ELDER BOOK surrender - FINLAND (also in Scandal/Coverups section)

by RagingBull 24 Replies latest jw friends

  • RagingBull
    RagingBull

    Jehovah's Witnesses to hand over top-secret manual

    On Friday Finland's Jehovah's Witnesses will give their religious rule book to the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Interior so that it can be inspected to ensure that it's in line with Finnish rule of law.

    Sisäministeri Päivi Räsänen ja oikeusministeri Anna-Maja Henriksson sekä Jehovan todistajien tiedottaja Veikko Leinonen. Jehovah's Witnesses will hand over their secret rule book to the Minister of Justice, Anna-Maja Henriksson, and the Minister of the Interior, Päivi Räsänen. Image: Heikki Saukkomaa / Lehtikuva

    Until now, only senior members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Committee have had access to the congregation's secret book of rules.

    The disciplinary activities of the Jehovah's Witnesses Committee have been criticised for violating human rights.

    According to Anna-Maja Henriksson, Finland's Minister of Justice, the purpose of the handover is to examine the book and determine whether its rules and regulations run counter to Finnish law.

    Henriksson and Interior Minister Päivi Räsänen met on Thursday with the leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Helsinki. The book will be handed over on Friday for inspection.

    According to representatives of the Jehovah's Witnesses, committee practices have been changed recently and the committee no longer addresses or interferes in the matters of its members that are considered to go against church guidelines.

    Sources
    Yle
  • RagingBull
    RagingBull

    I'm guessing she will not get the unadulterated version.

  • wannaexit
    wannaexit

    I am also of the opinion that watchtower will be passing on a tampared one. Could someone in Finland give a copy with all margin notes?

  • DesirousOfChange
    DesirousOfChange

    ...committee practices have been changed recently and the committee no longer addresses or interferes in the matters of its members that are considered to go against church guidelines.

    Odd that they haven't informed the R&F about that?

    Doc

  • zebagain
    zebagain

    well done. and as WE says above please Finland make sure she gets an untampered one. and "No longer interferes with matters of its members (members?)that go against church guidelines(which are)"

    No longer .. really as of what last month when the Minister stated an intent to look into this religion?

    No llonger shunning?

    No directions on marriages on intimacy.?

    fasten your seat belts!

  • cantleave
    cantleave

    The printed book is pretty inoccuous, it is the hand written notes and the references to the policy file that require scrutiny.

  • RagingBull
    RagingBull

    Seems like changes were made and the BOE letter about it did not get read at the meetings. LOL

    I wonder how many would abruptly stop attending upon hearing that news. No longer addresses or interferes my ass.

  • RagingBull
    RagingBull
  • DATA-DOG
    DATA-DOG

    " According to representatives of the Jehovah's Witnesses, committee practices have been changed recently and the committee no longer addresses or interferes in the matters of its members that are considered to go against church guidelines."

    Bull-shit...

    DD

  • FatFreek 2005
    FatFreek 2005

    Peanuts knows the poop.

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