This was a political topic, nothing legal. There was no reason for them to be there for them except one: they were recently (May 7th, 2009) recognized as an official church in Austria, a status they had been fighting for since 1978. Now they also have to play the game.
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Austrian Branch Participating in Interfaith Discussion
by GermanXJW inon june 9th, 2009 austrian chancellor werner faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in austia that are registered under public law.it was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things.
among the participating churches were among others catholic, protestant, greek orthodox, jews, muslim, mormons, buddhist and - jehovah's witnesses!.
you find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=ots_20090608_ots0170.
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Austrian Branch Participating in Interfaith Discussion
by GermanXJW inon june 9th, 2009 austrian chancellor werner faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in austia that are registered under public law.it was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things.
among the participating churches were among others catholic, protestant, greek orthodox, jews, muslim, mormons, buddhist and - jehovah's witnesses!.
you find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=ots_20090608_ots0170.
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The reason for the meeting was some campaigning for the European elections by the extreme right that focussed on Christianity.
Background: http://eubusiness.com/news-eu/1242912729.76/
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Austrian Branch Participating in Interfaith Discussion
by GermanXJW inon june 9th, 2009 austrian chancellor werner faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in austia that are registered under public law.it was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things.
among the participating churches were among others catholic, protestant, greek orthodox, jews, muslim, mormons, buddhist and - jehovah's witnesses!.
you find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=ots_20090608_ots0170.
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Here is another picture of the event:
"And I caught sight of a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored wild beast" (Revelation 17:4)
"At one table a lie is what they will keep speaking. But nothing will succeed." (Daniel 11:27)
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Austrian Branch Participating in Interfaith Discussion
by GermanXJW inon june 9th, 2009 austrian chancellor werner faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in austia that are registered under public law.it was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things.
among the participating churches were among others catholic, protestant, greek orthodox, jews, muslim, mormons, buddhist and - jehovah's witnesses!.
you find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=ots_20090608_ots0170.
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A Catholic News Agency states here: http://www.kathpress.co.at/content/site/nachrichten/database/26439.html
"The religious communities in Austria want to stand up more for a solidly united and integrated society. That is a result of a meeting of delegates of all 14 registered churches and religious communities with Chancellor Werner Faymann on Tueday in Vienna. Especially in economically hard times understand for each other is getting more important says Faymann after the one-hour-talk to journalists. He thanked the delegates for their willingness to stregthen the things in common in Austria and announced another meeting for the fall of 2009"
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Austrian Branch Participating in Interfaith Discussion
by GermanXJW inon june 9th, 2009 austrian chancellor werner faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in austia that are registered under public law.it was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things.
among the participating churches were among others catholic, protestant, greek orthodox, jews, muslim, mormons, buddhist and - jehovah's witnesses!.
you find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=ots_20090608_ots0170.
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Yes, they were just recognized as an official church in Austria and one of the first thing was to join this meeting.
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Austrian Branch Participating in Interfaith Discussion
by GermanXJW inon june 9th, 2009 austrian chancellor werner faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in austia that are registered under public law.it was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things.
among the participating churches were among others catholic, protestant, greek orthodox, jews, muslim, mormons, buddhist and - jehovah's witnesses!.
you find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=ots_20090608_ots0170.
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On June 9th, 2009 Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in Austia that are registered under public law.It was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the Austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things. Among the participating churches were among others Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Jews, Muslim, Mormons, Buddhist and - Jehovah's Witnesses!
You find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=OTS_20090608_OTS0170
Photos of the event are found here: http://fotoservice.bundeskanzleramt.at/imagecatalogue/image/list/19347
The JW delegate Walter Schneeweiß is the third head from the left on the group photo. It seems that he was avoiding to be clearly seen.
The picture reminds me of the picture that WT used in 1986 about the meeting in Assisi:
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Why do American's pronounce herbs as 'erbs?
by yadda yadda 2 init's spelt herbs and it's not a silent h, so why do american's pronounce it 'erbs?
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Excuse my French.
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Growing up in a communist country ...
by Albert Einstein ini lived for the first 20 years of my life in a communist country.. .
great .... .
we were told we lived in the best regime, had best medical care, best election system, best goverment, no criminality like in the western countries, no unemploymence like in the western countries, not all the problems like people in the west ..... .
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...and there was a committee of old men.
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Foxnews = Internet to run out of room by 2010- JWN will close this time!
by Witness 007 inthe internet will soon run out of room according to fox causing "brown outs" at first with the internet slowing down drastically before it closes down!
will jwn close after all these years???
what will you do with your new spare time?.
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Could be made up by an internet company - or several of them - looking for investments.
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German XJW-Comedian Uses NWT for Bible Sketch on TV
by GermanXJW ingerman comdedian oliver pocher has been raised as jw as he frankly declares.
in his current tv show he uses the story of lot and his daughters and uses his nwt.
he also uses some of the typical jw phrases like inviting the audience to use their own bibles.. starts at 8min10 here:.
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German comdedian Oliver Pocher has been raised as JW as he frankly declares. In his current TV show he uses the story of Lot and his daughters and uses his NWT. He also uses some of the typical JW phrases like inviting the audience to use their own Bibles.
Starts at 8min10 here:
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/6312201/Oliver_Pocher_Gefaehrliches_Halbwissen_8_18
continues here: http://www.myvideo.de/watch/6312324/Oliver_Pocher_Gefaehrliches_Halbwissen_9_18
He also tells the audience again that he was raised as a JW. When someone is laughing he says "This is serious" and says it might be the case that he knocked at door at 9:30 in the morning at [points at people in the audience] you, you you you and you. But not you because I would remember"
