http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:35:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22988/jehovahs-witnesses-blood-transfusion-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22988/jehovahs-witnesses-blood-transfusion-3#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:47:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22988 A High Court judge has directed that a Dublin, Ireland hospital can, provided it is absolutely necessary, give a possible life-saving blood transfusion to a four-year-old girl despite the religious objections of her Jehovah's Witness parents.

The hospital made an emergency application to Ms Justice Mary Laffoy on Tuesday seeking an order allowing it to administer a transfusion after the parents refused to give consent.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22988/jehovahs-witnesses-blood-transfusion-3/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22802/jehovahs-witnesses-23 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22802/jehovahs-witnesses-23#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:55:47 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22802 Two women who were sexually abused in their adolescence by a trusted older relative say elders of the small-town Jehovah's Witness church in which they were raised did not report the situation to police after he admitted touching them inappropriately during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Instead, the man received a lecture from the elders, and many in the community rallied around him because he regularly attended church meetings - while the girls were "treated like troublemakers" and encouraged to let the whole thing go, one of the victims wrote.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22802/jehovahs-witnesses-23/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22714/right-refuse-medical-care-ireland http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22714/right-refuse-medical-care-ireland#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:57:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22714 People should be able to refuse in advance medical treatment in the event of their becoming incapacitated by serious accident or illness, according to the Law Reform Commission in Ireland.

The commission also provisionally recommends that refusal of treatment on religious grounds in advance care directives be permitted. This issue has been explored by the courts recently in relation to Jehovah's Witnesses, who, on religious grounds, do not accept blood transfusions.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22714/right-refuse-medical-care-ireland/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22552/eunice-spry-jehovahs-witness http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22552/eunice-spry-jehovahs-witness#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:56:50 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22552 The devout Jehovah's Witness was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court in March last year after a four-week trial when it was heard that she had forced sticks down the children's throats and made them eat their own vomit and rat excrement.

Mr Justice Burnett, detailing what he called a "catalogue of abuse", said as punishment for misbehaving, Spry would beat the children on the soles of their feet and force them to drink washing-up liquid and bleach.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22552/eunice-spry-jehovahs-witness/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22526/jehovahs-witnesses-murder-spree http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22526/jehovahs-witnesses-murder-spree#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:39:31 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22526 Two twisted Jehovah's Witnesses have been arrested as suspected serial killers, accused of murdering 13 people during a nine-month killing spree in Russia.

Claiming to be on a mission from God, Vladimir Gurianov, 44, and Elvira Egorycheva 46, hacked, shot and bludgeoned their victims in a case that left even hardened Russian detectives shocked.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22526/jehovahs-witnesses-murder-spree/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22492/jehovah-witness-amanda-hustler http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22492/jehovah-witness-amanda-hustler#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:40:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22492 A Jehovah's Witness who survived a shooting in which her husband died is believed to have refused a blood transfusion during surgery to save her life.

Amanda Hustler is being treated at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth for two gunshot wounds to her back]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22492/jehovah-witness-amanda-hustler/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22479/jehovahs-witness-shooting http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22479/jehovahs-witness-shooting#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:04:13 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22479 A 23-year-old man is under police guard in hospital after his girlfriend’s father was shot dead and her mother severely wounded at their home in a Cornish hamlet.

It is believed the parents, Jehovah's Witnesses, had forced their daughter to end the relationship due to their strict religious views.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22479/jehovahs-witness-shooting/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22471/jehovahs-witness-shot-dead http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22471/jehovahs-witness-shot-dead#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:18:35 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22471 A businessman has been murdered and his wife was in a critical condition in hospital last night following a double shooting at their £500,000 luxury home in Cornwall.

Jehovah's Witness Adam Hustler and his wife Amanda were allegedly gunned down by their daughter's jilted lover who is believed to have been forced to end the relationship because of their strict religious views.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22471/jehovahs-witness-shot-dead/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21782/jehovahs-witnesses-russia http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21782/jehovahs-witnesses-russia#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:17:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21782 Prosecutors Russian city of Murmansk say that a planned series of Jehovah's Witnesses services in a stadium cannot go ahead, as they contravene a law on the use of sports facilities.

Meanwhile the Public Prosecutor of the small asbestos-mining town of Asbest in Sverdlovsk Region is pressing for a ban on Jehovah's Witness literature, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. If Asbest Town Court – or any other Russian court – finds Jehovah's Witness publications extremist, their addition to the Federal List of Extremist Materials would extend a ban on their distribution to the whole of Russia.

Jehovah's Witnesses continuing to hand out the texts would risk a four-year prison term under Article 282 of the Criminal Code.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21782/jehovahs-witnesses-russia/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21772/antonie-dixon-samurai-sword http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21772/antonie-dixon-samurai-sword#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:52:35 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21772 Antonie Dixon told so many stories since the evening he attacked two women and shot a man that he is struggling to keep track of all his lies, the Crown told the High Court at Auckland today.

Crown prosecutor Simon Moore today challenged evidence Dixon gave yesterday, including that God had commanded him to decapitate the women, that he saw snipers at the back of an ambulance and he saw a man with horns.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21772/antonie-dixon-samurai-sword/feed