Deaf complain about Jehovah’s Witness church

Friday, October 9th, 2015

New Zealand’s deaf community is fed up with unsolicited house calls, claiming the Jehovah’s Witness church is targeting deaf households.

Deaf Aotearoa has received multiple complaints from around the country and says church members visited certain homes because they were aware a deaf person lived there.

The organisation released a statement on Monday, saying it was looking into the possibility the church holds a database listing the details of members of the deaf community.

Jehovah’s Witness spokesman Rod Spinks said there was no such database and deaf people were not being targeted. Continue reading

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