The Latest Breaking News from Jehovah Witnesses

SAN DIEGO — When a San Diego immigration judge told Olga Ponomareva that she would be allowed to stay in the United States, she wanted to leap in the air.

Locked inside the Jehovah's Witnesses world headquarters are secret files detailing sexual abuse by members of the religious denomination. Some of those files are slowly coming to light thanks to a grand jury investigation by state Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office that was spurred by The Inquirer.

SAN DIEGO — Twice a week, Olga Ponomareva dresses in some of her nicest clothing to stand on a sidewalk in La Jolla Shores with a display of pamphlets about the Bible.

THORNTON, Colo. — A married couple is dead in a suspected murder-suicide at a Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in Thornton on Christmas morning, and a hazmat team is investigating “suspicious devices” found at the scene, authorities said.

A court in Russia's far east on Wednesday sentenced five Jehovah's Witnesses to more than six years in prison, just two days after four other believers were also sent to jail, the religious group said.

A Russian court has sentenced four Jehovah's Witnesses adherents to prison terms of between three-and-a-half and seven years, the latest step in Moscow's crackdown on an organisation it deems dangerous, the religious group said late on Monday.

Clergy in 33 states are exempt from laws requiring professionals such as teachers, physicians and psychotherapists to report information about alleged child abuse to police or child welfare officials

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"I've been looking forward to this day," said one member of the faith. "When I rang the first doorbell this morning, a total calm came over me. I was back where I needed to be."

Jehovah’s Witnesses have resumed knocking on doors again after a 30-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic

Ali Millar was brought up in Scotland as a Jehovah's Witness. By the time she left, she was overwhelmed with shame and shunned by friends and family.