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  Pope Francis condemns child sex abuse and Church cover-ups

  by pleaseresearch in

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  2. bible

  this is good from the pope and really puts a lot of shame on our gb.

  i could never see them doing this.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45249109.

  pope francis has condemned the "atrocities" of child sex abuse and clerical cover-ups in a letter to the world's 1.2bn roman catholics.. the letter to "the people of god" calls for an end to the "culture of death" in the church, addresses failures to deal with abuse and asks for forgiveness.. last week a grand jury report detailed seven decades of abuse in pennsylvania.. the landmark investigation found more than 1,000 identifiable minors had been abused by 300 priests in the us state.. thousands more are thought to have fallen victim.

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  All 1.2 billion Catholics should be ashamed of themselves for being part of that shitty religion.
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  Newspaper reports: Dutch government will initiate inquiry into child abuse within JW community

  by Anders Andersen in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  today a dutch newspaper published an in-depth follow-up item on jw abuse issues.. the most interesting part of the article is this:.

  the politicians also let themselves be heard.

  a month ago the house of representatives voted unanimously in favor of a motion to enforce an independent inquiry into abuse within the jehovah's witnesses, as the organization refuses to initiate it.

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  How did those in charge of the congregation respond to the accusations?

  Probably, and I'm just assuming, of course,

  very poorly

  and with a view to prioritizing protecting the good name of the organization concerned whether that be the Scouts, Oxfam, the Catholic Church, or even Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower.
  

  -Are the religion's policies adequate to protect minors within it's ranks?

  See answer to first question and take a guess.
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  BBC Radio 2 Vanessa Feltz show. Shunning and Jehovah's Witnesses

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  on air now..

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  On air now.
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  Regional Convention Stat. from the UK

  by freddo in

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  2. friends

  another fantastic increase i mean stagnation for the jborg chariot .... cardiff, wales, uk convention july 27-29th 2018. attendances 3500/3600 (friday) - 4150 (sunday) approx.. baptisms - wait for it ... drumroll ... 10..

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  I was in Cardiff last night (Saturday) and saw several of them walking around the city centre. Made me a bit depressed seeing the young ones in their teens and twenties as I thought of the lives they are wasting. They had their badges on while in casual clothes. I never wore a badge even in 'meeting clothes' let alone civvies.
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  Do You Think The Mayor of London Is Doing a Good Job?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  his city seems pretty dangerous especially since he has taken over and of course he just loves trump.

  lol .

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  And he's of Pakistani background.
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  Blade Runner mentioned in the Watchtower

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  2. friends

  can anyone remember or point me to a quote in either the watchtower or awake where they spoke adversely about some of the violent scenes in the original blade runner film.

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  thanks.

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  Can anyone remember or point me to a quote in either the Watchtower or Awake where they spoke adversely about some of the violent scenes in the original Blade Runner film.

  Thanks
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  The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.

  thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.

  we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.

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  9 years . 3 posts. One password. Welcome back
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  Dutch House of Representatives formally requests the government to start an investigation re. JW child abuse

  by Anders Andersen in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  today the dutch house of representatives unanimously voted to petition the government to start an investigation into jw child abuse issues.. the request from the house of reps. came after jw nl refused to listen to repeated and serious requests from the government to start an independent investigation themselves.. now it's up to the government to either accept the request by the house of reps. and start an investigation, or refuse to do so and explain to the house why.

  it appears the minister of justice is not unwilling to start an investigation though.... collection of dutch news items here.

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  Doubter said,

  ''If 300 people accused me of dealing illegal drugs because I am a doctor who writes prescriptions to sick people, that doesn’t mean I’m dealing illegal drugs.''

  No, of course it wouldn't mean that you were actually dealing illegal drugs. That would be a bit silly wouldn't it.

  However I have to say that if 300 different people accused my doctor of dealing illegal drugs then at the very least I'd want somebody, preferably the police in this analogy, to do some kind of investigation. Wouldn't anybody?
  
  
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  The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.

  thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.

  we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.

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  Good news
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  Are we losing our way a bit at JWN?

  by nicolaou in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  firstly, i want to be crystal clear how grateful i am for jwn.

  it's been my place of support for over seventeen years and it's the first online space i direct anyone to if they are taking steps out of the cult.

  i am not bashing jwn - i love this place and appreciate the hard work and expense simon puts in to keep it going.

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  Cobweb,

  ''When i come to this forum i select hottest and latest to structure what i see. This means that Politics gets included and tends to dominate which i don't like. I don't know if there is anything i can do about that - maybe someone could make a suggestion.''

  Me too. And I don't sign in unless I want to post. So I rarely get to see/read anything under 'members only.'

  Any new visitors are unlikely to sign up and sign in straight away so are also unlikely to read anything members only. Maybe get anything political related moved to members only. But I don't know how practical that would be.