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GwenFormer Witness in McAlester, Oklahoma, Says Elders Ignored Abuse Claims
Reveal reports that the Jehovah’s Witnesses leadership has developed strategies to conceal allegations of sexual abuse. According to internal documents cited in the investigation, Witnesses instruct local elders...
Lawyer Truman Rucker Reflects on Church in Collinsville, Oklahoma, Discipline Case Two Decades Later
In a 2004 interview published by The Christian Chronicle, Truman Rucker, a member and elder of the Jenks, Okla., Church of Christ, discussed the 1984 lawsuit known as...
Analysis Finds Jehovah’s Witnesses Have Lowest U.S. Retention Rate but Still Gain Members
Jehovah’s Witnesses trace their origins to the Bible Student Movement of the 1870s, which grew out of the independent Bible study of Charles Taze Russell. According to the...
Former and Current Jehovah’s Witnesses Describe Alleged Cover-Ups of Child Abuse in UK Congregations
Former and current members of Jehovah’s Witnesses have described cover-ups of child sexual abuse in congregations across the United Kingdom, according to two separate news reports. The Guardian...
Louisville, Kentucky, Church Keeps Female Pastor After Southern Baptist Convention Expulsion
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) removed Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville from its fellowship in June, because the church has a female pastor. Congregants say they still...
