Deryk Terril poses for a photograph in downtown Spokane on Sept. 10. Terril’s lawsuit against the Jehovah’s Witnesses joins a growing mountain of cases alleging the church conceals sexual abuse.

Martin Haugh, a former Jehovah's Witnesses elder and father of a sexual abuse victim, holds a subpoena, dated in 2019, ordering him to testify in front of a Pennsylvania grand jury, shown on Wednesday ...

Multiple people connected to Jehovah's Witnesses were recently accused of child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania. Some defendants allegedly used their positions to prey upon victims.

According to the suit, the plaintiff met the alleged perpetrator of the abuse — active in the Jehovah’s Witnesses church, like her — in the summer of 2007, when he was 18 and she was 14.

Last month was the first time Jehovah's Witnesses were encouraged to hold in-person meetings in their congregations since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the U.S., public ministry had been ...

Jehovah’s Witnesses hope to keep expanding its ministering programs to all the states with congregations. “We can consider it a community service,” Hendriks said, “to be able to do this ...

The Jehovah's Witnesses, known for their door-to-door preaching, had the largest growth of any single denomination. They believe secular society is corrupt, and that Armageddon is imminent.