Monday 15 October 2001
01.28 BST
'Hypocrite' Jehovah's
Witnesses abandon secret link
with UN
Stephen Bates, religious
affairs correspondent
The Jehovah's Witnesses have
hurriedly disaffiliated from the
United Nations within days of
a Guardian story in which
members accused the sect of
hypocrisy for supporting an
organisation it has repeatedly
denounced privately.
After the article last Monday,
the organisation's New York
based hierarchy pre-empted a
UN inquiry by agreeing to
dissociate the Witnesses from
an organisation which it holds
to be the scarlet beast named
in the Book of Revelation.
The Watchtower Bible and
Tract Society of New York, as
the sect is formally known,
has 6m members worldwide
and 130,000 in Britain. It had
been secretly affiliated to the
UN as a non-governmental
organisation for 10 years.
Recognised organisations are
supposed to demonstrate that
they share the UN's objectives,
but Witnesses are instead told
by elders to regard it as "a
disgusting thing in the sight
of God and his people" for
allegedly aspiring to world
domination like Babylon the
Great, the beast in Revelation.
The sect does not believe in
participating in government
and initially strove to play
down or deny the evidence of
the UN's website, which lists it
as one of 1,500 affiliated
NGOs.
Those bringing the evidence
to light were accused of
apostacy. Disaffiliated
members become known
informally, like the rest of
humanity, as "bird seed" in
line with biblical prophesy of
the fate of non-believers,
whose corpses will be pecked
bare by crows.
Within hours of the article's
appearance on the Guardian
website on Monday and its
posting on a Jehovah's
Witnesses bulletin board,
more than 14,000 people
across the world had read it.
By yesterday there were 353
official posts and 325
message boards discussing
the article and its revelations,
with Witnesses in the US
demanding to see copies of
the paper.

www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/oct/15/religion.unitednations

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