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@The Librariannow that autopsy revealed that the cause of his death was natural: brain aneurysm, not suicide, do you think that someone should change the title of this topic?

Puerto Rico: “Queremos probar los hostigamientos que recibió Federico en vida”, expresó su cuñado Luego de realizada la autopsia al cuerpo del joven, se determinó que la causa de su deceso habría sido natural; una hemorragia cerebral que le provocó una muerte súbita. Familiares del fallecido habían manifestado que Federico padecía problemas de presión, lo cual abona la teoría de que su fallecimiento fue a causa de un ACV o aneurisma cerebral. No obstante los resultados del informe y haciendo hincapié el hostigamiento que sufría, familiares siguen reclamando justicia por la muerte del joven y asimismo apuntando contra el grupo religioso. A través de un posteo en la red social Facebook, su cuñado Jorge León manifestó: “Ahora precisamos que quienes tengan audios o mensajes de Federico, me los puedan reenviar para intentar probar los hostigamientos y persecuciones que recibió en vida de sus hermanos, padres y la secta testigos de Jehová. Justicia por Federico”. Sobre ello, Misiones Online consultó con León y éste informó que hasta el momento y luego de lo sucedido, se han podido reunir y conversar con otras personas que pasaron por experiencias similares pero que solamente les pudieron relatar sus vivencias y que, además, “temen ser identificados”. https://misionesonline.net/2021/02/03/puerto-rico-hostigamientos/

Five conscientious objectors to compulsory military service who had already served sentences were jailed again in trials on 18 and 19 January. Courts gave all five two-year terms, four of them in strict-regime labour camp, bringing to six the number jailed so far in 2021. All had offered to perform an alternative civilian service, but Turkmenistan does not offer this. Nine of the 14 known jailed conscientious objectors – all of them Jehovah's Witnesses – are serving second sentences. In a series of trials on 18 and 19 January, courts have jailed five more conscientious objectors, all of them Jehovah's Witnesses. As the five young men had previously served sentences for refusing compulsory service on grounds of conscience, four of the five were given two-year terms in strict regime labour camp. All had offered to perform an alternative civilian service, but Turkmenistan does not offer this. Turkmenistan has rejected repeated United Nations calls to introduce such a service. Danev District Court in Turkmenistan's eastern Lebap Region sentenced Azamatjan Narkulyev, Maksat Jumadurdiyev and Artur Yangibayev on 18 January. Danev District Court and Gurbansoltan eje District Court in the northern Dashoguz Region sentenced Veniamin Genjiyev and Ikhlosbek Rozmetov on 19 January. Three of these are aged 20, the other two are 23 (see below). Danev District Court jailed four of the five conscientious objectors, a court official told Forum 18 on 26 January. All four have already lodged appeals. Forum 18 was unable to speak to the Judges as they was not in the building, the court official added (see below). https://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2632

The Jehovah’s Witnesses, the organization that publishes Bible and Bible-based materials in over 1,000 languages, made history in translation when it released the first complete sign language Bible in the world. The app that it designed — the JW Sign Language — is downloadable for free, according to Dean Jacek, national spokesperson of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The app also contains portions of the Bible in 90 other sign language translations, he added. Described by several members of the deaf community as the “best gift during the pandemic,” the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures contains videos of all the 66 books in American Sign Language (ASL). Read more: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1388913/jehovahs-witnesses-release-worlds-1st-complete-sign-language-bible#ixzz6kuOxkSrX Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook

Zamora, 27 ene (EFE).- La organización de Testigos de Jehová ha recordado este miércoles a las más de 2.000 personas de este grupo religioso que se calcula que murieron en los campos de concentración con motivo de la celebración del Día Internacional de Conmemoración en Memoria de la Víctimas del Holocausto. Al cumplirse este miércoles 76 años de la liberación del campo de Auschwitz, este colectivo ha subrayado en un comunicado que junto a sus miembros hubo millones de víctimas del nazismo que fueron perseguidos. Ha explicado además que aunque el número de Testigos de Jehová fallecidos parezca "insignificante" y se pueda "diluir entre el inmenso torrente de víctimas" del nazismo, la persecución que sufrieron sus miembros fue proporcionalmente muy importante. https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20210127/6201825/testigos-jehova-recuerdan-victimas-dia-holocausto.html

Un joven de 28 años apareció sin vida en su departamento de Puerto Rico y todo apunta a que se trató de un suicidio. Familiares de la víctima aseguran que el muchacho padecía una persecución por parte de Testigos de Jehová, culto del cual participaba pero que luego decidió apartarse. https://misionesonline.net/2021/01/21/un-joven-de-puerto-rico-se-quito-la-vida-y-familiares-responsabilizan-a-una-iglesia-por-discriminarlo-y-hostigarlo/

Los testigo de Jehová en México ascienden a casi un millón, ante la pandemia adaptan su misión evangelizadora para evitar contagios. Son reconocidos por su labor permanente de puerta en puerta en los domicilios para predicar la Biblia, no obstente, cambiaron su dinámica evangelizadora y ahora realizan llamadas telefónicas al azar a través de un call center y reparten cartas “con mensajes de aliento” por debajo de las puertas. También suspendieron las congregaciones, donde se reunían más de 150 personas, mínimo dos veces por semana; ahora son a través de Zoom. En palabras de Josué Zañudo, representante de la Sección de Información de la Congregación Cristiana de los Testigos de Jehová en México: “Nuestra predicación, que antes hacíamos en los domicilios, ahora la ejercemos mediante llamadas telefónicas y con cartas a través de un mensaje breve, pero a la vez animador, para entregar a nuestros vecinos y así no hay ningún riesgo (…) Hemos sentido que, sobre todo en estos tiempos de pandemia, la gente sí agradece las llamadas, las cartas; algunos han perdido seres queridos y las palabras de la Biblia les han caído muy reconfortantes”. https://www.paradavisual.com/mexico-call-center-de-testigos-de-jehova/

onscientious objectors increasingly face second prosecutions for continuing to refuse compulsory military service. On 11 January, a court in Lebap Region sentenced 20-year-old Jehovah's Witness Ruslan Artykmuradov to two years in a strict regime labour camp, his second jailing on the same charges. On 30 December 2020, Danev District Prosecutor's Office informed four other Jehovah's Witnesses they face second prosecutions. All had offered to do an alternative, civilian service. On 11 January, four weeks after his arrest, a court in Turkmenistan's eastern Lebap Region sentenced 20-year-old Jehovah's Witness conscientious objector Ruslan Artykmuradov to two years in a strict regime labour camp. He had told the Military Conscription Office that he was prepared to do an alternative, civilian service, but Turkmenistan does not offer this. Turkmenistan has rejected repeated United Nations calls to introduce such a service. Judge Chemen Berdyeva of Sayat District Court handed down the harsher sentence as this is the second time the court has sentenced Artykmuradov to a jail term for refusing compulsory military service on grounds of conscience. He served a one-year ordinary regime jail term from August 2018 to August 2019 (see below). Also in Lebap Region, Danev District Prosecutor's Office informed four other Jehovah's Witnesses on 30 December 2020 that criminal cases had been opened against them for refusing compulsory military service on grounds of conscience. All four had already been convicted and served sentences on the same charges. No dates have yet been set for any trials (see below). Read full article: https://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2630

Arrested in December 2020, 20-year-old Jehovah's Witness conscientious objector Ruslan Artykmuradov is awaiting trial in Turkmenabat's Pre-Trial Detention Prison for refusing compulsory military service. He offered to do an alternative civilian service, but Turkmenistan does not offer this, despite repeated United Nations calls. Artykmuradov has already served a one-year jail term on the same charges. If convicted, he will become the 25th conscientious objector known to have been jailed since 2018. Police arrested 20-year-old Jehovah's Witness conscientious objector to military service Ruslan Artykmuradov on 15 December 2020. They transferred him on 18 December to the Pre-Trial Detention Prison in Turkmenabat in the eastern Lebap Region, where he remains awaiting trial for refusing compulsory military service. No trial date has yet been set. He has already served a one-year jail term on the same charges. Prosecutors opened the second criminal case against Artykmuradov in December 2020 after the Military Conscription Office rejected his request to do an alternative civilian service (which does not exist in Turkmenistan). Turkmenistan has rejected repeated United Nations calls to introduce such a service (see below). If convicted, Artykmuradov would become the 25th conscientious objector to military service known to have been convicted and jailed since January 2018. All of them are Jehovah's Witnesses (see below). If he is convicted at his expected trial, Artykmuradov would become the fifth conscientious objector (all of them Jehovah's Witnesses) to be convicted twice of the same "crime" since jailings of conscientious objectors resumed in 2018. Such second convictions may be increasing (see below). Jehovah's Witnesses are conscientious objectors to military service and do not 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.. Including Bahtiyar Amirjanovich Atahanov (born 17 June 2000), who has been serving a jail term since July 2019, eight Jehovah's Witness conscientious objectors are serving jail terms of between one and four years. All eight are imprisoned in Seydi Labour Camp in the eastern Lebap Region. Three of them are serving second sentences (see full list below). Turkmenistan has ignored repeated international calls, for example by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, to introduce a genuine civilian alternative to compulsory military service, to stop prosecuting and punishing conscientious objectors, and to compensate those it has punished. Read more: https://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2628

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Adolfo “Shabba Doo” Quiñones, the dancer-actor who rose to fame starring in “Breakin'” and its sequel “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo,” died Wednesday. He was 65. No cause of death has been announced. Just a day before he was discovered unconscious, Quiñones had posted a photo of himself smiling and giving the peace sign in bed, writing, “Good news y’all! I’m feeling all better, just a wee bit sluggish from my cold, but the good news is I’m Covid 19 negative! Woo hoo!” Besides appearing in the “Breakin'” films, both in 1984, he had a featured role on the big screen in “Lambada” in 1990. Prior to taking to the movies, Quiñones was already a part of pop culture history for choreographing and appearing in Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long” video. Chambers, aka “Boogaloo Shrimp” in the “Breakin'” films, told Variety that he and Quiñones had been estranged for a long time but reconciled over the last three years, due to their shared spirituality as Jehovah’s Witnesses. But, he says, they bonded over both becoming Bible students as Jehovah’s Witnesses. “He had actually contacted me out of nowhere,” Chambers said. “We hadn’t talked… He said, ‘Michael, I’m gonna go to a Bible convention in Long Beach and I’d love to sit with you and talk and move on.’ So when he came to my house and we talked, I was like, ‘Wow, he’s different.’ Jesus forgave sinners, so who am I? I was willing to accept his peace offering and forgive. Three years ago we came into our spirituality and forgiveness and became better people. We both put water under the bridge and were talking as men.” Read full article: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/adolfo-shabba-doo-quinones-dead-breakin-dancer-actor-1234876798/

Armando Manzanero: muere el cantautor mexicano por covid-19 El cantautor mexicano Armando Manzanero falleció este lunes a los 85 años, pocos días después de haber sido hospitalizado en Ciudad de México tras contraer coronavirus. Manzanero deja tras de sí un legado inolvidable en la historia de la música en español, un sinfín de discos vendidos e innumerables reconocimientos, como el Premio Grammy honorífico en 2014. El autor de clásicos de la balada romántica latinoamericana, como "Somos novios", "Voy a apagar la luz", "Contigo aprendí", "Esta tarde vi llover" y "No", fue hospitalizado la semana pasada en Ciudad de México tras dar positivo en covid-19 e intubado unos días después. "Con mucho dolor lamento la muerte del maestro Armando Manzanero, uno de los más grandes compositores de México, sus canciones son parte definitiva de la educación sentimental de los mexicanos", escribió en Twitter la secretaria de Cultura de México, Alejandra Frausto. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-55468664

Contigo aprendí que existen nuevas y mejores emociones Contigo aprendí a conocer un mundo nuevo de ilusiones Aprendí que la semana tiene más de siete días a hacer mayores mis contadas alegrías y a ser dichoso yo contigo lo aprendí. Contigo aprendí a ver la luz del otro lado de la luna Contigo aprendí que tu presencia no la cambio por ninguna Aprendí que puede un beso ser más dulce y más profundo que puedo irme mañana mismo de este mundo Las cosas buenas ya contigo las viví y contigo aprendí que yo nací el día que te conocí.

Publisher BMG has plunged itself into a copyright lawsuit with elements that are so bizarre it's hard to fathom what the company was thinking of. According to the complaint, BMG illegally used a song owned by religious group Watchtower in a for-profit Christmas album, featuring songs from other faiths, which are set to be sung in cathedrals. Needless to say, Jehovah's Witnesses are outraged. Music publisher BMG is best known on these pages for its aggressive copyright infringement action against ISP Cox Communications in the United States. After filing a lawsuit accusing the ISP of doing little to prevent its customers from pirating music time and again, the case went through a tortuous process that eventually led to a “substantial settlement.” Given the nature of its business and a history of picking over the intricacies of copyright law, it was a surprise to see BMG named as a defendant in a US copyright lawsuit this week. Unusually, however, it’s not simply the copyright aspect of this case that makes it so unusual and interesting. Singer Aled Jones Releases Album in November Last month, Welsh singer Aled Jones, who shot to fame as a youngster in the 1980s, teamed up with BMG to release a new album titled ‘Blessings’. The album aims to be religiously inclusive by bundling songs associated with Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, and Quakers. But trying to appeal to everyone can have its pitfalls, especially where religion is concerned. The problem lies in a song on the album called “Listen, Obey and Be Blessed”, a work owned by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group. The appearance of this song on a commercial album immediately raised alarm bells among the religion’s followers who, through their teachings and knowledge of their faith, knew this track shouldn’t have been used in this manner. Read more: https://torrentfreak.com/jehovahs-witnesses-file-copyright-lawsuit-in-response-to-blundering-christmas-album-201225/

The rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus has been blamed for the introduction of strict tier four mixing rules for millions of people, harsher restrictions on mixing at Christmas in England, Scotland and Wales, and other countries placing the UK on a travel ban. So how has it gone from being non-existent to the most common form of the virus in parts of England in a matter of months? The government's advisers on new infections have "moderate" confidence that it is more able to transmit than other variants. All the work is at an early stage, contains huge uncertainties and a long list of unanswered questions. As I've written before, viruses mutate all the time and it's vital to keep a laser focus on whether the virus' behaviour is changing. Why is this variant causing concern? Three things are coming together that mean it is attracting attention: It is rapidly replacing other versions of the virus It has mutations that affect part of the virus likely to be important Some of those mutations have already been shown in the lab to increase the ability of the virus to infect cells All of these come together to build a case for a virus that can spread more easily. However, we do not have absolute certainty. New strains can become more common simply by being in the right place at the right time - such as London, which had only tier two restrictions until recently. But already the justification for tier four restrictions is in part to reduce the spread of the variant. "Laboratory experiments are required, but do you want to wait weeks or months [to see the results and take action to limit the spread]? Probably not in these circumstances," Prof Nick Loman, from the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium, told me. Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55388846

Desestima el recurso de los integrantes de este colectivo religioso contra una resolución de la Agencia Española de Protección de Datos hace dos años tras una denuncia en Cantabria La Audiencia Nacional ha ratificado una multa de 10.000 euros impuesta por la Agencia Española de Protección de Datos a Testigos Cristianos de Jehová, por recoger y usar sin permiso datos de facultativos que estarían dispuestos a colaborar con las creencias de esta confesión religiosa respecto a la práctica de cirugías sin transfusiones en los hospitales. Así lo ha determinado la Sala de lo Contencioso de la AN en una sentencia que desestima el recurso de Testigos de Jehová contra la resolución de la APD que hace dos años impuso la sanción a raíz de una denuncia de un miembro de Cantabria de los Comités de Enlace con los Hospitales, que la institución tiene en cada provincia. En concreto, durante una inspección este integrante manifestó que desde hace más de veinte años se recogían datos de facultativos dispuestos a colaborar con las creencias de los Testigos, datos que pasaron a formar parte de una base de datos en 2014 y se comunicaban a la sede nacional los de los médicos dispuestos a colaborar. Así, en el momento de la inspección, este hombre disponía de una base de datos en su ordenador con dos carpetas, denominadas 'colaboradores' y 'consultores'. La primera estaba formada por datos de médicos dispuestos a colaborar con las creencias de Testigos de Jehová, clasificados por especialidades. Seleccionando el nombre de uno, se obtenía un documento denominado 'informe sobre el médico colaborador', para uso exclusivo del Comité de Enlace con los Hospitales con diferentes datos del especialista y cuestiones relacionadas con transfusiones de sangre, tratamientos que precisan donaciones y alternativas, tanto en procedimientos programados como en emergencias. En la segunda carpeta, llamada 'consultores', se informa que son facultativos que además de estar dispuestos a colaborar con Testigos de Jehová, prestan servicio de consultoría sobre tipos de orientaciones sin realizar transfusiones de sangre a médicos de otros hospitales de toda España. Leer más: https://www.eldiario.es/cantabria/ultimas-noticias/confirman-multa-testigos-jehova-datos-medicos-permiso-denuncia-cantabria_1_6501817.html

Doña Gabina murió mientras se dirigía al Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, en busca de una cama de hospital tras personar síntomas graves de covid-19. Luego de esperar, sin éxito, una cama con ventilador en la Unidad de Infectología del Hospital Centro Médico Nacional La Raza, del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), doña Gabina falleció por covid-19 en el trayecto mientras se dirigía al Autódromo Hermano Rodríguez. “Ayer mismo cuando regresamos ya no aguanto mi mamá, se sentía muy mal y falleció en el camino. En el camino falleció”, comentó Laura, hija de doña Gabina, quien procreó y educó a 8 hijos. El cuerpo de doña Gabina se encuentra resguardado en una funeraria y será cremada en una horas. Laura recuerda que tuvo covid. “Acabo de salir, me dieron de alta hace tres días, estuve muy enferma. Mi hermano está encerrado (en casa) porque tiene covid junto con su familia. Nosotros nos infectamos varios”. https://www.milenio.com/politica/comunidad/mujer-muere-covid-19-buscaba-cama-hospital

Familiares y amigos despiden con dolor y tristeza al exboxeador Francisco San José y a Áurea Marbán en el cementerio toresano Familiares y amigos reciben a los dos fallecidos en la entrada del cementerio de Toro. | M. J. C. “Siempre pensé que al funeral de mi padre acudiría mucha gente y es el pesar que me queda”. Con estas palabras, uno de los hijos del ex boxeador, Francisco San José y de Áurea Marbán, preguntó ayer a los trabajadores municipales cuántas personas podrían asistir al sepelio de sus padres, fallecidos el pasado domingo en el incendio que calcinó su vivienda. Las restricciones impuestas por el COVID restaron afluencia a la inhumación, aunque un nutrido grupo de familiares y amigos se personó en el cementerio para dar el último adiós a dos personas muy queridas por su bondad, su simpatía y su carácter afable. Pasaban pocos minutos de las 17.00 horas, cuando dos vehículos fúnebres estacionaron junto al acceso principal del cementerio en el que aguardan la llegada de los féretros los familiares y amigos de la pareja que, desconsolados, lamentaban las trágicas circunstancias en las que Francisco y Áurea perdieron la vida. https://www.laopiniondezamora.es/toro/2020/12/15/toro-da-ultimo-adios-vecinos-26321200.html

Grab your metal detector! For several months gold and silver jewelry, ornaments, and golden nuggets have started washing up on the shore of a small Venezuelan fishing village that had been devastated by the country’s economic crisis and COVID-19. Yolman Lares was the first to find treasure on the beach in Guaca in September when he found a gold medallion with an image of the Virgin Mary. “I began to shake, I cried from joy,” Lares, 25, told The New York Times. “It was the first time something special has happened to me.” Read more: https://nypost.com/2020/12/12/mysterious-gold-jewelry-washes-up-on-venezuelan-beach/

Los 28 miembros de grupo llevaban en prisión hasta 26 años Eritrea liberó el fin de semana a 28 miembros de los Testigos de Jehová que llevaban en prisión entre cinco y 26 años sin haber sido juzgados, según informó el grupo religioso, si bien las autoridades eritreas no confirmaron oficialmente la ex carcelación. De acuerdo con el comunicado publicado por los Testigos de Jehová, la liberación se produjo el viernes pasado y aún hay 24 miembros del grupo que siguen encarcelados, mientras que otros siete fallecieron en prisión o poco después de ser liberados. “Varios de los detenidos son hombres objetores de conciencia del servicio militar”, explicó la organización. “La mayoría, incluidas mujeres y ancianos, están encarcelados por actividad religiosa o por razones no reveladas", añadió. Leer más: https://www.lajornadamaya.mx/internacional/33228/index.html

The release of 28 Witnesses follows the freeing of 20 Pentecostal and evangelical Christians who had been imprisoned for their faith. NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — In Eritrea, members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses group who had been serving long prison sentences were set free on Friday (Dec. 4), a surprising development for the east African country, where freedom of religion or belief is severely suppressed. The denomination announced that two women and 26 men had been freed after spending between five and 26 years each in prison. The group, as well as another 24 Witnesses who are still in prison, had been incarcerated for their faith. “Several of those jailed are male Witnesses who are conscientious objectors to military service. However, the majority — including women and the elderly — are imprisoned for their religious activity or for undisclosed reasons,” said the denomination in a statement. Jehovah’s Witnesses activities are banned or restricted in several countries, including China, Russia, Singapore and many Muslim-majority countries. In the case of Eritrea, the constitution guarantees the right to the freedom of religion or belief — a possible reason why the jailed Witnesses have never been formally charged or sentenced — but this freedom has never been granted in practice. Read more: https://religionnews.com/2020/12/10/jehovahs-witnesses-released-in-eritrea-a-rare-move-toward-religious-toleration/

Michael Jackson tried to DESTROY Thriller video: Heartbroken star hid in room for 3 days MICHAEL JACKSON desperately tried to destroy the Thriller video master tapes before it was released and locked himself in his room for three days without food. Thriller remains the most iconic and influential music video in history. It broke viewing records when it was aired on December 2, 1983, and then smashed sales records when it was released on home video. The climactic zombie dance routine is endlessly imitated and even Jackson's red leather jacket remains instantly recognisable almost forty years later. So why on Earth would the star be so desperate to have it destroyed, especially when the whole thing was his idea in the first place?