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Jehovah's Witnesses employ various levels of congregational discipline as formal controls administered by congregation elders. Members who engage in conduct that is considered inappropriate may be counseled privately by elders, and congregational responsibilities may be withheld or restricted.
The 103-year-old believes the reason she was banned is because she spoke out about the church's pastor, Rev. Tim Maddox. "He told police he wanted to put us out, but the police told him 'you can't ...
(Session 19- Basel) Anyone who vexes or makes an issue out of property that a convert unjustly held but had given to the church, and which the church then put to pious use. (Session 2 -Ferrara) All who directly or indirectly attempt to molest people attending the Council receive an automatic excommunication reserved to the Holy See.
In the canon law of the Catholic Church, excommunication (Lat. ex, "out of", and communio or communicatio, "communion"; literally meaning "exclusion from communion") is a form of censure. In the formal sense of the term, excommunication includes being barred not only from the sacraments but also from the fellowship of Christian baptism . [ 1 ]
Michael Tullberg/Getty Images When John Stamos was 17 years old, he was allegedly recruited to join the Church of Scientology though his membership didn’t last long. “With me, I was in an ...
Days before the Nov. 7 election, a jury sided with the Olathe school board candidate, saying she was unfairly removed from a meeting because of the views she expressed.
At one Narcotics Anonymous meeting, Patrick ran into two young women he knew from rehab. Those women could be bad news, he confessed to his mother one afternoon in their kitchen. Let’s get out the NA schedule and find a different meeting, Anne offered. Patrick told her he’d already found a later one to attend. He had it covered.
The situation escalated when citizens of Jackson County convened a town meeting to address their concerns on "the Mormon issue". The meeting's address, penned on July 20, accused the Mormons, who were described as "little above the condition of our blacks either in regard to property or education", of having a "corrupting influence on our ...