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Jehovah's Witnesses, Watchtower


Bergman, Jerry, Ph.D.: "Lying in Court and Religion: An Analysis of the Theocratic Warfare Doctrine of the Jehovah's Witnesses" - abstract
Beyond Jehovah's Witnesses
Bowen, William (Silent Lambs) - profile/link
Bowen, William: "Jehovah's Witnesses Lose Court Battle to Suppress Freedom of Speech"
Captives of a Concept: Understanding the Illusionary Concept that Holds Jehovah's Witnesses Captive - book review by Marcia Rudin
Clark, Dan - profile
Comments from the Friends
Cult Awareness and Information Centre - link
Cult Information Network
DannyHaszard
HYPERGLOSSARY of American English Hacker Theocratese
Out of the Cocoon: A Young Woman’s Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult - book review by Mary Kochan
Out of the Cults and into the Church - book review by Patrick Knapp
Personal Freedom Outreach
Shaun's Research on the Jehovah's Witnesses
Silentlambs - link
Spiritwatch Ministries
Watchers of the Watchtower World
Watchman Fellowship
Watchtower Observer - link
Watchtower Victims Memorial - link
Weishaupt, Kaynor & Stensland, Michael: "Wifely Subjection: Mental Health Issues in Jehovah's Witness Women" - abstract

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Articles/Book reviews

A support group for the disowned
 

Acceptance is equated with act of adultery
 

AT&T told to pay 2 Jehovah's Witnesses
 

Austria recognizes Jehovah's Witnesses
  http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-2/1241708427316850.xml&storylist=international

B.C. seized three ailing sextuplets
 

Babies' blood transfusions not needed, doctors testify
 

Best of Times, Worst of Times: Lisa Magdalena, former Jehovah’s Witness
 

Blood ban tests faith
 

Blood transfusions
 

Blood, money and injustice
  http://www.calgaryherald.com/Health/Blood+money+injustice/1576415/story.html

Board denies parole for swindler
 

Brainwash spares cult reject jail
 

Calgary dad's bid to sue church blocked
 

Care conflict over BC sextuplets sparks bloody row
 

Child abuse with the Jehovah’s Witnesses
 

Children's right to life should trump parents' rights, B.C. lawyer tells court
 

Conflict Over Faith Healing: Courts Refuse, Allow State Involvement
 

Court okays lawsuit against lawyers for alleged ‘deceit’
 

Court throws out Jehovah's Witness lawsuit
 

Courts to sort Jehovah's Witness blood battle when kids involved
 

Critically ill Jehovah's Witness wife refuses blood transfusion after husband is gunned down 'by daughter's jilted boyfriend'
 

Custody to Non-Witness Spouse
 

Dad fights Jehovah's Witnesses over daughter's death
 

Dad given OK to sue over death
 

Dead teen's dad sues sect
 

Death sparks debate on Jehovah's Witness transfusion ban
  http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1790709

Debate goes on a year after birth of sextuplets
 

Dentist in the chair
  http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25281346-5013945,00.html

Dilemma for Jehovah's witness sextuplets
 

Doctor defends 'bloodless surgery' for babies
 

Doctor says blood transfusion seemed to be safest option for sextuplets
 

Don't martyr these infants
 

Door-to-Door, Disturbingly
 

Dying Jehovah's Witness granted right to refuse dialysis treatment
  http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25891594-911,00.html

Elder gets two years probation for molesting 12-year-old girl
 

Faith Healing
 

Father cannot introduce new evidence in Bethany Hughes case, court rules
  http://www.calgaryherald.com/Life/Father+cannot+introduce+evidence+Bethany+Hughes+case+court+rules/1628891/story.html

Father of dead teen back in court and ready to fight
 

Father of Jehovah's Witness teen wants charges against lawyers in her death
 

Father recalls breaking with faith for daughter
 

Father takes protest to Legislature
 

Finding My Religion
 

First money, now faith clouds pop sex case
 

Former church elder guilty of sex offence
 

Former Jehovah's elder sentenced
 

France: Child Goes with Non-JW parent
 

Global Scan: Australia/USA - Jehovah's Witness Dies Refusing Blood
 

GLOBAL SCAN: Russia - Witnesses Must Not Go Door-to-Door
 

Growing up J.W.
  http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=974916

High Court rules premature baby must be given blood
 

History of sect's blood ban tangled
 

Hospital begins landmark case over transfusion
 

How I survived being starved, beaten and tortured by my Jehovah's Witness foster mother
 

I refused blood during Caesarean and nearly died
 

I was her guardian'
  http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1629631&p=1

IN THE COMMUNITY: Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses
 

In the Courts: Conversion Not Impediment to Custody
 

In the Courts: Court Backs Shunning of Rewed Witness
 

IN THE COURTS: Lying in Name of Religion Can't Be Challenged
 

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: France-Child Goes with Non-JW Parent
 

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Russia-Restrictions Loosened
 

INTERNATIONAL: France-Witnesses Launch PR Drive
 

INTERNATIONAL: Kenya-"God" and 400 Followers Living in Kenya
 

INTERNATIONAL: Russia-Witnesses Lose Court Case on Appeal
 

jehovah hubby: I blame doctors
 

Jehovah Witness sextuplet case delayed
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses Claim Moscow Police Broke Up Prayer Meeting, Detained 20
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses deserve choice as a legal right says lawyer
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses hope to debunk myths about their faith
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses likely to accept transfusions ‘confidentially’
  http://www.imn.ie/index.php/current-issue/news/1-news/1330-jehovahs-witnesses-likely-to-accept-transfusions-confidentially

Jehovah’s Witnesses Sexual Abuse Cases
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses Win Legitimacy in Moscow
 

Jehovah's Witness Minister In Custody In New York
 

Jehovah's Witness mother dies after refusing blood
 

Jehovah's Witness returning to Canada
 

Jehovah's Witness teen not expected to survive; blood transfusions halted
 

Jehovah's Witness Tells L.A. Audiences of Defying Nazis
 

Jehovah's Witnesses downplay sex abuse, women say
 

Jehovah's Witnesses elders refusing to testify in Murrieta molestation case
 

Jehovah's witnesses face increased risk of death during childbirth
  http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=09061083-jehovah-witnesses-face-increased-risk-death-during-childbirth

Jehovah's Witnesses Granted Legal Status
 

Jehovah's Witnesses grow by 'devious' methods, charge anti-missionaries
 

Jehovah's Witnesses loses comp case
 

Jehovah's Witnesses member gets 18 months for sexually assaulting girls
 

Jehovah's Witnesses' Practice of Shunning Upheld
 

Jehovah's Witnesses prepare for end
 

Jehovah's Witnesses Protest "Disfellowshipping"
 

Jehovah's Witnesses Settle Abuse Cases
 

Jehovah's Witnesses sue for Kingdom Hall
 

Jehovah's Witnesses Told To Break Confidentiality
 

Judge grants transfusion for baby
  http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20090527/LOCAL03/305279952/1002/LOCAL

Judge tosses out parts of Jehovah's Witness case
 

Kazakhstan passes restrictive religion measure
 

Kingdom Hall gets the word out the way Jesus did
  http://www.sunherald.com/160/story/1123203.html

Lawyers say transfusions given to babies were necessary, not risky
 

Lying in Court and Religion: An Analysis of the Theocratic Warfare Doctrine of the Jehovah's Witnesses
  http://www.cultsandsociety.com/csr_member/mem_articles/bergman_jerry_csr0102.htm

Man jailed for groping children
 

Manitoba transfusion case dismissed
 

Mayoral hopeful left Jehovah's Witnesses
 

Medical emergencies in children of orthodox Jehovah’s Witness families: Three recent legal cases, ethical issues and proposals for management
 

Missed chances of ending 20 years of cruelty
 

Mount Vernon leukemia patient, 14, dies after rejecting transfusions
 

Murrieta molester sentenced to prison
 

Napans' claims against Jehovah´s Witnesses church may go to trial
 

No jail for sex abuser in case that cast spotlight on Jehovah's Witnesses
 

On Cultish Aspects of Jehovah's Witnesses
 

Opinion Column: Jehovah’s Witnesses Lose Court Battle to Suppress Freedom of Speech
 

Parents’ Objections to Medical Aid Overruled
 

Playful approach lightens account of growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness
  http://www.projo.com/books/content/artsun-jehovah_04-07-09_54DPE8C_v14.273a554.html#

Police Target Jehovah's Witnesses
 

Property tax not discriminatory, B.C judge rules
 

Province denied parents fair hearing, lawyers say
 

Quebec judge orders blood transfusions for twins of Jehovah’s Witness parents
 

Religion Today: Jehovah's Witnesses
 

Saakashvili Weighs in on Jehovah’s Witness Baby Treatment Case
  http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=21073

Sadistic foster mother jailed for 14 years
 

Sadistic foster mother’s 19-year reign of terror
 

SEC Halts $16M Scam Aimed at Elderly Jehovah’s Witnesses
 

Secret place of banned Christian religious sect members discovered in Gandja
  http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=100238

Sect demands biblical proof
 

Sect Puts Critic in Hot Seat
 

Seized children were in no medical emergency, parents' lawyer tells court
 

Sextuplet parents lose appeal
 

Sextuplets are born into a religious debate
 

Sextuplets' parents win right to question doctors, social workers
 

Shunned Jehovah Witness Sues for Emotional Distress
 

Suit against sect members can proceed
 

Suit claims years of abuse by father
 

Superior Court judge makes landmark church official abuse ruling
 

Supreme Court to hear Winnipeg girl's transfusion fight
 

Supreme Court to rule on rights of "mature minors"
 

Teen loses fight to refuse blood transfusions
 

The fight for the sextuplets
 

The Future is in Our Past
 

The Land 'Lord"
 

The Miseducation of Jehovah’s Witnesses
 

Three Jehovah's Witness Elders Sued
 

Transfusion refusal was 'difficult situation'
 

Treatment without transfusions
 

Turn of Faith
 

Ukrainian security service report more Satanists and other cults
 

Under 15s must be given transfusions despite beliefs
 

Underground sect members fined in Uzbekistan
 

Undue Influence by Jehovah’s Witnesses?
 

Uzbek court bans Jehovah Witnesses
 

Watchtower Ousts Victims, Whistle-Blowers
 

When faith and medicine collide
 

When Science Meets the Soul
 

Whistleblower could lose her church, family
 

WHO IS AT YOUR DOOR?
 

Witness for the family
 

Witness to a 'cult'
 

Witness To Shame
 

Witnesses Fighting Critics, Loss of Membership
 

Witness's refusal of transfusion costs his life
 

Woman Who Beat Jehovah's Witness Gets Jail
 

Women allege abuse by Jehovah's Witness
 

Book Review: Captives of a Concept: Understanding the Illusionary Concept that Holds Jehovah’s Witnesses Captive
 

Book Review: Jehovah’s Witnesses: Canvassing Right Upheld
 

Book Review: Out of the Cocoon: A Young Woman’s Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Being Freed from Disabling Hooks
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: “Cell-Free” Transfusions May Be Acceptable
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: “Disfellowshipped” for Convictions
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Activities Banned in Moscow
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Agreement on Transfusions
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Authorities Force Transfusion
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Canadian Girl Gets Treatment without Transfusion Order
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Cause of Death at Issue
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Childhood Conditioning Extreme
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Court Refuses to Allow Teen to Determine Medical Treatment; Father Alleges “Brianwashing” by Church Group
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Death after Refusing Transfusion
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Death from Transfusion Refusal Alleged
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Enticing Children with Candy Alleged
  http://www.culticstudiesreview.org/csr_member/mem_news_grp/jehovahswitnesses_2002oct20.htm

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Experts Say “Sect” Danger Underestimated
  http://www.culticstudiesreview.org/csr_member/mem_news_grp/jehovahswitnesses_2002oct20c.htm

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Father Campaigns against “Cult”
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: French Court Rules Transfusions Illegal
  http://www.culticstudiesreview.org/csr_member/mem_news_grp/jehovahswitnesses_2002oct20a.htm

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Girl Allowed to Get “Blood Avoidance” Treatment
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Group Wins Defamation Appeal Cultic Studies Review
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Judge Says Transfusion Violated Rights
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Not Found Liable in Child Abuse Case
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Policy on Sexual Abuse
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Proselytizing Conviction Upheld
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Recognition in Germany
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Saved by Transfusion
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Sentencing Postponed in Infant Murder
 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Story of “Shunning”
  http://www.culticstudiesreview.org/csr_member/mem_news_grp/jehovahswitnesses_20021203.htm

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Sued for Influencing Transfusion Refusal
 

Jehovah's Witnesses: Argument against Transfusion
 

Jehovah's Witnesses: Girl Cannot Refuse Transfusions
 

Jehovah's Witnesses: Transfusion Order Has “Whiff of Religious Bigotry”
 

Canada: Barring JW Proselytizing
 

Ex-Witnesses Tackle Custody Issue
 

Forced medication: When does it violate rights?
 

Jehovah's Witnesses Policies of Control
 

Parent's Religious Teaching Rights
 

 

Links

Ex-Jehovah's Witness Forum and Recovery Site

http://exjehovahswitnessforum.yuku.com

Watchtower Observer forum

http://www.kent.steinhaug.no/forum/index.php?s=25540c37fa894ffdb50251c991d4e83a

Out of the Cocoon: A Young Woman's Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult

http://www.outofthecocoon.net/

JWRecovery Magazine

http://jwrecovery.org/

Jehovah's Witnesses - Links to information

 

 

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