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Ball and then-husband and eventual "I Love Lucy" costar Desi Arnaz formed Desilu in 1950. Ball made most of all of the creative choices while Arnaz handled the business. The two worked as partners for years until they divorced in 1960, and Ball purchased Arnaz's share of the company in 1962. Ball was the head of a major studio, and thus one of the most powerful women in Hollywood at the time. When the landmark "The Untouchables" ended its run in 1963, Desilu desperately needed another big hit. Herbert Solow, who was hired to find projects for the studio, brought Ball two proposals: one for Roddenberry's "Star Trek" and another for "Mission: Impossible." It was clear that the "Star Trek" pilot would be expensive to film, but Ball — who actually believed the series was about traveling USO performers — overruled her board of directors and got the pilot produced. The pilot, titled "The Cage," famously flopped. However, NBC pulled an unlikely move and ordered a second pilot, which came to be called "Where No Man Has Gone Before," only retained Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock from the first pilot, and became the show it is known as today. Ball agreed to finance this reshoot, again over the preferences of her board of directors. https://www.businessinsider.com/lucille-ball-is-the-reason-we-have-star-trek-heres-what-happened-2016-7

La tecnología se ha convertido en el gran aliado para el mundo entero en los diferentes campos. Y esta herramienta también lo ha sido para los testigos de Jehová, sobre todo en estos días, que recuerdan la muerte de Jesús. Desde hace varios años utilizan una aplicación digital gratuita llamada JW Library (disponible para dispositivos Windows, iOS y Android), en la que tienen acceso al material a considerar cada semana en sus reuniones, además de su sitio oficial www.jw.org disponible en más de 1000 idiomas. Fernando Brito, portavoz de esta religión, explica cómo se han organizado. https://www.eluniverso.com/guayaquil/2020/04/11/nota/7810572/traves-lectura-evangelios-recuerdan-sacrificio-jesus

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Está prohibido cualquier escrito publicado por los Testigos de Jehová en Singapur ya que dicha doctrina religiosa se encuentra perseguida en este país. http://blureport.com.mx/el-mundo-semanal/turismo-2/singapur-una-ciudad-de-prohibiciones/

El vocero de los Testigos de Jehová en Ecuador, Fernando Brito, indica a EXPRESO que hay muchas personas que están buscando a Dios, por medio de la oración y la lectura de la Biblia. Entonces en la página oficial de la organización (jw.org) se ha publicado información para dar consuelo y ánimo, se puede leer la información tan solo ingresando a la indicada página web. Allí se encuentran artículos que explican cómo calmar el estrés y la forma de hallar consuelo en tiempos difíciles. https://www.expreso.ec/guayaquil/testigos-jehova-enfocados-dar-consuelo-animo-comunidad-9021.html

The April 1st verdict to the believer — a husband and father of two children — provides a list of material evidence by which one can judge the nature of his ‘crime’: “Religious cards; religious games; envelope with religious pictures; Bible domino; folder with Bible comics; box with postcards.” https://jw-russia.org/en/news/2020/04/7.html

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus has refused to extradite a Jehovah’s Witnesses follower, Nikolai Makhalichev, to Russia. He was released from custody, human rights organization Human Constanta said on Facebook. A Russian national and member of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group, Makhalichev has spent 40 days in custody in Belarus. Human rights activists hope that the Belarusian authorities will give the Russian a refugee status or asylum, after which he will be able to live in safety. Nikolai Makhalichev, 36, was detained on February 21 in the town of Haradok, Viciebsk region. He was told that Russia had put him on an interstate wanted list because he belonged to a banned religious community. http://spring96.org/en/news/96471

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PRISONS ARE fecund incubators for coronavirus — people in tight proximity, surfaces easily contaminated, closed internal spaces, poor hygiene and lack of medicines. For those around the world who have been thrown into jails for their beliefs, the pandemic could become a death sentence. Prisoners everywhere must be protected from the virus on humanitarian grounds, and political prisoners ought to be freed now so they do not die for their words and convictions. In Kyrgyzstan, journalist Azimjon Askarov is ill. Let him go. Iran must release Iranian American businessman Siamak Namazi, held for more than four years in Evin prison. In Russia, the political prisoners include 26 Jehovah’s Witnesses in pretrial detention and eight in penal colonies. They should not face a covid-19 death sentence for their religious beliefs. In Venezuela, the “Citgo 6” have been recently moved from house arrest to prison. They are six oil company executives — five U.S. citizens and one permanent resident — arrested and detained in 2017. They must be released. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-pandemic-threatens-imprisoned-dissidents-and-journalists-everywhere-they-must-be-freed/2020/04/03/87305f0e-7510-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html

Nearly six months after being seized, Dushanbe's Military Court jailed 20-year-old Jehovah's Witness conscientious objector Jovidon Bobojonov today (2 April) for two years in a general regime labour camp for refusing compulsory military service. He has already appealed against his conviction. While held in the military unit, personnel tortured Bobojonov with beatings to pressure him to take the military oath and put on uniform. The Military Court in the capital Dushanbe today (2 April) jailed 20-year-old Jehovah's Witness conscientious objector Jovidon Bobojonov for two years in a general regime labour camp for refusing compulsory military service on grounds of conscience. He has already appealed against his conviction. Although he has been held since October 2019, Bobojonov's sentence is deemed to run from the date of his arrest in January 2020. Bobojonov faced between two and five years in prison (see below). Guards brought Bobojonov to court in handcuffs from Dushanbe's Investigation Prison, where he has been held since his transfer from a military unit in January (see below). While in the military unit between October 2019 and January 2020, military personnel tortured Bobojonov with beatings as they tried to pressure him to take the military oath and put on military uniform. Forum 18 was unable to find out if the military personnel who tortured Bobojonov have been arrested and brought to justice (see below). The last conscientious objector known to have been convicted and imprisoned was fellow Jehovah's Witness Daniil Islamov, jailed for six months in 2017 (see below). Jehovah's Witnesses are conscientious objectors to military service and their beliefs do not allow them to undertake any kind of activity supporting any country's military. But they are willing to undertake an alternative, totally civilian form of service, as is the right of all conscientious objectors to military service under international human rights law http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2559

Mike S. Carrero Acosta y Mileydee L. Villafañe juraron "amor eterno" frente a 200 amigos y familiares que se conectaron a través del sistema de videoconferencia Zoom. Su boda estaba pautada para celebrarse el 21 de marzo, pero la orden de distanciamiento social provocó la cancelación de la ceremonia presencial y su luna de miel. A pesar de esto, la pareja no tuvo que posponer su sueño y contrajo nupcias en una ceremonia religiosa virtual. La ceremonia estuvo a cargo de Juan Francisco de Jesús, anciano de la congregación Testigos de Jehová del Bo. Piñales de Añasco. Además, los jóvenes de 24 y 25 años, respectivamente, se casaron por lo civil ayer miércoles, ante un abogado notario y a solas en su residencia para respetar las guías de distanciamiento social. Estuvieron presentes en la ceremonia civil sólo los integrantes de su unidad familiar, explicaron. Carrero Acosta es natural de Añasco y trabaja en un negoció familiar, mientras Villafañe es natural de Jayuya y se desempeña como asistente de farmacia. Leer más: https://www.noticel.com/vida/20200402/una-boda-virtual-en-tiempos-de-covid-19/

On March 20, 2020, the investigator D. Melnikov opened another criminal case under Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against local resident Tatyana Kulakova. Criminal investigations are under way against her husband and eldest son, Dmitriy. The youngest of the Kulakov family, Yevgeniy, for reasons of conscience, asks to replace his military service with alternative civilian service (ACS). However, the authorized bodies unreasonably deny his request, threatening criminal prosecution for “evading military service.” https://www.jw-russia.org/en/news/2020/04/4.html

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67-year-old Yuriy Krutyakov was arrested on March 4, 2020, on suspicion of extremism. Now he is placed in the Moscow pre-trial Detention Center No. 4, a special unit for particularly dangerous criminals. Yuriy suffers from a number of serious diseases, having undergone several operations. Meanwhile, Yuriy was deprived of the Bible. His copy of the Holy Scriptures was withdrawn for verification; until now, the book has not been returned. https://jw-russia.org/en/news/2020/03/9.html

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Los policías llegaron al lugar y dentro de un inmueble encontraron sin vida a José Contreras D., de 55 años de edad, así como J. Jesús E., G., de 34 años de edad y a su hijo Samuel E., V., de 6 años de edad, los cuales presentaban diversos impactos de bala en su cuerpo. La zona fue resguardada y más tarde llegó personal de la Unidad Especializada en la Escena del Crimen (UECS), quienes embalaron 41 casquillos percutidos calibre 7.62x39 y seis casquillos percutidos calibre 45 milímetros. Las víctimas se encontraban realizando un oficio religioso cuando, sin mediar palabras, irrumpieron los delincuentes y abrieron fuego en su contra; hasta el momento se desconoce el probable móvil del múltiple crimen Leer más: https://www.lavozdemichoacan.com.mx/seguridad/homicidio/irrumpen-en-domicilio-y-asesinan-a-tres-testigos-de-jehova-en-michoacan/

Marie has built her career on the foundation of truth-telling songs like that one, "Go Home." She's the rare jazz vocalist who has put songwriting at the very heart of her enterprise, addressing the human condition through an unvarnished personal lens. In this episode of Jazz Night in America, we'll get to know the person behind that personality: how Marie came up in Virginia, telling stories and making up songs; how she left the Jehovah's Witnesses and her first marriage in search of freedom; how she found her true voice as an artist of political and moral conscience. Vocalist and songwriter René Marie. Lawrence Sumulong https://www.wpr.org/jazz-vocalist-rene-marie-determined-craft-songs-moral-conscience

A Russian court has overturned the convictions of six Jehovah’s Witnesses accused of extremism, marking the first instance of the group's worshippers having their verdicts overturned in Russia, the group announced Wednesday. The court in Penza, some 550 kilometers southeast of Moscow, handed five adherents suspended two-year prison sentences in December. The sixth worshipper, Vladimir Alushkin, was jailed for six years after an investigation had shown that he had continued to run the local Jehovah’s Witnesses branch despite the group being outlawed in Russia. Read more: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/03/26/first-conviction-of-jehovahs-witnesses-overturned-in-russia-a69762 Vladimir Alushkin, a Jehovah's Witnesses member who in December was jailed for six years, has been released after his conviction on extremism charges was overturned.