Jehovah's Witnesses
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Thursday May 22, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, the organization behind Jehovah’s Witnesses, incorrectly claims the Bible prohibits blood transfusions. Should minor followers of the cult be allowed to refuse a blood transfusion?
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Tuesday May 20, 2008
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Jehovah’s Witnesses blindly follow the errors of the Watchtower organization — even though Bible scholars state it is wrong about blood transfusion and a host of other Bible issues.
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Tuesday May 6, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
It was only when Rachel Underhill was lying in a hospital bed, haemorrhaging, that she first realised the way of the Watchtower might not be for her.
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Saturday April 26, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
Jehovah’s Witnesses blindly believe the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society’s claims regarding the Bible’s teachings on blood and blood transfusions. They are willing to die — or let their family members die — for their false beliefs.
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The High Court has ruled that doctors at the Coombe Women’s Hospital in Dublin did not act unlawfully in giving a blood transfusion to one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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Friday April 25, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
Doctors said the “ideal management” of the pregnancy would have been for a foetal blood sample to be taken and the unborn children to receive a transfusion in the womb to treat any anaemia. However, that was not possible because of the parents’ beliefs and doctors say the babies will instead have to be delivered prematurely, raising “all the risks associated with pre-term delivery”.
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Thursday April 24, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
The delivery of the 32-week-old babies, whose Jehovah Witness parents objected to their getting blood products on religious grounds but have agreed to abide by the court order, is expected to be induced shortly in light of the suspected seriousness of their condition.
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Wednesday April 23, 2008
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A pregnant woman with severely anaemic twins has objected to the babies receiving a potentially life-saving blood transfusion when they are born on religious grounds, the High Court was told yesterday.
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Tuesday April 8, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
A killer cult strikes again: A mother who refused a blood transfusion because she was a Jehovah’s Witness died hours after giving birth as doctors repeatedly pleaded with her family to overrule her decision.
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Church elders in the trial of a Jehovah’s Witness suspected of molesting three girls will have to testify at his trial now that a U.S. District Court of Appeal Monday summarily denied a petition to overturn a local judge’s ruling compelling the testimony.
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Monday April 7, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
A three day inquest is due to start into the death of a Jehovah’s Witness mum who died after she refused a blood transfusion following the birth of twins.
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Wednesday March 26, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
Leaders of a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation must reveal what a Murrieta man suspected of molesting two girls told them, despite their claims the conversation were protected by clergy confidentiality, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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Wednesday March 12, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses • Richard Greist:
In May, 1978, Richard Greist, in a psychotic rage, stabbed his wife, cut the body of his unborn son from her body and mutilated it, then stabbed one of his two daughters in the eye and killed the family cat at their home in East Coventry.
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Monday March 10, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
Jehovah’s Witnesses Maria and Jose Azevedo had to choose: allow their baby to die a preventable death or save him while acting against their religion. The doctor who helped guide them shares their story.
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Sunday March 9, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
In the Charity Commission’s Public Benefit and the Advancement of Religion document it states that a charity’s benefit to society will be measured against its detriments. The 91-page report states: “One possible example of this type of detriment or harm is the refusal to allow medical treatment, or the taking of medicines, on religious grounds.”
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Thursday March 6, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
A legal battle is looming over the need to protect children, and people’s right to practice religion without government intrusion.
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Monday March 3, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
Jehovah’s Witnesses would rather have their babies die than have medical professional give them blood transfusions — simply because the Watchtower cult claims that is what God would want.
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Saturday March 1, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
The children were taken from their home last year and given blood transfusions, contrary to the beliefs of their Jehovah’s Witness parents. They’ve long since returned to their parents, but the mother and father want the B.C. Supreme Court to declare the seizure unconstitutional. [video]
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Jehovah's Witnesses:
Jehovah’s Witnesses aged under 15 should be given blood transfusions if their lives are at risk–even if they or their parents object on religious grounds, according to new guidelines officially announced by a group of academic societies Thursday.
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Wednesday February 13, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
The charitable arm of the Jehovah’s Witnesses should return a £100,000 legacy from a man it expelled for trying to convert call girls, one of the man’s relatives has said.
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Friday February 1, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
A Jehovah’s Witness allegedly threatened to injure and kill his Catholic wife after an all-day argument over religion.
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Thursday January 31, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
The society is the corporation used by the Jehovah’s Witnesses for their business operations.
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Monday January 28, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
They were not much bigger than an outstretched hand when they were taken from their parents and given blood transfusions against their parents’ will and religious beliefs. The surviving four B.C. sextuplets have returned home but the fight is not over for their parents and it’s not over for Canadian courts.
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Saturday January 26, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
In April, 2007, a foster mother who subjected three children in her care to a “horrifying catalogue of cruel and sadistic treatment” was jailed for 14 years. One of the children she tortured has written a book: Deliver Me From Evil.
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Thursday January 24, 2008
Jehovah's Witnesses:
But the parents, who are Jehovah’s Witness, refused to allow the transfusions on religious grounds and the babies were seized by provincial child welfare authorities.
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