Archive
Every JW Files report, newest first — 49 in all.
2026
- June 26, 2026LegalGerman high court revives Jehovah's Witnesses' claim to a Nazi-persecution archive, orders new hearing
- June 11, 2026LegalEuropean Court finds Italy discriminated against Jehovah's Witnesses over unratified funding accord
- June 9, 2026LegalEuropean rights court finds Bulgarian town’s door-to-door preaching ban breached religious freedom
- April 29, 2026LegalNorway's Supreme Court ended a years-long fight over Jehovah's Witnesses' funding and shunning
- April 16, 2026LegalMadrid court rules that calling Jehovah's Witnesses a "destructive sect" is protected speech
- March 20, 2026DoctrineWatchtower allows Jehovah's Witnesses to store and reinfuse their own blood
- February 20, 2026MediaHBO Max Releases Spanish Docuseries 'Surviving the Jehovah's Witnesses'
- February 13, 2026LegalGeorgia Lawsuit Accuses Jehovah's Witnesses Leadership of Failing to Stop Bible-Study Teacher's Abuse of a Boy
2025
- November 12, 2025LegalBrazilian woman's $100M federal suit names Watchtower and the Governing Body over alleged childhood abuse
- October 24, 2025LegalSweden Denies Jehovah's Witnesses State Subsidies, Then a Court Orders Them Restored
- August 22, 2025DoctrineGoverning Body Reframes Higher Education as a Personal Decision
- January 8, 2025LegalPennsylvania woman sues Fort Kent Jehovah's Witnesses over alleged 1980s childhood abuse
2024
- September 17, 2024LegalEuropean Court Rules Spain Violated Jehovah's Witness's Rights Over Forced Blood Transfusions
- August 1, 2024DoctrineJehovah's Witnesses stopped saying "disfellowshipped." What actually changed?
- March 13, 2024MediaVideoland Documentary "Jehovah: Van God Los" Examines Life Inside the Dutch Jehovah's Witnesses
2023
- December 19, 2023LegalBelgium's Highest Court Upholds Jehovah's Witnesses' Acquittal Over Shunning
- December 15, 2023DoctrineJehovah's Witnesses Make Beards a Personal Decision in December 2023 Governing Body Update
- July 18, 2023LegalA Hawaii Judge Awarded $40 Million Against a Former Jehovah's Witnesses Elder. It Was Not a Verdict Against the Organization.
- May 9, 2023LegalEuropean Court finds no rights violation in Finland's consent rule for Witnesses' door-to-door notes
- March 9, 2023MediaSix killed in a 2023 Hamburg Kingdom Hall attack — and the warning police couldn't act on
- February 22, 2023LeadershipRemoved and Deleted: What Happened to Anthony Morris III in 2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
- February 5, 2019LeadershipThe Jehovah's Witnesses' secret elders' manual leaked online in 2019
2018
- September 26, 2018LegalA Montana jury ordered the Watchtower to pay $35 million for not reporting abuse. The state's top court erased it.
- June 28, 2018LegalA year after the ban, Russia was raiding Jehovah's Witnesses nationwide
- May 31, 2018LegalCanada's Supreme Court ruled that no court can review a Jehovah's Witnesses expulsion
- January 9, 2018LeadershipA Massachusetts congregation's confidential abuse files were leaked online in 2018
2017
- December 7, 2017FinanceRussia moved to seize the Jehovah's Witnesses' $31 million headquarters
- November 9, 2017LegalA California court fined the Watchtower $4,000 a day for withholding abuse records
- September 15, 2017LegalA Quebec class action over child abuse was filed against the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2017
- August 17, 2017LegalRussia banned the Jehovah's Witnesses' Bible by ruling it "not a Bible"
- July 26, 2017LegalUK regulator found a Jehovah's Witnesses congregation made abuse victims face their abuser
- April 20, 2017LegalRussia declared Jehovah's Witnesses "extremist" in 2017. Here's what the ban did.
2016
- March 15, 2016LegalA UK appeals court let the Watch Tower safeguarding inquiry stand in 2016
- March 2, 2016LegalRussia warned the Jehovah's Witnesses of liquidation a year before the ban
2015
- August 14, 2015LeadershipA Jehovah's Witnesses leader testified under oath in 2015. Here is what he said.
- August 14, 2015LegalAustralia's Royal Commission and the Watchtower: what Case Study 29 found
- July 27, 2015LegalWhen Australia put the Jehovah's Witnesses' abuse record on the public record
- July 21, 2015LegalRussia blocked the Jehovah's Witnesses' website as "extremist" in 2015
- April 13, 2015LegalCalifornia's top appeals court threw out the punitive damages in the Conti abuse case
2014
- December 12, 2014LegalA UK court refused to stop the Watch Tower inquiry — but on procedure, not the merits
- November 8, 2014MediaA Governing Body member's "tight pants" talk drew wide criticism in 2014
- October 29, 2014LegalA San Diego court hit the Watchtower with a $13.5 million judgment — over records it would not produce
- May 27, 2014LegalUK regulator opens a safeguarding inquiry into the Jehovah's Witnesses' British charity
2012
- October 1, 2012LeadershipA 2012 letter told elders to call lawyers first, and left out the police
2011
- July 15, 2011DoctrineA 2011 Watchtower Called Apostates 'Mentally Diseased'