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DYRT BRØDRE, SØSTRE, VENNER: Vores fælleskab giver glæde uanset forskellige
trosretninger (GA 5:22), og Kristne Vidners egne overbevisninger er frihed til at afvige forenet med kærlighed (Ro 14:1-5;
Co 3:14); opstandelse til himlen eller jord; invitere venlige folk til at læse i Bibelen i hjemmet eller andre steder
(Mt 28:19, Ro 16:1), bede, spise sammen, hjælpe de nødlidende. (GA 2:10) Herren er en respektfuld titel, Guds
navn er undertiden givet som Jehova eller Yahweh, (Ps 83:18, KJ), selv om Paulus siger at kalde Gud "Abba", der
er Far i aramæisk og Kristus i Herrens bønner ikke klart siger, bede til "Vor Fader i himlen." (Mt
6:9) Grupper af to eller flere kristne, kan genkende og udpege tjenester til alle villige velrænomerede ældre,
der er ældste. (1Tim 3; Ac 6:5) De tjener som vores ansatte eller ministre, men Kristus er vores eneste højeste,
overordnede Leader, mest loyale og diskrete slave. (Mt 23:10; 24:45)
DEAR BROTHERS, SISTERS, FRIENDS: Our fellowship offers joy
regardless of different beliefs (Ga 5:22), and Christian Witnesses' own beliefs are freedom to differ united by love (Ro
14:1-5; Co 3:14); resurrection to heaven or earth; inviting friendly people to Bible readings in homes or elsewhere(Mt 28:19,
Ro 16:1), praying, sharing meals, helping the needy. (Ga 2:10) Lord is a respectful title, God's name
is sometimes given as Jehovah or Yahweh, (Ps 83:18, KJ) although Paul says to call God "Abba" which
is Dad in Aramaic and Christ in the Lord's Prayer does clearly say pray to "Our Father in heaven." (Mt
6:9) Groups of two or more Christians can recognize and appoint to services any to all willing, reputable
older ones, that is elders. (1Tim 3; Ac 6:5) They serve as our servants or ministers, but Christ
is our only top, overall Leader, the MOST Faithful and Discreet Slave. (Mt 23:10; 24:45)
DENMARK
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JEHOVAHS
VIDNER TABER MELEMMER
17. mar 2009
"For ti år siden havde Jehovas Vidner 15.234 medlemmer. Sidste år var antallet faldet til 14.500.
Jehovas Vidner i Danmark har tabt 734 medlemmer, hvilket svarer til et fald på knap fem procent."http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/317268
JEHOVAH'S
WITNESSES LOSE MEMBERS
March 17, 2009
March 17, 2009 11:25
"The number of Jehovah's Witnesses in Denmark has fallen by five percent. Ten years ago, Jehovah's Witnesses had
15,234 members. Last year the number had fallen to 14,500. "
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ALARM! Disse er fakta om de ledende mænd i Vagttårn selskabet
over Jehovas Vidner. De er farlige for børn af Jehovas Vidner og offentligheden. De giver ordrer til de lokale ledere
af Jehovas Vidner. De lokale ledere er kaldet ældste. Deres ledere skjuler og beskytter pædofile blandt Jehovas
Vidner i stedet for at fortælle andre Jehovas Vidner, hvem de pædofile er. Den pædofile kan lettere skade
børnene. Nogle ældste fra Vagttårn Selskabet er også pædofile. (Bekræft på silentlambs.org
eller google.com)
Nogle kilder anslår, at fra 1945 indtil nu cirka 250.000 JWs og deres børn er døde
efter at nægte blodtransfusioner i nødsituationer. (ajwrb.org; bogen blod på alteret af David A. Reed)
Hvorfor? Vagttårn Selskabets ledere underviser at skrifterne siger at man skal afholde sig fra blod. Men de underviser
ikke på samme tid 1 Samuel 14:31-35. Der viser at Gud tilgav Saul's mænd, der spiste kød med blod i
det for at holde sig i live. Kristus siger også i Mattæus 12:7, at Gud ønsker barmbhjertighed ikke slagtofre.
Vagttårn Selskabets ledere giver også ordre om, at Jehovas Vidner skal UNDGÅ andre Jehovas Vidner, der på
fredelig vis er uenige i troen. Dette har ofte ødelagte familier af Jehovas Vidner.
Der er gode ældstes
og andre Jehovas Vidner, men Vagttårn Selskabets ledere er til fare for både Jehovas Vidner og offentligheden.
Husk, at mange Jehovas Vidner også er ofre for Vagttårn Selskabet. Doner ikke penge, der hjælper Vagttårn
Selskabet. Hvis du ønsker at hjælpe deres børn og børn af det offentlige, kan du donere for at
hjælpe andre grupper eller silentlambs.org. Du har også tilladelse til at lave og distribuere kopier af dette.
Det er fra kristne af forskellige trosretninger. Vi er enige i vejen til Kristus er kærlighed. Også familier og
børn har brug for information for at være trygge og glade.
ALERT!
These are facts about the main men in the Watchtower Society over Jehovah’s Witnesses. They
endanger the children of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Public. They give orders to the local leaders
of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The local leaders are called the Elders. Their leaders
hide and protect pedophiles among Jehovah’s Witnesses instead of tell other Jehovah’s Witnesses who the pedophiles
are. The pedophiles can more easily hurt the children. Some Elders of the Watchtower
Society are also pedophiles. (Confirm at silentlambs.org or google.com)
Some sources estimate that from 1945 until now
approximately 250,000 JWs and their children have died after refusing emergency blood transfusions. (ajwrb.org;
the book Blood On The Altar by David A. Reed) Why? Watchtower Society leaders teach
scriptures that say to abstain from blood. But they do not at the same time teach 1 Samuel 14:31-35.
It shows God forgave Saul’s men who ate meat with blood in it to stay alive. Also Christ says
at Matthew 12:7 that God wants Mercy not Sacrifice. Watchtower Society leaders also order Jehovah’s
Witnesses to shun other Jehovah’s Witnesses who peacefully dissent in beliefs. This
has often destroyed families of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
There are good Elders and other Jehovah’s Witnesses,
but the Watchtower Society’s leaders endanger both Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Public. Please
remember that many Jehovah’s Witnesses are victims of the Watchtower Society, too. Do not donate
any money that helps the Watchtower Society. If you want to help their children and children of the Public,
please donate to help other groups or silentlambs.org. You also have permission to make and distribute
copies of this. It is from Christians of different beliefs. We agree
the way of Christ is love. Also families and children need information to stay safe and happy.
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The church of Jehovah's Witnesses is exploiting the critical situation
facing many of the nation's refugees by evangelising to them in asylum centres. So says Mohammed-Reza Taremian, chairman
of the Århus Integration Council, in an interview with MetroXpress.
‘When they tell refugees that everything will be fine, and that it's easier
to gain asylum status if they listen to the Jehovah's Witnesses, that's exploiting their situation. They're being
tricked,’ said Taremian.
Taremian
says the Jehovah's Witness movement deliberately targets weak refugees, and is familiar with several cases where asylum
seekers were ‘tricked’ into the religious movement during their stays at asylum enters.
Anette Haugaard, press director at the Danish Red Cross asylum
department, confirmed that Jehovah's Witnesses had created problems at the centres.
‘Refugees at the Sandholm Centre feel harassed by the Jehovah's Witnesses.
We don't have a reliable overview of the problem right now, but we have prohibited the Jehovah's Witnesses from spreading
propaganda in our centres,’ Haugaard said.
Former longtime Jehovah's Witness Poul Dal said that the movement began a directed campaign toward refugees as early
as the mid-1990s.
‘We took note of where
they lived, and made sure to contact them again. The refugees' vulnerable situation was used,’ Dal told Politiken.
Jehovah's Witness spokesman Erik Jørgensen
confirmed the group's visits to refugees.
‘The
fact that refugees are in a difficult situation means they need support and help. But they're not victims. We're not
exploiting them,’ said Jørgensen.
Accusations about sexual molestation in Jehovah's Witness family
Accusations about sexual molestation can lead to disfellowshipping
A tragic family conflict is at the moment being carefully observed by Jehovah's Witnesses and former
members of the sect. It revolves around a fathers alleged sexual molesting his daughters and murder. The former Witnesses
are wondering if the Watchtower Society will take the accusations serious. According to former Witnesses and other critics
Jehovah's Witnesses routinely covers up crimes of this nature.
By Anne Korsholm
Something
indicates that the local Elders will be forced to do something this time, says Ppol Dal, which himself has been an Elder in
Jehovah's Witnesses but has now left the sect.
Head
of Information from Jehovah's Witnesses in Denmark, Erik Joergensen do not understand the criticism. According to him
the Witnesses has always taken accusations of child molestation very serious.
The alleged perpetrator is a 78-year-old man from Vesterhimmerland, which has been accused
of sexually molesting his daughters. One of the daughters claims that she gave birth to a child as a result of the abuse,
and that the 78-year-old man killed the baby.
Both
the father and the daughters are Jehovah's Witnesses.
Loekstoer Police has dismissed the case because of lack of evidence. Among other things it has been impossible
to ascertain if there has been born a baby, which was allegedly killed. According to the support group for ex-Witnesses, Christian
Freedom, also a grandchild of the 78 year old man has reported him to the police for molesting her. The Police will neither
to confirm nor deny this.
Convicted for silence
Jehovah's Witnesses in both USA and Europe
have been criticized in later years in connection with sexual abuse, because the Witnesses apparently has held such accusations
within the closed doors of the Kingdom Hall and not reported them to the police and worldly authorities.
In 1998,
3 Elders (Jehovah's Witnesses priest’s) in France convicted to imprisonment because they did not report a Witness,
which had molested his daughter to the Police. The Witness had showed repentance and gotten Jehovah’s – and the
Elders forgiveness. He did not receive forgiveness from the French authorities but 12 years in prison.
In the
USA there has been a number of reports about pedophile Jehovah's Witnesses, which has been protected by their leadership,
apparently so that the cases of sexual abuse wouldn’t hurt the sects reputation. According to Christian Freedoms latest
periodical there is now so many victims that a former Elder in Jehovah's Witnesses in the USA has founded an organization
for their benefit, “Silent Lambs”.
Witnesses
are taught to go to the Elders in the congregation with their problems and not to worldly authorities. It is therefore very
important that the local Elders take such accusations serious. Often an internal investigation about child molestation have
ended because there was no eyewitnesses, and Jehovah's Witnesses demands 2 or 3 witnesses, for a person to be convicted.
Internal punishment
Erik Joergensen says that eyewitnesses isn’t the only criteria
fro Jehovah's Witnesses to take a case serious.
We
will normally hear both parties in a case, we will talk to people who are close to those involved when the alleged abuse happened.
If the circumstances strongly indicate that there has been abuse or the accused confess to it, it will be counted as a fact.
He says.
Apparently Jehovah's Witnesses
internal investigation has been set in motion in this case. According to B.T. an internal court consisting of local Elders,
which is to decide if the 78 year old man is going to be disfellowshipped.
Erik Joergensen haven’t heard about this, but he can confirm that if the 78
year old is found guilty by the Police, he will most likely be disfellowhipped – possibly together with his wife, if
she knew about the abuse.
Jehovah's Witnesses
is first and foremost a religious society – not a court of law. We look at it as our first priority to help this family,
so it can live together, he emphasizes.
In
the last row
Disfellowshipping doesn’t
mean that the Witness have to leave the sect and about half of all disfellowhipped remains Jehovah's Witnesses, says Erik
Joergensen.
A disfellowhipped lose all positions
and the congregation as a social network. The Disfellowhipped can attend the meetings in the Kingdom Hall without the right
to comment and without socializing.
After
some time the disfellowhipped can apply for becoming a part of the congregation again, and the elders are sovereign in their
decision if and when he is to be allowed into the warmth again.
Poul Dal, was himself an Elder and participated
in disfellowshipping Witnesses which had violated the rules. He can remember that he was participating in disfellowshipping
a man, which had divorced and then remarried.
This
cost him 3 years on the last row in the Kingdom Hall. But you can also be disfellowhipped for buying a flagpole and hoist
the flag or if you receive a blood transfusion. I was disfellowhipped in 1995, because I didn’t believe that Jehovah's
Witnesses was the only channel used by God, says Poul Dal.
The Witnesses can often avoid being disfellowhipped if they quickly show repentance, but according to Erik
Joergensen this will not be the case if they have committed sexual abuse and murder.
The Danish newspaper “Kristeligt Dagblad” October 18, 2001 http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/nytomkirke/artikel:aid=8960
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http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/14232/1/Silentlambs-In-Denmark
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP ARRANGEMENT FOR
EXITING OR EXITED JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES -- FOR CHRISTIAN FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT, NOT ANOTHER ORGANIZATION WITH A HIERARCHY
OF RELIGIOUS OFFICIALS
1. This invites you to fellowship with the
new Christian Witnesses Fellowship which offers joy and Good News for Christians and others regardless of different beliefs.
(Ga 5:22, Jn 3:16) Being a true fellowship, it gives Christian association without having a hierarchy.
2. We believe in freedom to question and differ while staying united by love (Ro 14:1-5; Co 3:14); exercise
Bible-trained conscience in personal matters such as medical treatments like transfusions (1Sa 14:31-35, Mt 12:7), holiday
observance or non-observance (Col 2:16), whom to associate with, grooming, child-rearing, marriage, education and science.
3. Though free to differ, likely most of us believe in resurrection to heaven and upon earth for others; Christ
bringing many blessings for humankind. (Jn 3:16) Although guessing when such blessings may occur genuinely
interests many people, we instead emphasize showing love by doing hands-on acts of kindness. Salvation
is by grace but Faith Without Works is dead. (James 2:24) Love always wins and is the true mark of Christians. (1Jn
14:16) Also, there was and still remains “one faith,” (Eph 4:5), which is general Christianity but it has
good, average and bad branches with some true and false Christians in each.
4. We meet for fellowship by phone, via the internet or else in person invite friendly people to gather at a home
or elsewhere (Ro 16:1, Mt 28:19) for a thoughtful one chapter reading in the Bible, prayers, singing, music, a simple
meal; talks and or testimonials, programs to educate about Christian basics (He 6:1) and help the needy. (Ga 2:10,
Jas 2:24) The reading is not a debate forum but, as said, a thoughtful reading with prayer.
5. We may witness in various ways such as by talking or leaflets with ideas or activities
on helping the needy and educating about basic Christian beliefs (He 6:1), topics such as news, Bible items, social issues
such as crimes, climate change, etc.
6. We are structured as autonomous (self-governing) groups of two or
more who may recognize or appoint reputable elders (older ones) for doing desired services such as conducting wedding and
funerals (1Tim 3; Ac 6:5) but Christ is our only top Leader. (Mt 23:10; 24:45) Such are our servants not overlords.
In Christ we are as one. (Ga 3:28)
7. We observe the memorial of the Last Supper yearly or so often as a group
wishes to meet and observe it. We normally baptize by full immersion in water. Groups may also decide if to wash
feet as Christ did to teach others to act as humble servants not above others. Those are options, not laws or rules.
8. Our name is simply Christians but to distinguish ourselves as laws etc may require we are also free to use a more
descriptive name such as Christians at such-and-such a place or Free Christians.
9. Readers are invited to contact christianwitnesses.com for
an online songbook, tracts (leaflets), general Christian association, announcements, handy ideas and items etc.
10. The battle to be Free Christians goes some 2000 years back to the
start of Christianity. In modern times too Christians have continued in search of and in defense of Christian
Freedom.
