http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:50:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23957/russian-supreme-court-bans-regional-jehovahs-witnesses-branch http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23957/russian-supreme-court-bans-regional-jehovahs-witnesses-branch#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:29:49 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23957 The Supreme Court rejected an appeal against a previous court ruling of the Rostov regional court issued on September 11, 2009, which declares the Jehovah's Witnesses' branch in the southern Russian city of Taganrog an extremist organization and bans its activities.

A plot of land, an office building and other property belonging to the group were also seized.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23957/russian-supreme-court-bans-regional-jehovahs-witnesses-branch/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23758/leaving-a-cult http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23758/leaving-a-cult#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:17:27 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23758 Raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, Brenda Lee now educates people about cult involvement in communities across the world.

In free seminars, she addresses topics such as how to identify toxic organizations, the eight points of mind control and who is most at risk of joining a destructive group. [video]]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23758/leaving-a-cult/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23698/jehovahs-witnesses-fake-us-bonds http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23698/jehovahs-witnesses-fake-us-bonds#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:29:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23698 U.S. Treasury bonds with a face value of $116 billion seized in Italy in August are fake and were destined for U.S. investors, according to the prosecutor running the probe.

A woman from the Philippines, who was to receive the bonds taken in August, and the sender, her brother, who later traveled to Italy, were arrested by local police, the prosecutor said.

Had the notes been genuine, the pair would have been the U.S. government’s sixth-biggest creditor, behind Russia, which is owed $118 billion.

The Philippine nationals claimed to be Jehovah’s Witnesses and wanted to sell the bonds to finance their religious missions, the prosecutor said. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23698/jehovahs-witnesses-fake-us-bonds/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23544/jehovah-s-witness-refuses-medical-treatment http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23544/jehovah-s-witness-refuses-medical-treatment#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:18:35 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23544 A dying Jehovah's Witness has been granted the right to refuse life-saving medical treatment on the grounds of his religious beliefs.

Mr A's guardians produced two Jehovah's Witness "worksheets'' indicating his attitude to various forms of medical treatment. Justice Robert McDougall found Mr A's directives should be followed "even if the likely consequence of giving effect to Mr A's wishes ... is that he will die".]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23544/jehovah-s-witness-refuses-medical-treatment/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23483/jehovahs-witnesses-cult-quackery http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23483/jehovahs-witnesses-cult-quackery#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 14:51:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23483 The father of a girl who died after refusing blood transfusions, on the basis of un-biblical teachings by the Jehovah's Witnesses -- continues to battle the cult in court.

Some legal scholars observing the case see what could be worrying setbacks for this legally aggressive sect accustomed to mobilizing the courts to block members from receiving life-saving transfusions]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23483/jehovahs-witnesses-cult-quackery/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23420/jehovah-witnesses-blood-transfusion-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23420/jehovah-witnesses-blood-transfusion-2#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:42:27 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23420 Legal representatives for a Jehovah’s Witness have abandoned an appeal into what is believed to be the first instance in Ireland where a court ordered a blood transfusion to be given to an adult against her will.

Doctors at Coombe Hospital in Dublin had obtained a court order allowing them to give a blood transfusion to a women who lost eighty percent of her blood when she haemorrhaged after giving birth. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23420/jehovah-witnesses-blood-transfusion-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23299/jehovahs-witnesses-blood-transfusion-5 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23299/jehovahs-witnesses-blood-transfusion-5#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:30:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23299 A Jehovah's Witness being treated at St. Vincent's Medical Center was administered a blood transfusion despite his explicit request not to be given that procedure, which violates his religious beliefs.

In the lawsuit Geyer filed in Superior Court, he contends he has suffered extreme emotional and physical trauma as a result of the transfusion.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23299/jehovahs-witnesses-blood-transfusion-5/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23285/jehovahs-witnesses-blood-transfusion-4 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23285/jehovahs-witnesses-blood-transfusion-4#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:08:21 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23285 A 12-year-old Jehovah's Witness girl has received a life-saving blood transfusion that she did not want after a Johannesburg High Court order gave doctors the go-ahead.

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that it's against God's will to take other people's blood, or one's own blood that has been stored, into one's body.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23285/jehovahs-witnesses-blood-transfusion-4/feed 0 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 0 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 0