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| 2024 | Jehovah's Witnesses modified their shunning policy in Norway, allowing members to offer 'simple greetings' to shunned individuals who are not considered apostates, following the loss of state funding due to psychological violence concerns. |
| August 2024 |
Wieambilla shootings
The coronial inquest concluded after sixteen days of hearings, investigating the details of the Wieambilla shootings.
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| July 2024 |
Wieambilla shootings
A coronial inquest into the Wieambilla shootings commenced, presided over by State Coroner Terry Ryan.
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| January 2024 |
Wieambilla shootings
Prosecutors added additional charges against Donald Day Jr., including illegal possession of a firearm and threatening FBI agents at the time of his arrest.
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| 2023 | Norway fully deregistered Jehovah's Witnesses as a religious community due to their shunning practice, resulting in the loss of 1.3 million euros in annual state subsidies and the right to perform civil marriages. |
| December 2023 |
Wieambilla shootings
U.S. citizen Donald Day Jr., described as a conspiracy theorist, was arrested in Arizona in connection with the Wieambilla shootings. He is alleged to have sent 'Christian end-of-days' ideological messages to the Trains between May 2021 and December 2022.
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| December 2023 |
Wieambilla shootings
At a National Cabinet meeting, state and territory Premiers and Chief Ministers, along with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, committed to implementing a National Firearms Register in direct response to the Wieambilla shootings tragedy.
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| November 2023 | Modified their field service reporting requirements, changing from mandatory monthly hour submissions for all active members to a more flexible reporting system. |
| March 9 2023 | A mass shooting in Hamburg, Germany targeted Jehovah's Witnesses, resulting in six fatalities. Police had been warned about the shooter beforehand but failed to intervene. |
| February 2023 |
Wieambilla shootings
Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Tracy Linford officially declared the Wieambilla shootings an act of terrorism, characterizing it as a religiously motivated attack by perpetrators who subscribed to a Christian fundamentalist belief system called premillennialism.
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| 2022 | Jehovah's Witnesses were denied state subsidies in Oslo and Viken, Norway, despite previously qualifying for over thirty years. |
| December 23 2022 |
Wieambilla shootings
Funeral held for Alan Dare.
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| December 21 2022 |
Wieambilla shootings
Memorial service held at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre for Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, where they were posthumously awarded the National Police Service Medal, National Medal, Queensland Police Service Medal, and Queensland Police Valour Medal.
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| December 18 2022 |
Wieambilla shootings
Two men were charged by police with unlawful trespass and stealing by looting on the Trains' property following the Wieambilla shootings.
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| December 12 2022 |
Wieambilla shootings
Three police officers and a civilian were killed during a terrorist attack at a rural property in Wieambilla, Queensland. The attackers - brothers Gareth and Nathaniel Train, and Gareth's wife Stacey Train - were identified as religious extremists and subsequently shot and killed by Queensland Police. This incident was labeled as Australia's first fundamentalist Christian terrorist attack.
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| December 12 2022 |
Wieambilla shootings
Constable Rachel McCrow was shot in the back and legs after attempting to call for help on her police radio. At 4:46 p.m., Gareth Train fatally shot McCrow at close range after she pleaded for her life.
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| December 12 2022 |
Wieambilla shootings
At 7:00 p.m., Gareth Train began shooting intermittently at a police helicopter for 15 minutes.
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| December 12 2022 |
Wieambilla shootings
At approximately 5:30 p.m., neighbour Alan Dare was fatally shot in the back while investigating fires on the Trains' property. He was recording a video on his mobile phone at the time of his death.
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| 2021 |
Wieambilla shootings
Nathaniel Train resigned from his teaching positions at Walgett Community College Primary School and Yorkeys Knob State School.
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| 2021 | 4,091 Jehovah's Witnesses members served as missionaries. |
| 2021 | Jehovah's Witnesses in Australia agreed to join the national redress scheme for sexual assault survivors to maintain their charitable status. |
| December 2021 |
Wieambilla shootings
Nathaniel Train allegedly breached state border and was involved in a weapons dumping incident, which later became a subject of a police warrant.
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| December 4 2021 |
Wieambilla shootings
Nathaniel Train's estranged second wife lodged a missing person report about him.
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| October 9 2021 |
Wieambilla shootings
Nathaniel Train was reported to have stopped making contact, triggering a missing person investigation.
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| June 2021 |
Wieambilla shootings
Rachel McCrow was sworn in as a police officer.
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| 2020 |
Wieambilla shootings
Gareth Train resigned from his teaching position.
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| March 2020 |
Wieambilla shootings
Matthew Arnold was sworn in as a police officer.
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| 2018 | South Korea enacted a religious exemption for military service, ending a long-standing period where Jehovah's Witnesses were systematically imprisoned for refusing mandatory military service due to their religious beliefs. |
| 2017 | The Charity Commission for England and Wales initiated an inquiry into Jehovah's Witnesses' management of child sexual abuse allegations in the United Kingdom. |
| 2016 | Jehovah's Witnesses had the lowest average household income among surveyed religious groups in the United States, with approximately half of Witness households earning less than $30,000 per year. |
| 2015 | The Australian Royal Commission investigated the Jehovah's Witnesses organization's handling of child sexual abuse cases, finding no clear evidence of systematic reporting to police for 1,006 alleged perpetrators since 1950. |
| 2012 | Jehovah's Witnesses introduced literature carts as a new method of public evangelism, where members wait in public spaces for people to approach them. |
| 2010 | The Watchtower and Awake! magazines were identified as the world's most widely distributed publications at this time. |
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