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Some Jehovah's Witnesses may accept prohibited blood products if medical confidentiality is upheld, [288] although Jehovah's Witnesses who work in a hospital may break such confidentiality. [289] Jehovah's Witness patients are generally open to non-blood alternative treatments, even if they are less effective.
Knocking is a 2006 documentary film directed by Joel Engardio [1] and Tom Shepard that focuses on the civil liberties fought for by Jehovah's Witnesses.It focuses primarily on the stories of three Jehovah's Witnesses, and how their lives demonstrate three fundamental Witness teachings that have affected society in general: Conscientious objection, and rejection of blood transfusions and ...
Truth Be Told focuses on seven individuals raised in the Jehovah's Witnesses denomination. In a series of informal interviews, they reveal experiences including the effects of proselytizing door-to-door, shunning non-observant family and friends, suffering the discouragement of pursuing goals such as higher education and missing other societal holidays and customs.
Jehovah's Witnesses' practices are based on the biblical interpretations of Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), founder (c. 1881) of the Bible Student movement, and of successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford (from 1917 to 1942) and Nathan Homer Knorr (from 1942 to 1977).
Jehovah’s Witnesses volunteer ministers from left 34 year residentof City of Compton Bell Stewart (L), Rose Godfrey (C), and Sarah Lee, wait to interact with people on July 19, 2012 in Compton ...
Katherine Jackson, a devout Jehovah’s Witness, raised all 10 of her children in the Jehovah’s Witness faith, and while some of them strayed as they reached adulthood, Michael remained committed.
The Photo-Drama of Creation, or Creation-Drama, is a four-part audiovisual presentation (eight hours in total) produced by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania under the direction of Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Bible Student movement.
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that the present world order, which they believe to be under the control of Satan, will be ended by a direct intervention of Jehovah (God), who will use Jesus to fully establish his heavenly government over earth, destroying existing human governments and non-Witnesses, [5] and creating a cleansed society of true ...