This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global news site that translates stories of  note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in the leading Italian daily La Stampa. (GENOA) — The latest sex-abuse case to rock the Catholic Church is unfolding in the archdiocese of an influential Italian [...]

Eritrea’s persecution of believers turns gold into blood money By Rev. Richard D. Land and Imam Talal Y. Eid In the Horn of Africa, a minerals boom has begun and the tyrannical leadership of Eritrea, which regularly imprisons and tortures people on account of their religious faith, stands to reap a windfall of profits. Will [...]

The amnesty sought by President Berdymukhammedov for reasons of “mercy and humanity,” has not been extended to Jehovah’s Witnesses detained for refusing military service. Protestant minister Nurliev, convicted on false evidence, also kept in prison. Ashgabat (AsiaNews/F18) – The amnesty decreed by Turkmenistan on February 18 last continues to be applied to 9 prisoners of [...]

Man, 92, Found Dead In Window DELAND, Fla. — A passing Jehovah’s Witness spotted a man dead in a window Tuesday and called authorities, according to deputies. The 92-year-old man died after becoming trapped in a window after being locked out of his Central Florida home. Volusia County sheriff’s deputies said the passer-by found Johnnie [...]

For Immediate Release March 16, 2011 NEW YORK—Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide are expressing deep concern for the victims of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck the northeastern region of mainland Japan. It is regarded as the worst earthquake in Japan’s history and the fourth largest in the world since 1900, triggering a tsunami that devastated cities [...]

What’s that building project south of Blanco? The local congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses, alongside volunteers from all over South Central Texas, are working hard on the new Kingdom Hall. The project is located at the entrance to Landon’s Crossing, on Logan’s Way, south of Blanco on U.S. 281. The project broke ground on Monday, January [...]

By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service None of the nine known religious prisoners of conscience in Turkmenistan was freed in the February amnesty decreed “on the principles of mercy, justice and humanism”. Nor were three Jehovah’s Witnesses serving suspended sentences. Sentenced in December 2010 to an 18-month prison term for refusing compulsory military service [...]

For Immediate Release March 09, 2011 ULAN-UDE, Russia—Daisuke Nomura, a student studying the Russian language at the Buryatia State University, will be deported back to Japan. According to local authorities, a foreign student in Russia is not permitted to profess the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Nomura, a 28-year-old from the city of Osaka, Japan, had [...]

By Rosemary Griffin, Forum 18 News Service Russian Jehovah’s Witnesses and Armenian Catholics continue to struggle to gain registration – and so legal status – from the authorities of the capital Moscow, Forum 18 News Service has learned. A court has decided not to change a decision to close the Jehovah’s Witnesses Moscow branch – [...]

Brit of all right: Dan Ritchie, Phelan Hill and Mohamed Sbihi By MIKE DICKSON As rioters laid siege to The Treasury in the pre-Christmas protests against tuition fees one of Great Britain’s aspiring gold medallists for 2012 had the perfect view. Phelan Hill, cox of the GB rowing eight, was actually inside the building and [...]