http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 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 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/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 0 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 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21744/jehovah-witnesses-blood-transfusion http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21744/jehovah-witnesses-blood-transfusion#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:27:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21744 The leaders of the Watchtower Society -- the legal organization behind the Jehovah's Witnesses -- claim to speak for God.

In reality, they keep changing their minds on what he allegedly told them -- regarding blood, for instance.

In the process, they show themselves to be quacks whose nonsense has resulted in numerous needless deaths.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21744/jehovah-witnesses-blood-transfusion/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21677/jehovahs-witnesses-dad-loses-his-daughter-his-family-and-now-his-lawsuit-to-the-cult http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21677/jehovahs-witnesses-dad-loses-his-daughter-his-family-and-now-his-lawsuit-to-the-cult#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:45:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21677 The Watchtower Society -- the organization behind the Jehovah's Witnesses -- wrongly claims that the Bible forbids blood transfusion. That makes it a killer cult whose teachings have resulted in many needless deaths, including that of Bethany Hughes.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21677/jehovahs-witnesses-dad-loses-his-daughter-his-family-and-now-his-lawsuit-to-the-cult/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21635/court-rules-against-parents-of-sextuplets-in-fight-over-transfusions http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21635/court-rules-against-parents-of-sextuplets-in-fight-over-transfusions#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:55:53 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21635 The parents decided to take the case to court, arguing that their rights were breached on a number of grounds, including that officials proceeded on the "stereotypical and paternalistic presumption that the treating doctor is always right and Jehovah's Witness parents always wrong," noted Brenner.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21635/court-rules-against-parents-of-sextuplets-in-fight-over-transfusions/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21603/jehovahs-witnesses-22 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21603/jehovahs-witnesses-22#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:04:04 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21603 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21603/jehovahs-witnesses-22/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21589/jehovahs-witness-blood-transfusion-4 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21589/jehovahs-witness-blood-transfusion-4#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:06:43 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21589 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21589/jehovahs-witness-blood-transfusion-4/feed 0