Category: Backgrounds
Comfort for abuse victims?
The last article in the series about love and justice is about offering comfort to victims of sexual abuse. It deals with three questions: (1) How is it that [...]
Love and justice? A review of study article 19 in the May 2019 Watchtower
In the study article Love and Right in Ancient Israel in the Watchtower of February 2019 (study edition) it was indicated that this was a first article in a series of four, [...]
The blind spot of 'true religion' thinking
"You will recognize them by their fruits," Jesus said according to Matthew. "You can not pick grapes from a thorn bush or figs from a thistle? So every good tree bears [...]
Misuse Montana: it's not about money
On Wednesday 26 September, a lawsuit in Thompson Falls, Montana (USA), determined that the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses should pay 35 million dollars to a victim of sexual abuse. [...]
Accessibility of information depends on who you are at Jehovah's Witnesses
Anyone who starts on sexual abuse in the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses is told that they have been providing information for years to protect children. Representatives of the faith community will not [...]
Do Jehovah's Witnesses understand the nature of child sexual abuse?
Jehovah's Witnesses have been pretending for many years to provide information and prevention where sexual abuse is concerned. Yet the many reports concerning sexual abuse within this religious [...]
Commentary on 'The Biblical standpoint of Jehovah's Witnesses on the protection of children'
To protect children with Jehovah's Witnesses, there has been a new policy document in the Netherlands since March 2018, called: The Biblical View of Jehovah's Witnesses on the Protection of Children. Entirely [...]
Organization of Jehovah's Witnesses
Origin The organization of Jehovah's Witnesses was founded in Pennsylvania by a small group of Bible students under the direction of Charles Taze Russell towards the end of the 19 century. Russell was [...]
Sexual abuse with Jehovah's Witnesses
In the summer of 2017, Trouw published a series of articles about sexual abuse among Jehovah's Witnesses in the Netherlands. Marinde van der Breggen and Rianne Oosterom, journalists from [...]