorno-Karabakh—On December 30, 2011, 18-year-old Karen Harutyunyan, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, was convicted by Judge Beglaryan of the Court of First Instance of the city of Askeran for refusing military service. He was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment. During the trial, Harutyunyan [...]