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martes, 4 de diciembre de 2012

Reisendes Predigerpaar Gast bei Zeugen Jehovas/prensa anuncian visita de viajeros

http://www.badische-zeitung.de/weil-am-rhein/reisendes-predigerpaar-gast-bei-zeugen-jehovas--66168468.html

 

Reisendes Predigerpaar Gast bei Zeugen Jehovas

 

WEIL AM RHEIN (BZ). Bei den Zeugen Jehovas der Gemeinde Weil-Ost ist das reisende Predigerpaar Michael und Ramona Kobsa zu Gast. Am Donnerstag, 29. November, um 19.15 Uhr wird Michael Kobsa die Jugendlichen auffordern: "Baut mit Jehovas Organisation an der Zukunft". Am Samstag um 17.30 Uhr lautet dann sein Thema: "Mit Gott wandeln bringt Segen". Alle Veranstaltungen finden im Königreichssaal, Schutzackerstraße 14, statt. Der Eintritt ist frei.

Nuevo salon en solo 81 dias/

http://www.radioherne.de/Lokalnachrichten.1243+M55eb14251c8.0.html

01.12.2012 14:30

 

Bei den Herner Zeugen Jehovas wird heute der neue Königreichssaal seiner Bestimmung übergeben.

 

Das Gebäude auf dem Heitkamp-Gelände in Wanne entstand in nur 81 Tagen Bauzeit.

 Der Königreichssaal bietet auf einer Fläche von 330 Quadratmetern einen Vortragssaal mit 137 Sitzplätzen, einen zweiten Saal und weitere soziale Räumlichkeiten.

 Das Gebäude wird von den Zeugen Jehovas für religiöse Zusammenkünfte genutzt und ist überwiegend in ehrenamtlicher Arbeit errichtet worden.

 Heute kann der Königreichssaal am Tag der offenen Tür in der Ackerstraße / Ecke Dorstener Straße besichtigt werden.

Nuevo edificio para los Testigos de Jehová/Neubau für die Zeugen Jehovas

 

30.11.2012

http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/nachrichten-aus-herne-und-wanne-eickel/neubau-fuer-die-zeugen-jehovas-id7346858.html

 

Herbert Thomas, portavoz de la Asamblea en el salón Foto: Stefan Arend / WAZ Pool Foto

 

Testigos Herne. Jehová tienen un nuevo hogar en Herne.  El Salón del Reino en el camino de la granja 2 se abre con una jornada de puertas abiertas este sábado.

 

Se inicia a las 10 horas.  "El Artesano pasado directamente de la puerta", dijo el portavoz de los testigos Herner, Herbert Thomas.  A finales de junio de este año, se inició la construcción en el sitio de 2200 metros cuadrados

 

Trabajos de construcción de su propio desempeño

 

"El trabajo fue realizado por voluntarios de nosotros mismos", por lo que también es difícil dar el costo de la obra, dice el 68-años de edad.  El comité de Rin-Ruhr regional edificio de los Testigos de Jehová ha organizado y llevado a cabo.  "El comité de especialistas de la construcción que hacen su trabajo libremente disponibles son." El propietario de la tierra era el contratista Heitkamp Wanner.

 

En 81 días, era el edificio, y también el sitio fue diseñado en este período, de un garaje doble, una zona de aparcamiento pavimentado y paisajismo.  El Salón del Reino es de 330 metros cuadrados.  En la planta baja se encuentra también el salón de actos.  Aquí hay espacio 137 personas.

 

El efecto Hall en su misma sencillez sobria, símbolos como la cruz completamente ausente.  "La espiritualidad nos llega a través de la educación bíblica y las conversaciones durante las reuniones." En la jornada de puertas abiertas habría ningún proselitismo, a Herbert Thomas reitera explícitamente.

 

El pasillo de la comunidad en el camino del Rey en Eickel había convertido con el paso de los años, demasiado pequeño.  "No vamos a venderlo ahora." El domingo, el Salón del Reino y luego entregado a los testigos comunidades Herner.  "Por ello, esperamos que Richard Kelsey de la sede alemana de los Testigos de Jehová."

Herne.  Die Zeugen Jehovas in Herne haben ein neues Zuhause. Der Königreichssaal an der Ackerstraße 2 wird mit einem Tag der offenen Tür am heutigen Samstag eröffnet.

 

Los geht es um 10 Uhr. „Die letzten Handwerker sind gerade aus der Tür heraus“, sagt der Sprecher der Herner Zeugen, Herbert Thomas. Ende Juni dieses Jahres begannen die Bauarbeiten auf dem 2200 Quadratmeter großen Gelände.

 

Bauarbeiten in Eigenleistung

 

„Die Arbeiten wurden ehrenamtlich von uns selber geleistet“, deshalb sei es auch schwierig, die Kosten für die Arbeiten zu nennen, sagt der 68-Jährige. Das regionale Baukomitee Rhein-Ruhr der Zeugen Jehovas hat die Arbeiten organisiert und durchgeführt. „In dem Komitee sind Spezialisten für Bauarbeiten, die ihre Arbeitskraft zur Verfügung stellen.“ Vorbesitzer des Geländes war das Wanner Bauunternehmen Heitkamp.

 

In 81 Tagen stand das Gebäude, und auch das Gelände wurde in dieser Zeit gestaltet, mit einer Doppelgarage, einem gepflasterten Parkplatz und Grünanlagen. Der Königreichssaal ist 330 Quadratmeter groß. Im Erdgeschoss des Gebäudes befindet sich auch der Versammlungssaal. Hier finden 137 Menschen Platz.

 

Der Saal wirkt in seiner Schlichtheit sehr nüchtern, Symbole wie das Kreuz fehlen komplett. „Die Spiritualität kommt bei uns durch die Gespräche und die biblische Belehrung während der Versammlungen.“ Am Tag der offenen Tür fände keine Missionierung statt, darauf weist Herbert Thomas noch einmal ausdrücklich hin.

 

Der Gemeindesaal an der Königstraße in Eickel sei über die Jahre zu klein geworden. „Wir werden ihn jetzt auch verkaufen.“ Am Sonntag wird der Königreichssaal dann an die Herner Gemeinden der Zeugen übergeben. „Hierzu erwarten wir Richard Kelsey von der deutschen Zentrale der Zeugen Jehovas.“

 

 

ley extremismo y de libertad religiosa en Rusia/Extremism Law Curbs Religious Freedom in Russia

26 de noviembre 2012

http://www.theworld.org/2012/11/russia-anti-extremism-law/

 

This is what extremism sounds like, according to Russian law. At the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in St. Petersburg, worshippers start their bible study session with a song. No other religious group has been hit so hard by Russia’s controversial anti-extremism law. In the past three years, the church reports that state authorities have arrested or detained more than a thousand believers, searched 148 homes and buildings, and banned 68 publications.

“There is no logic, there is no any sense when experts say that this is extremism and this is not,” says Yaroslav Sivulski, a member of the church’s presiding committee.

“We are very active,” Sivulski says. “We are preaching, we approach people at home, we are preaching on the street, we are visible. Maybe it’s [that] our activities could be viewed like a threat to [the] Orthodox Church.”

The church had 40,000 members when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. They now have 165,000. Church leaders say they’re being persecuted as extremists, when all they’re doing is peacefully following their religion.

“The anti-extremist law in Russia is very problematic precisely because it is so broad and vague,” says Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch. Human rights groups like hers have condemned the law on many fronts.

“It is essentially designed for selective use and sometimes it is being arbitrarily used, including against religious minorities,” says Lokshina.

Lokshina says the law has been used to go after “sects.” She notes that writings by L. Ron Hubbard made it onto the Federal List of Extremist Materials. The list has more than 1500 titles, half of which are religious. Geraldine Fagan is a religion analyst from the Forum 18 news service.

“There was an attempt recently to ban the Hare Krishna’s most revered text which didn’t work, partly because there was such an outcry in India,” Fagan says.

Fagan says that every extremism case she’s looked at has centered on charges that one religion has said that it’s better than others. She says the strategy is identical to how authorities treated any kind of dissent during the Soviet era.

“And there’s in fact an uncanny parallel between cases against Jehovah’s Witnesses now and the types of things which were happening in Soviet times in the 60s, 70s and 80s, right down to the use of the world ‘extremism,” Fagan says.

The extremism law is used against groups directly connected to violence, such as militant Islamic groups in the north Caucasus and neo-nazis. Its prosecution of religious minorities raises a lot of concerns. The Russian Orthodox Church denies that state authorities are acting on its behalf by cracking down on the competition, but Church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin says that Jehovah’s Witnesses should be prevented from using inflammatory language, like calling the Russian Orthodox Church a false church.

“Some of the texts which they disseminate hurt the Orthodox Christians,” Chaplin says. “Sometimes they use toward us very impolite phrases which I can easily call extremist.”

The US Council on International Religious Freedom says the situation in Russia is “deteriorating” as the government increasingly uses the extremism law against peaceful religious groups and individuals. Five years ago, the law dropped the requirement for the use or threat of violence. And starting next year, participating in a “banned group” will be punishable by three years in prison

 

Esto es lo que suena como el extremismo, de acuerdo con la legislación rusa.  En el Salón del Reino de los Testigos de Jehová en San Petersburgo, adoradores de comenzar su sesión de estudio de la Biblia con una canción.  Ningún grupo religioso ha sido golpeado tan duro por el controvertido Rusia contra el extremismo ley.  En los últimos tres años, la iglesia dice que las autoridades estatales han arrestado o detenido a más de mil creyentes, buscaron 148 viviendas y edificios, y se le prohibió 68 publicaciones.

 

"No hay lógica, no hay ningún sentido en que los expertos dicen que este es el extremismo y esto no es", dice Yaroslav Sivulski, miembro de la comisión que preside la iglesia.

 "Estamos muy activa", dice Sivulski.  "Estamos predicando, nos acercamos a la gente en casa, estamos predicando en la calle, que son visibles.  Tal vez sea [que] nuestra actividad podría verse como una amenaza a [la] Iglesia Ortodoxa ".

 La iglesia tenía 40.000 miembros cuando la Unión Soviética se derrumbó en 1991.  Ahora tienen 165.000.  Los líderes dicen que están siendo perseguidos como extremistas, cuando lo único que estamos haciendo es seguir pacíficamente su religión.

 "La ley anti-extremista en Rusia es muy problemática, precisamente porque es tan amplio y vago", dice Tanya Lokshina de Human Rights Watch.  Grupos de derechos humanos como la suya han condenado la ley en muchos frentes.

 "Es esencialmente diseñado para su uso selectivo y, a veces se utiliza arbitrariamente, en particular contra las minorías religiosas", dice Lokshina.

 Lokshina dice que la ley se ha utilizado para ir después de "sectas". Ella señala que los escritos de L. Ronald Hubbard lo hizo en la lista federal de materiales extremistas.  La lista cuenta con más de 1500 títulos, la mitad de los cuales son religiosos.  Geraldine Fagan es un analista de la religión desde el servicio de noticias Forum 18.

 "Hubo un intento reciente para prohibir texto más venerado de los Hare Krishna, que no ha funcionado, en parte porque no había tal protesta en India", dijo Fagan.

 Fagan dice que cada caso extremismo ella miraba se ha centrado en las acusaciones de que una religión que ha dicho que es mejor que otros.  Ella dice que la estrategia es idéntica a cómo las autoridades tratan cualquier tipo de disidencia durante la era soviética.

 "Y no hay de hecho un paralelismo asombroso entre los casos contra los Testigos de Jehová ahora y los tipos de cosas que estaban sucediendo en la época soviética en los años 60, 70 y 80, hasta el uso de extremismo en el mundo", afirma Fagan.

 La ley extremismo se utiliza contra los grupos directamente vinculados a la violencia, como los grupos militantes islámicos en el norte del Cáucaso y los neonazis.  Su persecución de las minorías religiosas plantea muchas preocupaciones.  La Iglesia ortodoxa rusa niega que las autoridades estatales están actuando en su nombre por tomar medidas enérgicas contra la competencia, pero la Iglesia portavoz Vsevolod Chaplin dice que los Testigos de Jehová se debe impedir el uso de un lenguaje incendiario, como llamar a la Iglesia Ortodoxa Rusa una iglesia falsa.

 "Algunos de los textos que se difunden herir a los cristianos ortodoxos", dice Chaplin.  "A veces se utiliza para con nosotros frases muy descorteses que no me cuesta llamar extremista".

 El Consejo de EE.UU. sobre Libertad Religiosa Internacional dice que la situación en Rusia está "deteriorando", ya que el gobierno utiliza cada vez más la ley contra el extremismo pacíficos grupos religiosos e individuos.  Hace cinco años, la ley eliminó el requisito para el uso o la amenaza de violencia.  Y a partir del próximo año, la participación en un "grupo prohibido" será castigado con tres años de prisión.

 

 

Testemunhas de Jeová fazem assembleia para surdos nesse final de semana em Porto Velho/asamblea en lenguaje de señas.

http://www.rondonoticias.com.br/ler.php?id=115612

22/11/2012

 

 

Porto Velho - Com o tema “Proteja a sua mente”, as Testemunhas de Jeová iniciam nesse sábado (24), às 9h, na av. Campos Sales, 1622, bairro Areal, mais um evento social e bíblico ministrado totalmente em Língua Brasileira de Sinais-LIBRAS para surdos de parte da região Norte.

 

No domingo o tema é: “Proteja sua consciência” e tem por alvo preparar público para enfrentar com êxito situações que podem fazê-los violar a consciência pela prática de ações que desagradam tanto aos homens quanto a Deus. Os discursos principais são: “O que representa um perigo para nossa consciência”, “Como podemos treinar a nossa consciência”, e “Como os jovens podem permanecer firmes ao enfrentar pressão para transigir”, que vai equipar os jovens para não permitir que outros os influenciem a fazer o mal.

 

Haverá várias palestras, experiência de situações reais e exibição de vídeos com mensagem instrutivas, encorajadoras e edificantes. O público esperado é de 150 pessoas de Porto Velho, e outras cidades de Rondônia, do estado do Acre, Comodoro-MT, além de voluntários de Brasília, São Paulo e Goiás.

 

“O objetivo da assembléia é integrar cada vez mais os surdos de nossa região à vida normal e interagir com ouvintes”, em especial, com familiares. Há casos em que o surdo não sabe sequer o nome da mãe ou do pai, “declara Eliabe Marins, palestrante e voluntário do evento.

 

A programação é aguardada com muita expectativa entre os surdos, pois no Estado é pouca a realização de eventos totalmente em LIBRAS. Ilce, de Nova Triunfo e mãe de três filhos, disse: “Não vejo a hora de chegar na assembléia, rever amigos e desfrutar dos discursos.

Como são educadas as testemunhas de Jeová /MEntiras hacerca de la educacion y vida de de Los testigos.

http://www.dn.pt/especiais/interior.aspx?content_id=2902209&especial=Revistas%20de%20Imprensa&seccao=TV%20e%20MEDIA            

 

Mais de 600 pessoas juntaram-se para denunciar a sua antiga religião contando como até soprar uma vela podia ser considerado pecado.

 

As testemunhas de Jeová vivem uma vida dominada pelo medo de pecar. De acordo com a revista Sábado, as crianças não podem cantar os parabéns nem participar em festas de Natal nas escolas, e os livros infantis são queimados em bidons de metal por fiéis mais fervorosos.

 

Os jovens são educados de modo a não irem para a faculdade nem aceitarem promoções de emprego e se um dia se casarem tem que ser sem nunca terem dado um beijo na boca.

 

Regras rígidas impostas pela religião. Se algum dia os filhos a quiserem abandonar, os pais são obrigados a cortar relações com eles, adianta a revista Sábado.

 

 

Transfusão de sangue: quando existem tratamentos alternativos aos pacientes

http://jornalcidade.uol.com.br/rioclaro/dia-a-dia/saude/98704--Transfusao-de-sangue:-quando-existem-tratamentos-alternativos-aos-pacientes-

 

Existem procedimentos alternativos à transfusão de sangue

 

Quando a transfusão de sangue é indicada a um paciente, poucas pessoas se negam a receber. Mas e quando o embasamento religioso recusa tal procedimento?

Esta postura é adotada pelos Testemunhas de Jeová, que acreditam que as transfusões de sangue são proibidas por trechos bíblicos.

Um projeto de lei de 2005 do deputado federal Dr. Heleno previa instituir o direito de opção de tratamento de saúde alternativo a todos os pacientes passíveis do uso de transfusão, porém tal projeto não foi aprovado e está arquivado.

A recusa de tratamento médico motivada por convicção religiosa já tem proteção constitucional, mas poucas pessoas sabem que qualquer um, independente da religião, pode solicitar procedimentos alternativos à transfusão sanguínea.

 

Atualmente as comunidades médicas e jurídicas, ainda que de forma tímida, têm dado sinais de que tendem a reconhecer o direito do paciente de rejeitar determinados tratamentos médicos, independentemente do risco que ele esteja correndo com essa recusa.

 

Em todo o mundo existem mais de 100 mil médicos que utilizam técnicas alternativas à transfusão sanguínea. No Brasil, já por mais de uma década, os médicos vêm utilizando técnicas em substituição à transfusão sanguínea.

Pesquisas apontam que a experiência médica tem também demonstrado que a utilização de técnicas alternativas ao sangue apresenta diversas vantagens, sendo uma delas a impossibilidade de transmissão de doenças viróticas mortais ao paciente.

 

Vagner Gamba, da Comissão de Ligação com Hospitais para as Testemunhas de Jeová (COLIH), fala um pouco sobre o assunto, de forma a esclarecer a existência de procedimentos alternativos:

JC - Hoje existe muito preconceito por parte da sociedade a respeito desse assunto exatamente por não entender os motivos, que não são apenas religiosos. Vocês acreditam que falta informação médica sobre as alternativas?

 

Gamba - Não, hoje em dia uma rápida busca na internet sobre cirurgia sem sangue, alternativas às transfusões, no blood, etc, encontrarão muita informação a respeito e praticamente todas revistas médicas publicadas no mundo têm centenas de artigos sobre o assunto.

 

JC - Poderia citar alguma das alternativas existentes à transfusão sanguínea?

 

Gamba - Para pacientes anêmicos, uma alternativa é o uso de HrEPO, um hormônio que faz crescer rapidamente os glóbulos vermelhos. Em cirurgia, o recuperador de células, que aspira o sangue que seria perdido durante a cirurgia, filtra e devolve no mesmo momento ao paciente, evitando assim a necessidade de transfusões. E a mais utilizada em praticamente todas as cirurgias é a HNA, hemodiluição normovolêmica aguda, que retira um pouco do sangue do paciente minutos antes da cirurgia, repõe o volume de sangue retirado com um solução acelular e vai reinfundindo este sangue durante o procedimento para compensar a perda durante a cirurgia. Este é o procedimento mais simples e de custo praticamente zero, usado nos grandes centros cirúrgicos da Europa e dos EUA. Ainda existem dispositivos cirúrgicos para minimizar a perda sanguínea, técnicas para evitar e controlar hemorragias, técnicas anestésicas para limitar a perda sanguínea, expansores do volume, agentes hemostáticos para hemorragia e coagulação, e muitos outros. Importante ressaltar que cada caso é um caso e em cada um deve-se estudar quais estratégias usar e muitas vezes se usam uma combinação dessas estratégias a fim de obter o melhor resultado.

 

JC - Sobre os médicos que fazem os procedimentos, vocês acreditam que falta informação para que eles façam cirurgias sem a necessidade de sangue?

 

Gamba - A Comissão de Ligação com Hospitais, da qual faço parte, tem um programa de visita a médicos, hospitais, escolas de medicina, enfermagem, etc, pelo qual levamos informações atualizadas, fazemos palestras, conferências médicas, além de um amplo material que colocamos à disposição de qualquer médico ou instituição e sem custo, e muitos médicos têm se interessado pelo assunto, ampliando assim seus conhecimentos, técnicas em benefício não apenas desse grupo minoritário, mas de toda a sociedade, uma vez que sabe-se que, apesar dos avanços da medicina, ainda assim os riscos associados às transfusões são alarmantes e a mortalidade relacionada às transfusões continuam altas.

 

Órdenes del TEDH para compensar los testigos de Jehová que se negaron el servicio militar

http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20121127/265546148.html

 

27/11/2012 17:42

 

MOSCU, 27 de noviembre -. RAPSI El Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos (CEDH) otorgó a varios testigos de Jehová locales 124.000 euros en daños y perjuicios por parte del gobierno armenio.  Los individuos presentaron una denuncia en relación con la legalidad de su detención por evadir el servicio militar o civil.

 

Diecinueve reclamantes presentaron la denuncia correspondiente ante el tribunal.  Afirmaron que en 2004 se utilizó una ley que permite a los ciudadanos de Armenia para ofrecer servicios a la comunidad alternativa en hospitales, casas de salud o clínicas especializadas.  Pero en 2005, los acusados ​​notificó a los administradores de las instalaciones que se negaron a cumplir con sus obligaciones.

 

Los acusados ​​justificaron su negativa alegando que este servicio alternativo, de hecho, los subordina al Ministerio de Defensa, y por lo tanto eran de hecho miembros de las fuerzas armadas.  Dado que esta contradice sus creencias, dejaron de servir.  Las causas penales se iniciaron luego contra cada uno de los acusados, y fueron puestos bajo custodia.

 

Finalmente, los casos penales fueron desestimados, pero los acusados ​​todavía presentó una denuncia ante el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos (CEDH), basado en la ilegalidad de su detención.

 

El tribunal por unanimidad del lado de los acusados, y sostuvo que el gobierno debe indemnizar a los demandantes un plazo de tres meses.

Jehovah's Witnesses set district conventions

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/314969/jehovahs-witnesses-set-district-conventions

November 29th, 2012

 

THE 2012 “Safeguard Your Heart!” district convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses will be held tomorrow, Nov. 30 at the Lapu-Lapu City Hoops Dome, and on Dec. 7 at the New Cebu Coliseum in Cebu City.

 

The conventions will tackle Biblical references. It will also include self examination and reflection, and help the participants make wise decisions, improve family life, strengthen relationship with God and find true happiness.

 

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are inviting the public to attend. Admission is free. The sessions begin at 8:20 a.m.

Departamento de Justicia establece nueva investigación de bandidos en el secuestro de los Testigos de Jehová

http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/news/nation/4402-doj-sets-reinvestigation-of-bandits-in-kidnapping-of-jehovah-s-witnesses

 

 

Departamento de Justicia establece nueva investigación de bandidos en el secuestro de los Testigos de Jehová

  

 02 de diciembre 2012 18:18  El Departamento de Justicia va a investigar de nuevo el lunes que el asesinato y el secuestro de los gastos de rescate que fueron presentadas contra Abu Sayyaf bandidos por el secuestro de seis miembros de los Testigos de Jehová en Patikul, Sulu, en agosto de 2002.  Dos de las víctimas fueron decapitadas.

 

La nueva investigación fue ordenada por el juez a cargo del caso después de que algunos de los acusados. Afirmaron que fueron detenidos por agentes del Estado, sobre la base de datos de inteligencia erróneos

 Asistente Principal Peter Ong Fiscal del Estado dijo que la nueva investigación se basó en la petición de varios acusados ​​que insistió en que eran inocentes de los casos presentados en su contra.

 Ong dijo que la nueva investigación fue ordenada por el juez Toribio Ilao Jr. de Poder 266 del Tribunal Regional de Pasig City, que está oyendo los casos.

 Los sospechosos están detenidos mientras se somete a juicio.

 Ong dijo que el tribunal sentía que no había mérito en la solicitud de los acusados.

 Las víctimas, cuatro de ellos mujeres, estaban haciendo puerta a puerta, venta de productos cosméticos Avon, cuando los presuntos miembros de Abu Sayyaf se los llevó.

 Dos de los prisioneros que son hombres fueron decapitados y sus cuerpos posteriormente fueron recuperados en un mercado en Jolo un día después de ser secuestrado.

 Los dos fueron identificados como Lemuel Bantolo y Mantic Leonel.  23-años de edad, Mantic esposa también fue uno de los secuestrados.

Council overturns zoning ruling for Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall on Indy's Northwestside

http://www.mydesert.com/article/BG/20121203/NEWS05/121203025/Council-overturns-zoning-ruling-Jehovah-s-Witnesses-Kingdom-Hall-Indy-s-Northwestside-?odyssey=mod_sectionstories

Dec 3, 2012

 

The City-County Council on Monday night overturned a zoning decision that would have allowed construction of a Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall in a Northwestside neighborhood.

In a rare move, council member Jose Evans, a Democrat who represents District 1, had called for a full hearing on a land rezoning case that the Metropolitan Development Commission previously approved. Those decisions usually are upheld by the council without discussion.

But plans for construction of a 6,000-square-foot church building for three Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations at 8851 Colby Blvd. had attracted wide opposition from College Park neighbors. In five years, another building would have been built on the 5.8-acre site.

The council overturned the decision 19-8. The motion needed an 18-vote supermajority to succeed.

For about two hours in the packed chamber in the City-County Building, the council heard opponents’ appeals to overturn the decision based on concerns about traffic, pedestrian safety and the loss of green space.

But many in the crowd were supportive of the church development, asking council members to uphold the decision.

David Shelton, an attorney for the College Park Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, charged that in an earlier meeting, some neighborhood opponents expressed animus against the project based on religion.

Council member Jeff Miller, a Republican, responded to appeals to protect the congregations’ religious rights by saying: “What would Jesus do? Jesus would not hire a lawyer to tell a neighborhood that they need a church there.”

The vote crossed party lines, with all Republicans and six Democrats voting to overturn the zoning decision.

Shelton said after the vote that a federal lawsuit would be the only way to challenge the council’s decision. The congregations still were considering their next step.

Redistricting and more

A vote on the majority Democrats’ redistricting plan was among several delayed until the Dec. 17 meeting because two Democratic members were absent. Democrats — who usually hold a 16-13 edge — would have lacked the minimum 15 votes needed to pass proposals if votes fell along party lines.

 

 

New Kingdom Hall opens on Old Kings

http://www.palmcoastobserver.com/news/palm-coast/Neighborhood/112720125763/New-Kingdom-Hall-opens-on-Old-Kings

November 28

 

 

A new Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses was dedicated last week on Old Kings Road North.

The new hall is the second building on the Old Kings Road property and hosts three congregations: two English-speaking congregations from Palm Coast and a Haitian Creole congregation.

Building No. 2 joins another hall which was dedicated in 2007, and is home to an English congregation from Flagler Beach, as well as a Portuguese and Russian congregations.

The new site is an addition to a Kingdom Hall on White View, which is home to three more congregations: Spanish, Central West and Pine Grove English speakers. That site was built in 1987.

“We’re more than 1,000 strong active in ministry (in Flagler County),” said Bill Carpenter, an elder. “It grew very quickly, and some of it has to do with it’s a very different worship.”

The land for the new building was bought two years ago, and the construction project, which started in March, was completed in September.

Volunteers, for the most part, did the land clearing, building and landscaping. Other Witnesses came from East Central Florida to lend their support.

Carpenter also believes that the congregation has grown large because times are tough, and people need comfort and encouragement.

“The vision is that Bible education is the key to the problems that we’re facing in the world today,” Carpenter said. “We feel strongly that the Our Father Prayer, The Lord’s Prayer, reveals the solution to the problems — when people pray for God’s Kingdom to come and for God’s work to be done here, as it is in heaven. That’s the main focus of our evangelism work. We are not there to convert people. We want to educate them on what the Bible says.”

The elders believe that with their congregations growing at a record pace in Flagler County, another expansion will be needed in the near future.

“We’re going to keep seeing growth and will try to fill whatever need spiritually there is, in Palm Coast,” said elder George Kastroulis.

Pasajeros del bus que se estrelló en el Aeropuerto de Miami trataron de alertar al conductor

http://www.miamidiario.com/sucesos/aeropuerto-internacional-de-miami-/dos-muertos/bus-accidentado/ramon-ferreiro/301304

 

03/12/2012 a las 11:25 horas

El chofer del autobús en el que murieron dos personas y resultaron heridos 30 más ignoró las señales de límite de altura y las advertencias de los pasajeros.

 

Poco antes de ingresar por un paso a nivel en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami, el chofer del autobús en el que murieron dos personas y resultaron heridos 30 miembros de una congregación de Testigos de Jehová, ignoró las señales de límite de altura y las advertencias de los propios pasajeros, le dijo la hija de una sobreviviente al Miami Herald.

Según la madre de la joven, varios pasajeros intentaron persuadir al chofer para que retrocediera.

Serafín Castillo, de 86 años, y Francisco Urena, de 56 años, fallecieron el sábado luego de que el techo del autobús de 11 pies de altura se empotrara violentamente contra la viga de concreto bajo la cual pueden pasar sólo vehículos con menos de 8 pies y 6 pulgadas de altura.

El autobús Van Hool de la empresa Miami Bus Service era conducido por Ramón Ferreiro, de 47 años y quien sólo sufrió heridas leves.

Ferreiro podría enfrentar cargos de negligencia criminal, salvo que los reportes de toxicología muestren que se encontraba bajo la influencia de alcohol o drogas.

La dueña de Miami Bus Service, Mayling Hernández, dijo que no sabía si Ferrero era consciente de la altura del autobús.

 

Importante hallazgo arqueológico en Israel

8 Nov 2012 - 8:17 am

Descubrimiento arqueológico

Importante hallazgo arqueológico en Israel

Se trata de un pozo que data del Neolítico con esqueletos de 8.500 años.

 

 

Arqueólogos israelíes han descubierto en excavaciones en el Valle del Esdraelón, en la baja Galilea, un pozo que data del período Neolítico (VER GALERÍA DE FOTOSy que contenía dos esqueletos humanos de 8.500 años, informó este jueves la Autoridad de Antigüedades de Israel.

El hallazgo, realizado en un sitio denominado "Enot Nisanit", en los márgenes occidentales del bíblico valle, fue hecho de forma fortuita en excavaciones previas al ensanchamiento de una carretera.

Los restos humanos son de una mujer de unos 19 años y de un hombre mayor que ella y suponen un misterio para los arqueólogos, que no han podido determinar si cayeron a su interior por accidente o fueron arrojados al mismo.

El director de las excavaciones, Yotam Tepper, afirma en un comunicado de laAutoridad de Antigüedades, que "lo que está claro es que después de que estos individuos desconocidos cayeran al pozo, el agua dejó de ser empleada por la sencilla razón de que quedó contaminada y ya no era potable".

Así mismo destaca que el foso guarda relación con un antiguo asentamiento agrícolacuyos habitantes lo emplearon para la subsistencia cotidiana.

La parte superior está construida con piedras y la inferior cavada en roca viva.

Dos grandes piedras rematan la entrada del pozo, de 8 metros de profundidad y 1,3 metros de diámetro en la apertura superior.

Además de los restos humanos, Tepper subraya que fueron encontrados numerosos utensilios que dan claves de la identidad de las gentes que cavaron el pozo, entre ellos, cuchillas denticuladas de sílex empleadas probablemente para cosechar, así como cabezas de flechas y otros útiles tallados en piedra.

Omri Barzilai, jefe del Departamento de Prehistoria de la Autoridad de Antigüedades, refiere que "los pozos de este período son hallazgos únicos en la arqueología de Israel y probablemente también en el mundo prehistórico en general".

Los dos pozos más antiguos del mundo fueron encontrados en Chipre y ponen de relieve el comienzo del fenómeno de la domesticación.

"Parece ser que el hombre antiguo intentó idear fórmulas para proteger el agua bebible de posibles contaminaciones por los animales que cuidaba, y por ello acotó el agua en un lugar que no fuera accesible para el ganado", concluye Barzilai. 

 

Testigos de Jehová tendrán asamblea en Zacatecas

http://zacatecasonline.com.mx/noticias/local/27114-testigos-jehova-zacatecas.html

 

Del 23 al 25 de noviembre se llevará a cabo en la ciudad la Asamblea de Distrito de los Testigos de Jehová 2012.

 Se espera la llegada de unos 1.500 congresistas provenientes del Distrito Federal y de los estados de México, Aguascalientes, Durango, Guanajuato y San Luis Potosí.

 Los trabajos están programados para realizarse en el Centro de Convenciones de la ciudad de Zacatecas.

Nueve muertos en accidente entre bus y gandola en Anzoátegui

http://www.eluniversal.com/sucesos/121124/nueve-muertos-en-accidente-entre-bus-y-gandola-en-anzoategui

 

sábado 24 de noviembre de 2012  08:39 PM

Puerto La Cruz.- Nueve personas fallecieron en la tarde de este sábado y 20 resultaron lesionadas, cuando chocaron un autobús de una línea privada y una gandola.

El accidente se produjo en el kilómetro 90, entre los municipios Anaco y  Freites, capital Cantaura, lo que interrumpió el tráfico hasta avanzadas horas de la noche para el levantamiento del choque y el auxilio de los heridos, dijo el director de Protección Civil (PC) de Anaco, Rafael Hurtado.

Algunos de los heridos gravemente fallecieron cuando iban a ser trasladados a los centros asistenciales y según Hurtado, se estaban habilitando las clínicas privadas para darles atención de los que sufrieron lesiones en el lamentable hecho.

El funcionario aseveró que fue un choque entre una gandola y un autobús privado. Trascendió que la unidad autobusera trasladaba desde Puerto La Cruz a un grupo religioso testigos de Jehová, que iban a cumplir actividades en la zona, sin embargo, se desconocían otros datos del incidente.

Las autoridades de PC señalaron que esperaban la llegada del alcalde, Francisco Frasso, y que las declaraciones oficiales serían emitidas, una vez, se pudiera recuperar la gandola que quedó hacia un lado de la vía.

Este tipo de accidentes no es nuevo en la carretera nacional, y son constantes los choques, lo que mantiene elevados los índices de fallecidos por esta causa y alarmados a los habitantes de las zonas centro- sur de Anzoátegui.

 

 

Cuba: A Visit from Jehovah's Witnesses

http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=82716

November 25, 2012 

 

HAVANA TIMES — Every Sunday, two Jehovah’s Witnesses come to my house. At first the visits weren’t welcomed because that’s the day I try to take care of a lot of my outstanding “stuff,” so I hardly have time to talk.

But one of the young women is nice, and it’s a pleasure to listen to her. In addition, I prefer being courteous and not behaving like many people in our neighborhood, those who refuse to let them come in and virtually slam the door in their faces.

I can’t deny the fact that I have no interest in becoming a Jehovah’s Witness, though I note that with their periodic visits they’re trying to make me believe that in this religion rests the happiness of all human beings.

Every Sunday they give me a copy of the magazine Despertad! (Awake!). In it appear interesting articles and questions such as: “Why are governments important for changing the world?” and “Will our world change someday.” There’s a list where they detail what they would like to change:

 

- Hunger
- War
- Diseases
- Crimes
- Prejudice
- Pollution
- Injustice
- Poverty

 

Personally, I would change everything on that list for the good of humanity. But I don’t have to be a Jehovah’s Witness or profess any religion in order to do that. One simply has to be a human being and realize what’s right and what’s wrong.

 

With the passage of time, I’ve come to the realization that if all of us were as descent, communicative and truly human as those two young women, our lives might change for the better.

But it’s evident that in this day and age there are few people here in Cuba interested in changing anything, so they prefer to close doors and bite their tongues.

I’ll ask one question: Has anything changed or is something really changing in today’s Cuba?

 

1.800 testigos de Jehová llenan el Fórum por vez primera

http://www.elcorreodeburgos.com/noticias/2012-12-03/1800-testigos-de-jehova-llenan-el-forum-por-vez-primera

 

1.800 testigos de Jehová llenan el Fórum por vez primera

Delegados de varias provincias celebran en Burgos su convención

Lun, 03/12/2012

 

Burgos

Con una asistencia total de 1.769 delegados llegados de varias provincias concluyó este domingo la convención de dos días que los testigos de Jehová han celebrado durante este fin de semana en el Palacio de Congresos y Auditorio Fórum Evolución de Burgos. Un acto que desde los responsables de esta creencia religiosa califican tras su finalización como «estimulador y provechoso».

Entre otros aspectos se destacó a lo largo de ls dos jornadas la necesidad que tienen los cristianos de usar nuestras facultades mentales de manera apropiada, «especialmente para adorar a Dios como a él le agrada», lo cual a su vez» también redundará en nuestro propio beneficio personal».

Con la máxima ‘mens sana in corpore sano’, a lo largo de la convención se incidió «en la importancia que la mente y nuestros pensamientos pueden tener en nuestra salud física». Asímismo,  «proteger nuestra mente, dominar nuestros pensamientos, procurando imitar la actitud mental de Jesucristo y rechazando cualquier influencia corruptora, contribuirá a nuestra buena salud espiritual», señalan en un comunicado remitido al término de la convención.

 

107-year-old Holocaust survivor, Jehovah's Witness is star of 'Ladder in the Lions' Den' documentary

 11/13/2012




An unusual Holocaust documentary has brought near-capacity afternoon crowds to the Laemmle Town Center 5 for almost a week.
They've come not only to see "Ladder in the Lions' Den," but to meet its subject, 107-year-old Austrian survivor Leopold Engleitner.
Sitting quietly in his wheelchair outside the theater, the frail but remarkably resilient Engleitner met adoring fans from all over Southern California after Monday's screening of the 40-minute-film. It recounts the Jehovah's Witness' refusal to join Hitler's army during World War II and subsequent imprisonment in three Nazi concentration camps.
"It's really something that everybody should know about but very few people do," said Dave Butler, a Jehovah's Witness who drove down from Bakersfield to see the movie and meet the man. "Leopold doesn't speak English, I'd love to talk to him, but I think he's awesome. He's expending his limited strength and resources to come out and meet people and do this tour; it's amazing. It's very generous of him."
Born in 1905 with a bent spine and raised in a lakeside village not far from where Hitler grew up, Engleitner was appalled by the slaughter of World War I and joined the pacifist Jehovah's Witnesses in the early 1930s. When Austria joined the German Reich in 1938, members of the religion were rounded up. They could get out of the camps if they signed a paper - the ladder of the title - renouncing their religion and accepting the Nazis' warlike ways.
According to the film, the Austrian Witnesses, including Engleitner, refused to do so. Many, of course, paid with their lives.
Through narration and re-enactment, the movie recounts Engleitner's harrowing ordeal, which included the time when, starving on a march back to camp from a work detail, his testicle was crushed by an SS guard's boot, which prevented him from ever fathering children.
Decades later, Engleitner met a young Austrian, Bernhard Rammerstorfer, in a park in his hometown. Taken by the older man's story, Rammerstorfer wrote a book about Engleitner, "Unbroken Will," and produced an earlier documentary about him as well as "Ladder in the Lions' Den."
Independent up to age 105, Engleitner has lived with Rammerstorfer, his wife and their young daughter in their home country for the last two years.
"He deserves it," Rammerstorfer said. "His last period of life should not be in a nursing home, but in a family. So it was important to give him a warm family environment, and he enjoys it very much."
Obviously, though, the old guy still gets around. Indeed, Engleitner's racked up 95,000 travel miles in less than two decades, making appearances and speaking to audiences throughout the world.
"I like it very much," Engleitner said, with Rammerstorfer interpreting. "Now I've found open ears and can tell my story through the film. One of the most important things to me is to teach people tolerance, humanity and peace.
"I especially appreciate that the youth are so interested and open," Engleitner continued. "I like to speak to youth because they are not prejudiced and they are open to everyone."
Andrew Sanchez, 22, is an example of that. He came up from San Diego with several fellow Jehovah's Witnesses to see the film Monday. "We heard about this movie talking about his faith in action," Sanchez said. "It changes your perspective when you meet someone in person who you talk about in school and read about in history books.

"It drives it home for you, makes you feel a little more a part of it."
"I hope that educators will pick it up and realize the important message that is there," the film's narrator, Sun Valley resident Fred Fuss, said. "Leopold did a very significant thing: he just said no. When he was being bullied, browbeaten, threatened with his life to give up his principles, he didn't, because of his conscience. Isn't that the message we try to give our young people?"
While not suggesting that it was in any way easy, Engleitner said that his stubbornness in the face of evil was, quite simply, inevitable.
"It's important that you live your life according to just principles," Engleitner explained. "I found them in the Bible, and that's what also gave me strength - my strong belief in God."

107-year-old Holocaust survivor and Jehovah's Witness Leopold Engleitner
looks on following a screening of a new documentary, "Ladder in the Lion s Den,
" in Encino, Calif., on Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. The film depicts Engleitner s life
as a Jehovah s Witness in Nazi concentration camps.
Engleitner is the world s oldest known male Nazi concentration camp survivor.
Myra Becker meets 107-year-old Holocaust survivor Leopold Engleitner after a screening
of a new documentary Ladder in the Lion s Den in Encino on Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer)





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Jehovah's Witnesses Miami International Airport bus crash: Worshippers headed to West Palm Beach

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_palm_beach_county/west_palm_beach/jehovahs-witnesses-miami-international-airport-bus-crash-worshippers-headed-to-west-palm-beach

 

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The bus involved in a deadly crash on Saturday that killed two and injured several others was on its way to West Palm Beach for a religious convention.

Packed inside the Jehovah's Witness Christian Convention Center on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, more than 2,500 worshippers stood next to each other praying for those impacted by Saturday's wreck.

"I thought about them. I called people I know who were related and friends and they were in my prayers and in my thoughts," said Anjulie Vargus, a Miami Jehovah's Witness attending the service.

Vargus, like many of the Jehovah's Witness ministers, traveled from Miami to be together with whom she calls her "brothers and sisters." Member of all 21 attending congregations carried the void of their loss on Saturday both in their heads and in their hearts.

"You don't expect anything bad to go, to happen when coming here, it's a joyful event. But like I said, it's a terrible situation and we're here for them," said Richard Rubi, a Miami Jehovah's Witness elder.

Rubi joined other church elders who rushed down to Miami to help after the services.

Not far behind them, hundreds of worshippers who boarded similar buses for their journey home.

"We know that it was an accident and accidents happen. But we are very sure that we are going to get home safe," said Vargus.

Church leaders said Saturday evening there are no plans to cancel the events schedule for Sunday's religious convention.

Most worshippers said they are not worried and plan to come back on Sunday, many traveling by bus.

Bus full of Jehovah's Witnesses hits Miami airport overpass; 1 dead

MIAMI (AP) — At Miami International Airport, two large signs warn drivers of large vehicles not to pass beneath the 8-foot-6 inch concrete overpass. Authorities say two passengers are dead and others have been critically injuredafter a too-tall charter bus smashed into the overpass, crumpling metal.

One of the signs attached to the top of the concrete barrier reads: “High Vehicle STOP Turn Left.” The other, placed to the left of the driveway and several feet in front of the barrier, says all vehicles higher than the 8-foot-6 threshold must turn left.

Authorities said the large, white bus carrying 32 members of a church group hit the overpass after the driver got lost Saturday, killing two male passengers and leaving three other passengers critically injured.

Airport spokesman Greg Chin said the bus was too tall for the entrance to the arrivals area and that buses are supposed to go through the departures area because of its higher clearance.

The bus was going about 20 mph when it struck the overpass Saturday morning, Chin added. News photographs showed the front of the vehicle’s rooftop crumpled beneath the overpass.

Osvaldo Lopez, an officer with the Miami-Dade Aviation Department, said he heard a loud noise Saturday morning and rushed to help. He said he went inside the bus and found several passengers tossed into the center aisle. He said the passengers, many of whom were elderly, remained calm.

“It was just very bloody,” he added.

Police said that one man, Serafin Castillo, 86, of Miami, died at the scene. A second man identified by authorities as Francisco Urana, 56, also of Miami, died later at a hospital.

Chin said passengers told him they were part of a group of Jehovah’s Witnesses headed to West Palm Beach. Police said in a news release that the group had chartered the bus to take them to a church convention there.

The group was made up of congregation members of Sweetwater’s Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, said Sweetwater Mayor Manny Marono.

“This is a tragic accident that has affected many families, as well as, our Sweetwater family,” Marono said in a statement.

A phone number listed for the center in Sweetwater went unanswered in the hours after the crash.

Three people were at hospitals in critical condition. The other 27 surviving passengers were hurt, but their injuries were less extensive, authorities said.

Eight of the 14 patients initially taken to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital were in stable condition while two others were in critical, said hospital spokeswoman Lidia Amoretti. Local reports said three people with lesser injuries were later released.

A majority of the injuries were facial due to the frontal impact, said Miami-Dade Police spokesman Det. Alvaro Zabaleta.

He said the driver was not familiar with the airport area and it was too early to say if charges would be filed. Investigators said they had conducted interviews Saturday with the driver, who suffered minor injuries.

“The preliminary info tells us that he wasn’t too familiar with the area surrounding the airport, and that’s what led him to take perhaps the wrong ramp that led him onto the property of the airport, and because of not being familiar with the airport, did not know or really see the height requirement in order for that bus to clear the overpass,” Zabaleta said.

The bus was privately owned and typically used for tours, authorities said.

Markings on the bus show it was owned by Miami Bus Service Corp.

The company owns three motor coaches, according to the records. Miami Bus Service Corp. officials did not immediately respond to a phone message Saturday.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration records found online show the company has had no violations for unsafe driving or controlled substances and alcohol. It also had not reported any crashes in the two years before Oct. 26, 2012.

The records show it did receive three citations related to driver fatigue in April 2011.

2 die in bus crash at Miami airport; 3 critical/2 mueren en accidente de autobús en aeropuerto de Miami, 3 críticas

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/01/3121939/official-bus-hits-miami-airport.html

 

 

MIAMI -- A charter bus carrying 32 members of a church group hit a concrete overpass at Miami International Airport after the driver got lost Saturday, killing two men on board and leaving three others critically injured, officials said.

The large, white bus was too tall for the 8-foot-6-inch entrance to the arrivals area, said airport spokesman Greg Chin. Buses are supposed to go through the departures area, which has a higher clearance, he said.

Police said that one man, Serafin Castillo, 86, of Miami, died at the scene. A second man, Francisco Urana, 56, also of Miami, died later at a hospital.

Chin said passengers told him they were part of a group of Jehovah's Witnesses headed to West Palm Beach. Police said in a news release that the group had chartered the bus to take them to a church convention there.

The group was made up of congregation members of Sweetwater's Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, said Sweetwater Mayor Manny Maroño.

"This is a tragic accident that has affected many families, as well as, our Sweetwater family," Maroño said in a press release. "I am pursuing all avenues to get in touch with the appropriate persons to officially extend our help to the congregation and those who were hurt."

A phone number listed for the center in Sweetwater went unanswered.

At the airport, two large signs warn drivers of large vehicles not to pass beneath the concrete overpass. One attached to the top of the concrete barrier reads: "High Vehicle STOP Turn Left." The other, placed to the left of the driveway and several feet in front of the barrier, says all vehicles higher than the 8-foot-6 threshold must turn left.

Three people were at hospitals in critical condition. The other 27 surviving passengers were hurt, but their injuries were less extensive, authorities said.

Eight of the 14 patients taken to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital were in stable condition while two others were in critical, said hospital spokeswoman Lidia Amoretti. Three others were expected to be discharged later Saturday.

A majority of the injuries were facial due to the frontal impact, said Miami-Dade Police spokesman Det. Alvaro Zabaleta.

"People that are passengers on a chartered bus, you are putting total confidence on the driver and they're high back chairs," he said. "It's just like sitting on a plane. You really don't get to see anything in front of you until of course they felt the impact - the force takes them forward and a lot of them, the majority of them, were facial injuries."

Zabaleta said the driver was not familiar with the airport area and it was too early to say if charges would be filed.

"The preliminary info tells us that he wasn't too familiar with the area surrounding the airport, and that's what led him to take perhaps the wrong ramp that led him onto the property of the airport, and because of not being familiar with the airport, did not know or really see the height requirement in order for that bus to clear the overpass," he said. "Unfortunately, we all know, he misjudged it and that's what obviously caused the accident."

Osvaldo Lopez, an officer with the Miami-Dade Aviation Department, said he first heard a loud noise Saturday morning and was certain it was some sort of car wreck.

He said he went inside the bus to help and found several passengers thrown into the center aisle. He said the passengers, many of whom were elderly, remained calm after the wreck.

"It was just very bloody," he said of the scene.

After helping the passengers, Lopez suffered some injuries of his own - his left arm and a finger on his right hand were both bandaged.

Fire trucks and police cars swarmed the area around 7:30 a.m. Saturday, and the bus was blocked off by yellow police tape. A white cooler that had been filled with water bottles was on its side behind the bus, the front of which remained wedged beneath the overpass for hours before it was towed away.

The bus was privately owned and typically used for tours, though police believe all the passengers were local residents, said Miami-Dade police Lt. Rosanna Cordero-Stutz. The driver was unfamiliar with the area near the airport and did not intend to wind up at the arrivals area, Cordero-Stutz said. Investigators were interviewing the driver, who suffered minor injuries.

The bus was going about 20 mph when it struck the overpass Saturday morning, Chin said.

The bus model is commonly used for charters and tours, with the driver seated low to the ground and passenger seats in an elevated area behind the driver's seat.

Markings on the bus show it was owned by Miami Bus Service Corp.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration records found online show the company has had no violations for unsafe driving or controlled substances and alcohol. It also had not reported any crashes in the two years before Oct. 26, 2012.

The records show it did receive three citations related to driver fatigue in April 2011.

The company owns three motor coaches, according to the records. Miami Bus Service Corp. officials did not immediately respond to a phone message Saturday.

 

MIAMI - Un bus charter con 32 miembros de un grupo de la iglesia (TESTIGOS DE JEHOVA) tocó un paso elevado de hormigón en Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami después de que el conductor se perdió sábado, matando a dos hombres a bordo y dejando a otros tres heridos de gravedad, dijeron las autoridades.

El autobús grande, blanco era demasiado alto para la entrada de 8 pies y 6 pulgadas a la zona de llegadas, dijo el portavoz del aeropuerto Greg Chin.  Los autobuses tienen que ir a través de la zona de salidas, que cuenta con un mayor aclaramiento, dijo.

 La policía dijo que un hombre, Serafín Castillo, de 86 años, de Miami, murió en el lugar.  Un segundo hombre, Francisco Urana, de 56 años, también de Miami, murió más tarde en un hospital.

Chin dijo que los pasajeros le dijeron que eran parte de un grupo de testigos de Jehová se dirigió a West Palm Beach.  La policía dijo en un comunicado de prensa que el grupo había fletado el bus que los llevara a una convención de la iglesia allí.

El grupo estaba formado por miembros de la congregación del Reino de Sweetwater Salón de los Testigos de Jehová, dijo el alcalde de Sweetwater Manny Maroño.

"Este es un trágico accidente que ha afectado a muchas familias, así como, nuestra familia Sweetwater", dijo Maroño en un comunicado de prensa.  "Estoy buscando todas las vías para entrar en contacto con las personas adecuadas para extender nuestra ayuda oficialmente a la congregación y aquellos que resultaron heridos".

Un número de teléfono que aparece en el centro en Sweetwater quedaron sin respuesta.

En el aeropuerto, dos grandes carteles advierten a los conductores de vehículos de grandes dimensiones no pase por debajo del paso elevado de hormigón.  Una adjunta a la parte superior de la barrera de concreto dice: "Detenga el vehículo de alta Gire a la izquierda".  El otro, situado a la izquierda de la calzada y varios metros delante de la barrera, dice que todos los vehículos superiores al umbral de 8-pies-6 debe girar a la izquierda.

Tres personas se encontraban en hospitales en estado crítico.  Los otros 27 pasajeros que sobrevivieron fueron heridos, pero sus heridas eran menos extensas, dijeron las autoridades.

Ocho de los 14 pacientes llevados al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Hospital Jackson Memorial se encuentran en condición estable, mientras que otros dos estaban en estado crítico, dijo la portavoz del hospital Lidia Amoretti.  Otras tres personas se espera que sea dado de alta el sábado.

La mayoría de las lesiones fueron facial debido al impacto frontal, dijo que Miami-Dade portavoz de la policía Det.  Alvaro Zabaleta.

"Las personas que son pasajeros en un autobús fletado, usted está poniendo total confianza en el conductor y que son las sillas altas de espalda", dijo.  "Es como estar sentado en un avión que realmente no se llega a ver nada delante de ti, por supuesto, hasta que sintieron el impacto -. La fuerza hacia adelante y las lleva a muchos de ellos, la mayoría de ellos, fueron las lesiones faciales. "

 Zabaleta dijo que el conductor no estaba familiarizado con la zona del aeropuerto y que era demasiado pronto para decir si se presentarán cargos.

"La información preliminar nos dice que él no estaba muy familiarizado con la zona que rodea el aeropuerto, y eso es lo que lo llevó a tomar tal vez la rampa mal que lo llevó a la propiedad del aeropuerto, y por no estar familiarizados con el aeropuerto , no sabía o realmente ve el requisito de altura a fin de que ese autobús para despejar el paso a desnivel ", dijo.  "Por desgracia, todos sabemos, se lo juzgó mal y eso es lo que obviamente causó el accidente."

Osvaldo López, funcionario del Departamento de Aviación de Miami-Dade, dijo que primero escuchó un fuerte ruido sábado por la mañana y estaba seguro de que era algún tipo de accidente de coche.

Dijo que iba dentro del autobús para ayudar a varios pasajeros y encontró tirado en el pasillo central.  Dijo que los pasajeros, muchos de los cuales eran personas de edad, se mantuvo en calma después del naufragio.

 "Fue muy sangrienta", dijo sobre la escena.

Después de ayudar a los pasajeros, López sufrió algunas heridas propias - el brazo izquierdo y un dedo de su mano derecha fueron vendada.

Camiones de bomberos y coches de policía invadieron el área alrededor de las 7:30 am del sábado, y el autobús estaba bloqueada por la cinta amarilla de la policía.  Un blanco más frío que se había llenado de botellas de agua estaba a su lado detrás del autobús, al frente del cual quedó encajado debajo del paso elevado durante horas antes de que fuera retirado por la grúa.

El autobús era de propiedad privada y se utilizan normalmente para los viajes, aunque la policía cree que todos los pasajeros eran residentes locales, dijo la policía de Miami-Dade, el teniente Rosanna Cordero-Stutz.  El conductor no estaba familiarizado con el área cerca del aeropuerto y no tenía intención de terminar en la zona de llegadas, Cordero-Stutz, dijo.  Los investigadores estaban entrevistando al conductor, quien sufrió heridas leves.

                El autobús iba alrededor de 20 millas por hora cuando golpeó el paso elevado de la mañana del sábado, dijo Chin.

                El modelo de autobús es de uso general para las cartas y visitas, con el conductor sentado cerca del suelo y los asientos de pasajeros en una zona elevada detrás del asiento del conductor.

 Las marcas en el autobús mostrar que era propiedad de Miami Bus Service Corp.

 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration registros encontrar en línea muestran que la compañía no ha tenido violaciónes de conducción insegura o sustancias controladas y alcohol.  Asimismo, no se había reportado ningún choques en los dos años antes de Octubre 26, 2012.

 Los registros muestran que ha recibido tres citaciones relacionadas con la fatiga del conductor en abril de 2011.

 La compañía es propietaria de tres autobuses, de acuerdo con los registros.  Miami Service Bus Corp. funcionarios no respondieron de inmediato a un mensaje telefónico sábado.

 

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