http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 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/23396/religion-news-roundup-6 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23396/religion-news-roundup-6#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:11:26 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23396 Today's Religion News Roundup includes stories about elves, a ship operated by a religious sect, mosques facing the wrong direction, and mosques possibly spied upon by the FBI.

Also: "I'm Perfect, You're Doomed." Yes, it's about Jehovah's Witnesses.

Further, the definitive book on the Columbine High School massacre. Germany's main Neo-Nazi party faces collapse, and according to the Vatican the Knights Templar hid the Shroud of Turin.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23396/religion-news-roundup-6/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23386/religion-news-roundup-5 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23386/religion-news-roundup-5#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:21:14 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23386 Today's Religion News Roundup: • Why the word should worry about Iran • A 666 license plate exchange • What could be worse than the Taliban? • Law aimed at hate group used to silence veteran instead

Also: • Germany bans Neo-Nazi youth organization, and • Jews in Brooklyn take the Amish on a walking tour...]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23386/religion-news-roundup-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 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 0 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 0