Oh, the irony!
*** w71 9/15 575 Persecuted for Trying to Serve God ***And here is another ironic one: where the Catholic Church is seen as close-minded if they treat JW literature the same way JWs treat "apostate" literature:
Sad to say, this did not stop their persecution, for now it went into a cold-war stage. They would just say Hello and Good-bye to me and nothing else. We were baptized in symbol of our dedication to Jehovah God in May of 1968. Months later we decided to get married. They said that they would have nothing to do with it and that they did not approve of it. They tried to tempt my fiancée with trips to Europe, but this, too, failed. They announced that they would not come to our wedding ceremony and that we were to expect no help from them.
*** yb88 100 Ireland ***They irony is truly amazing!
However, the antipathy toward Jehovah's people and the resistance to their work was still deep-seated. Later that same year in a local Limerick newspaper, the following appeal was made to Catholic readers:"We appeal most earnestly to any person who may be accosted by representatives of the Society [Jehovah's Witnesses] to have nothing to do with their propaganda and to refuse firmly to enter into any discussions with them. Any copies of their publications which readers may have acquired should be destroyed immediately. So strongly does the Church wish us to shun their evil doctrines that any Catholic who reads publications of the Society leaves himself open to excommunication. Ireland's heritage of Faith, retained through centuries of persecution, is not to be bartered for a mess of Brooklyn pottage."
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