Jehovah’s in bid to block Irish blog hosting secret documents

Lawyers at the organisation’s headquarters in New York have been trying to find out who runs the blog for more than a year

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are trying to block a blog run by an Irish man from publishing hundreds of internal memos related to the religion’s handling of allegations of child sex abuse worldwide.

Lawyers at the organisation’s headquarters in New York – known as the Watch Tower – have been attempting to discover the identity of the person behind the blog for more than a year now.

The Watch Tower is also trying to ...