Jehovah’s Witnesses

Fact Sheet

Name	Jehovah’s Witnesses
Alternate name(s)	- Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Leader(s)	- Governing Body of Jehovah\’s Witnesses (since 1986) - Don A. Adams (pres. Watch Tower Society)
Founder(s)	Charles T. Russell
Established	1879
Websites	- www.watchtower.org
Quick links	Critical links | Resources | Audio/Video | News

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Jehovah's Witnesses News

• Feb. 21, 2007: Website helps dispute Jehovah’s Witnesses child custody cases
• Feb. 16, 2007: Winnipeg Jehovah's Witness teen loses fight to refuse blood transfusions
• Feb. 15, 2007: The fight for the sextuplets
• Feb. 9, 2007: Court dismisses case: Couple kicked out after saying church covered up sexual abuse
• Feb. 7, 2007: Sextuplets' parents live life by the Bible: "We are not fanatics"
• Feb. 7, 2007: Babies returned to Jehovah's Witnesses
• Feb. 6, 2007: Second Canadian sextuplet dies
• Jan. 25, 2007: Jehovah's Witnesses & Clergy Abuse Developments in Denmark and California
• Jan. 22, 2007: Sextuplets are born into a religious debate
• Apr. 23, 2006: Ex-Jehovah Witness whistleblower calls it as he sees it

Critical Links

• exjws.net (community of survivors)
• Free Minds: Watchers of the Watchtower World
• Jehovah's Witnesses Recovery: Beyond Jehovah's Witnesses
• Comments from the Friends
• Watchtowe News (not affiliated with the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society)
• Tartarean Paradise: Religious Trauma in Childhood

Resources

• AnswerJW (helps you answer Jehovah's Witnesses. Works best selecting topics.)
• New light on blood (official website of Associated Jehovah's Witnesses for Reform on Blood)
• JW Files: Research on Jehovah's Witnesses
• JW Child Custody - Don’t Allow a Cult To Take Your Children

Child Abuse

• Suffer The Little Children (BBC, "Panorama", Jul 14 2002 -- transcript available)
• Secret database protects paedophiles (BBC)
• Silent Lambs
• Sexual Abuse/Child Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses
• (Sexual) Child Abuse
• Jehovah's Witnesses accused of building paedophile paradise (Sunday Herald, Jul. 14 2002 -- cached copy)

Health & Death

• Life or Death Decision (WTNH, Feb. 25, 2002 -- video available)

Audio/Video

• Aug. 1, 2006: Interview with Bill Bowen (silentlambs.org)
• Apr. 24, 2006: Jehovah's Witnesses Disfellowship Tactics
• Apr. 24, 2006: Jehovah's Witnesses exposed
• Feb. 25, 2002: Life or Death Decision