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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

Jehovah's Witnesses

People walk through the Tiergarten Park, in Berlin, Germany, where a new memorial commemorating Jehovah's Witness victims of the Nazis is set to be built, February 25, 2021. (STEFANIE LOOS/AFP)
June 23, 2023, 11:49 am
German MPs back memorial for Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted and killed by Nazis
Parliament calls on government to build monument in Berlin’s Tiergarten Park; foundation running existing sites says 1,700 followers of religion died under Third Reich
By AP
Illustrative: Heavily armed police inspect the area near a Jehovah's Witness church where several people have been killed in a shooting in Hamburg, northern Germany, on late March 9, 2023. (Daniel Reinhardt / AFP)
March 10, 2023, 1:24 am
Several killed in shooting attack on Jehovah’s Witness church in Germany
Gunman possibly among dead in Hamburg Kingdom Hall, police say, but few details available about casualties or motive
By AP
Participants attend a hearing of the justice ministry request to ban the Jehovah's Witnesses at Russia's Supreme Court in Moscow on April 20, 2017. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)
April 22, 2017, 2:13 am
Russia bans Jehovah’s Witnesses as ‘extremist’
Supreme Court rules group’s property will be turned over to state after justice ministry claims it is a ‘threat to public safety’
By victoria LOGUINOVA-YAKOVLEVA
Donald Trump speaking during a campaign rally with, from left to right, his wife Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, in Waterloo, Iowa, Feb. 1, 2016. (JTA/Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
April 14, 2016, 4:06 pm
Trump’s son-in-law may buy Jehovah’s Witnesses HQ
Jared Kushner and other real-estate developers looking at building in trendy Dumbo section of Brooklyn
By JTA
An aerial view of Ra’anana, a city in central Israel. (photo credit: Flash90/Moshe Shai)
May 1, 2015, 11:41 pm
Israeli city asks court to OK ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses event
Ra’anana municipality petitions judiciary over Christian gathering following fears of adherents proselytizing
By JTA
Leopold Engleitner (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)
May 2, 2013, 4:42 pm
Oldest known concentration camp survivor dead at 107
Leopold Engleitner, a Jehovah’s Witness, survived three concentration and forced labor camps between 1939 and 1945
Avi Rockoff
June 7, 2012, 2:58 pm
Avi Rockoff
The Bible tells me so
When I first married, I welcomed Jehovah’s Witness emissaries in when they came to our apartment door. Eventually my wife ordered me not to let them in any more. My original namesake, Abraham, had to listen to his wife too. Genesis says so
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