Current and former Jehovah’s Witnesses reported 159 cases of sexual abuse by followers, many at the hands of those in positions of authority, according to a survey conducted by an apostate group.

(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 ...

A woman in her 40s from the Kanto region raised as a second-generation Jehovah’s Witness is speaking out about the trauma she experienced growing up while belonging to the religious group.

For some former Jehovah's Witnesses, leaving the faith is not just the mark of losing your religion - it can also mean losing your loved ones. In many cases, friends and family are told to cut all ...

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.

At least 20 former Jehovah's Witnesses are suing the group over historical sexual abuse they say they suffered. The group has a policy of not punishing alleged child sex abuse unless a second ...

Born to two devout Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Clash of the Titans star, 45, was raised in the church, where he was taught that homosexuality was wrong. Jehovah’s Witnesses is a denomination of ...

Back at just her second major event since childbirth, Serena Williams made headlines during the US Open for myriad reasons. Outside of the obvious was the reminder, as she said in Queens, that she ...

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 ...

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Team Jacob for sure. It wasn't necessarily a sexual awakening, because I was raised in a very strict Jehovah's Witness family, but I had a sexuality awakening watching Xena: The Warrior Princess.