The state law, in Washington, applies to all religions but has outraged Catholics in particular. The Justice Department is investigating. By Ruth Graham The attacker received a warning but was allowed ...

(RNS) — Thirty years after Eritrea revoked the citizenship of Jehovah’s Witnesses, international human rights experts are condemning the nation’s persecution of the religious group and advocating for ...

(RNS) — Nine Jehovah’s Witnesses were convicted of extremism by a Russian court on Tuesday (March 5), receiving sentences of up to seven years in a penal colony for practicing their faith. Of those ...

The Czech authorities are mulling whether to crack down on the local branch of Jehovah’s Witnesses, whose warning of ‘religious persecution’ is downplayed by its critics as martyrdom posturing. In a ...

For years, rumors about Scott Merritt and the underage girls in a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses on the Kenai Peninsula hovered over the congregation. As far back as the 1990s, members remember ...

June 16 (UPI) --A member of the Jehovah's Witnesses serving a seven-year sentence in a Russian prison for practicing his faith was recently tortured for information about other members of the church, ...

Little wonder, this church has been called many names and has been involved in a lot of controversies. Thus, there is a need to shed some light on this unique church. Here are five 'interesting' ...

Fifty years ago next month, Joseph Franklin Rutherford became the second president of the Watchtower Society, succeeding Charles Taze Russell. It was during Rutherford’s presidency that the group ...