http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 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 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 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 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 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