The Brooklyn headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses has published a deceptive and misleading press release on their public relations website in response to the broadcast of NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams expose of the Watchtower Society’s secret, multi-million dollar payout to victims of child abuse.

Jehovah's Witnesses PBS Knocking

Jehovah's Witnesses said they are concerned for the family of a young English mother who died after giving birth to twins because her faith prevented her from accepting a blood transfusion.

Ex-Soviet Tajikistan outlawed the Jehovah's Witnesses religious organisation on Monday, saying its missionary activities violated the laws of the predominantly Muslim Central Asian state.

It is estimated that over 130 Jehovah's Witness children die each year due to the religion's application of religious doctrine to health care.