Organizational Accomplishments (5 min.): Play the Organizational Accomplishments video for the month of December.
Many have told us that because the news from Jw.org is reliable they value it very much. While much of the information on the internet and on social networks is false, the people of God are a column and support for the truth. As 1 Timothy 3:15 says. But how much work is behind a story, under the supervision of the coordinating committee of the governing body the public information office works very hard to prepare articles for the press section. These brothers work very closely with the public information sections of our branches, in the following report some brothers will tell us what they had to do to write and publish some news from Jw.org.
Italy:From the late 1960s to the late 1990s, The Italian Brothers were sentenced to prison for refusing for refusing to do military service. Thanks to a recent survey, we learned that more than 14,000 siblings are still alive. In total they were sentenced 10,000 years in prison, it occurred to us that their experience could be published in the press section, along with some comments from secular sources. So we immediately notified the public information office. When we received the proposal that they sent us, it seemed like a very good idea, that's when the process starts. We spoke with the public information section about the approach we would take to the news on our website, taking into account not only our public in Italy but our international public.We began to interview the brothers who were in prison for the longest time, it was a very hard time for them, but they told us that their loyalty was a great testimony, especially for the guards, who later ended up becoming Jehovah's Witnesses. This information was verified and the story added and a draft sent to the public information office. After the branches write the draft of the article, there is still a lot of work to be done, we edit the article, choose the photographs, write the epigraphs, the proofreaders check that everything is fine, and finally we send the article to the coordinators committee so that Give it a final review and they approve. Shortly after uploading it and the public information section reported to the Italian media,more than 50 of them covered the news and wrote some articles on the subject. We hoped that bringing this information to light would not only encourage our brothers, but would also have a positive effect on officials and prejudices in other countries, that our brothers still have problems for being neutral.
Rwanda: 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, so many people, especially historians and writers, were very interested in knowing what happened. Among other things, the public information office was in charge of obtaining information from our brothers who had lamented the violence and who survived, and helped others to survive, sometimes risking their own lives. From here we help the public information office in two ways, first we checked that the information was accurate and second we made sure that the article reflected the point of view of those who lived through the genocide. Many brothers have read the article in the press section and have been encouraged to see the faith and courage shown by Jehovah's Witnesses in Rwanda.
Russia: The public information office has the privilege of helping the brothers in Russia, we prepare articles about the persecution in Russia, as soon as the trial begins our team starts up and prepares a note. We have to do a lot of research and soak up the brother or sister's case. They searched his house, put him in preventive detention, we want the brothers to know each story, so that they can pray for that person. Then we collected all the documentation and sent it to the public information section and on the day of the sentence, we published the last minute news to inform the brothers.
How we can make the most of this news, we can tell our students and others what we have read, a lot of this news shows us how much we Jehovah's Witnesses love each other and we can also pray for all the brothers that appear in this news. Let us continue to use the news from the press section, to be informed and encourage each other and stay together and United to Jehovah's organization which is a column and support of the truth.
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