(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 ...

Jehovah Witnesses in Ghana on Friday began the celebration of 100 years in Ghana of their notable preaching, teaching and other activities, asserting that they have made a positive impact on the ...

A 68-year-old Jehovah’s Witness in Russia’s Kurgan region died on Monday, roughly a month after a local court fined him 500,000 rubles ($5,000) for “organizing the activities of an extremist ...

The lawyer for a Lower Burrell man charged as part of a grand jury probe into allegations of widespread child sex abuse claims within the Jehovah Witnesses community on Thursday argued the case ...

Current and former Jehovah’s Witnesses reported 159 cases of sexual ... These acts are considered sexual abuse under welfare ministry guidelines released at the end of last year.

A federal judge sentenced an Olympia man to 11 years in prison Friday for arson and a shooting aimed at three Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Halls in Western Washington, bringing an end to a case ...

The Olympia man who damaged and destroyed several area Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Halls was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison for the 2018 crime spree, U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman announced.

Hollywood star Luke Evans has described the difficulties growing up as a Jehovah's Witness knowing he was gay. Evans said he hid his sexuality, partly to protect his parents. Jehovah's Witnesses ...

The Olympia man who damaged and destroyed several area Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Halls was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison for the 2018 crime spree, U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman announced.

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — The man who admitted to torching and shooting at Kingdom Halls of the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2018 will spend 11 years in federal prison, a judge ruled Friday afternoon.

Wright sentenced Aviles-Garriga, a Jehovah’s Witness elder, to 11½ to 25 years in prison on 12 charges of sexual assault against children in families that were hosting him from 1999 to 2003.