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Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

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Fri, April 23, 2021

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Jehovah’s Witnesses

A Medieval rendering of Catholic excommunication. But excommunication continues today.

04/23/2021 Yannick Thiels

Excommunication: Looking for a Balance of Interests Between Opposite Freedoms

The Ghent Court decision declaring shunning as practiced by Jehovah’s Witnesses illegal ignores European and Belgian precedents, and is clearly wrong.

From the Watchtower, January 15, 2013: “Hoping that a loved one will return to Jehovah.”

04/21/2021 James Richardson

The Ghent Jehovah’s Witness Decision: Anomaly or a New Reality?

In an unprecedented ruling, judges turned the long-standing interpretation of articles 9, 10, 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights on its head.

From the Watchtower, April 15, 2015

04/20/2021 George Chryssides

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Disfellowshipping, Shunning, and the Ghent Ruling

Many do not understand how shunning exactly works. Erroneous representations of the practice may have influenced the Ghent judges.

From the “Operation North” exhibition.

04/16/2021 Massimo Introvigne

Operation North: When Stalin Deported the Jehovah’s Witnesses

Seventy years ago, 9,793 believers were taken from their homes in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and sent to Siberia.

Where it all started: the first page of the Discourse on Voluntary Servitude.

04/13/2021 Massimo Introvigne

Jehovah’s Witnesses: How the Ghent Decision Subverted the Idea of Liberty

Declaring that shunning “apostates” is a crime implies accepting the ideology that surrendering our freedom to an organization is always suspicious.

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04/12/2021 Willy Fautré

The Ghent Case Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses: A Chronology

The criminal investigation that got into the spotlight earlier this year did in fact start in 2015.

Big brother is watching you

03/20/2021 Massimo Introvigne

The Ghent Jehovah’s Witnesses Decision: Big Brother Is Watching You

The Belgian court adopted an intrusive view of the powers of the state, incompatible with democracy—and with common sense.

On July 27, 1656, philosopher Baruch Spinoza was disfellowshipped by the Jewish community of Amsterdam. The herem ordered that “no one should communicate with him, not even in writing, nor accord him any favor nor stay with him under the same roof nor [come] within four cubits in his vicinity” (from Twitter).

03/19/2021 Massimo Introvigne

The Ghent Jehovah’s Witness Decision: Dangerous for All Religions

Suggesting that current members do not associate with “apostate” ex-members has been historically common in many religions.

The United States Courthouse (later renamed after William K. Nakamura) in Seattle, where the landmark decision Paul was rendered in 1987.

03/18/2021 Massimo Introvigne

The Ghent Jehovah’s Witnesses Decision: Dangers for Religious Liberty

Contrary to other courts in several countries, the Belgian judges dangerously intruded into the internal organization of a religious group.

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