EUROPE

(See also Eastern Europe; lands by name)

(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)

aging population: g03 7/22 28-29

animals:

European bison (wisent): g 9/12 18; g 10/08 10-12

fossils of large: g 5/09 15-17

archaeology:

dolmens: g98 5/8 25-27

limes fortifications of Roman Empire: g04 6/22 14-17

automobiles:

traffic deaths: g88 4/22 30

aviation:

delays from inefficient air traffic control: g93 3/8 29; g90 1/8 28-29

business:

students feel ethics unnecessary: g90 9/8 29

chart “On the Road to European Unity”: g91 12/22 21

childbearing:

decline: g99 8/22 29; g95 10/22 29

children:

ignorance of origin of natural products: g00 10/8 28

illegitimate: g03 11/22 28-29; g02 5/8 28; g92 12/8 30; g88 11/8 30

climate:

hot summer (2003): g05 7/22 3

courts:

European Court of Human Rights: w25.07 30; yb12 34; yb02 13; g96 3/8 20-21

who pays court costs: g88 5/22 11

crime: g96 10/8 4

corruption: w15 1/1 3

counterfeiting goods: g 9/14 3

economic crime: g01 10/22 28

human trafficking: g 5/14 3

smuggling: g98 10/8 11-14

daily life:

how time is spent: g93 7/8 29

debt collectors in costume: g90 2/22 29

divorce: g92 2/22 29

drugs: g97 4/22 28; g88 12/8 4

crack: g89 11/8 29

marijuana: g 6/09 29

ecology:

desertification: g01 7/22 29; g94 12/22 28-29

forests dying: g87 6/22 2-10

mushrooms endangered: g94 4/22 29

national parks for endangered species: g 3/09 16-17

ozone shield depletion: g91 12/22 29

toxic waste production: g88 5/8 7

trees suffering: g93 8/8 28

employment:

national preferences: g90 11/22 28

women: g98 4/8 29

Enlightenment movement (17th-18th centuries): g89 10/8 21-22

ethnic strife: g93 10/8 28

European Commission of Human Rights:

hearing on Witness cases from Greece: jv 695

European Common Market:

surplus food: g89 10/22 28-29

European Community (1967-1993): g00 4/22 4; g91 12/22 20-24

poverty within: g93 3/8 28

European Convention on Human Rights: w11 7/15 6; w93 9/1 30

European Union (1993): g03 8/22 28; g00 4/22 4-8

European Commission: g00 4/22 7; g99 5/8 12-13; g99 10/8 28

languages: g05 11/22 28-29; g99 10/8 28

gardens: g97 4/8 6

government:

clergy rule (Middle Ages): w89 9/1 3-4

“enlightened despotism” (1700’s): w89 2/1 15

monarchy: g90 9/8 25-27

sovereign states (1648): w04 3/15 22

health and disease: g02 8/8 29

AIDS: g02 11/8 4; g90 8/22 28

Black Death (c. 1347-1351): g04 5/22 3-6; g00 2/8 22-25; g97 11/22 3

information campaign against cancer: g89 8/8 29

Polio eradicated: g03 3/8 28-29

honesty: g92 7/22 29

human rights:

torture by police: g00 12/22 28

insects:

painted lady butterfly: g 12/13 14

maps:

August 1914: g94 11/8 7

cities John Calvin lived in: w10 9/1 18

journey of Codices Grandior and Amiatinus: w01 5/1 29

migration of painted lady butterfly: g 12/13 14

Mont Blanc: g 4/10 22

Nazi concentration camps: g89 4/8 10

Pytheas explores coast (4th century B.C.E.): w10 3/1 28-29

voyage of Spanish Armada (1588): g 8/07 26

Matterhorn: g96 2/8 16-19

money:

Euro: g00 4/22 3, 5-8; g99 5/8 12-14

Mont Blanc: g 4/10 22-25

oldest tree: g86 5/8 31

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE): g97 8/22 31

population: yb09 55; yb08 57; yb07 53; yb06 61; yb05 56; yb04 43

Pytheas explores coast (4th century B.C.E.): w10 3/1 27-29

racial prejudice: g92 3/8 28

religion:

antisect lists (1997): g98 7/8 28

Christendom’s missionaries: g94 12/22 22

clergy rule (Middle Ages): w89 9/1 3-4

decline: g 2/07 4-6; w05 1/15 19; w03 4/15 3-4; w98 7/1 3; g96 4/8 3-8; g92 3/8 28-29; g92 7/8 28; g91 11/8 28; g88 2/8 12-15

European Ecumenical Assembly “Peace With Justice” (Switzerland, 1989): g90 3/22 19-20; g90 11/8 30

four main divisions: sh 313

Inquisition: sh 282-283; g86 4/22 20-23, 26

intolerance (1500’s): g02 6/22 11

minority religions restricted: g99 6/22 28; g99 12/22 29

political involvement: w91 4/1 30

Reformation: w87 10/1 23-24

youths: g98 8/8 12-13

slavery: g02 6/22 5

smoking: g04 12/8 29; g97 7/22 28

deaths from: g86 7/22 12

storms (2002): g03 8/8 3

tea: g89 9/8 15, 18-19

unification efforts: g00 4/22 3-8; w91 9/1 3-4; g91 12/22 20-24

Via Alpina (walking trails): g04 2/22 28

war:

diminished threat reflected in “doomsday clock”: g90 9/22 28

Mongol invasion (13th century): g 5/08 14

Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648): w04 3/15 20-23

what is most important in life: g91 11/8 28

World War I:

changes after: g90 11/22 19

World War II: g87 4/8 19-21

youths:

alcoholic beverages: g02 2/8 29; g01 11/22 29

Jehovah’s Witnesses

after World War II: foa article 7

closeness: foa article 7

encourage one another: foa article 7

field ministry: foa article 7

relief work: foa article 7; kr 211; g05 11/8 8

spirituality: foa article 7

annual report: yb17 66; yb16 66; yb15 65; yb14 69; yb13 64; yb12 76; yb11 64; yb10 57; yb09 55; yb08 57; yb07 53; yb06 61; yb05 56; yb04 43; yb03 51; yb99 56; yb98 57; yb96 50; yb95 49

1975: jv 501

assemblies: jv 257

before World War II:

emigrate to serve where need is greater: jv 457

oversight of work: yb91 136

branch offices: jv 373-384

awards for safety: g99 12/8 31

Central European Office: w20.10 4; yb87 128-131, 140-142, 155, 157-158

Northern European Office: yb93 88, 100; yb91 135

conventions: jv 495-496; w90 1/15 29

special conventions (2006): w07 7/1 7-10

during World War II: foa article 7

growth: jv 455

early witnessing:

emigrants return with truth: jv 428-429

emigrate to serve where need is greater: jv 429-430

Eastern Europe: yb90 255; w87 1/1 15

European Court of Human Rights: bt 200; w13 8/15 30; yb12 35; w11 8/15 20; yb10 23-24; yb09 24-28; yb08 22

13 new appeals against Russia (2011): yb12 43

asked to review repeated prosecutions of Witnesses in Russia (2001): yb09 27

asked to rule on literature issue in Azerbaijan (2010): yb11 22-23

asked to uphold freedom of worship in Azerbaijan: yb15 37; yb14 33; yb13 38; yb09 26-27

assists recognition of Witnesses in Romania (2006): yb07 25

finds against government in persecution of Witnesses in Republic of Georgia (2001/2002, 2004, 2007): w08 3/1 11; yb08 16-17; g 2/08 29; yb06 15; yb05 14; yb03 17-18; yb02 14

France taxation case (1998-2012): w25.07 26-27; kr 160; yb14 35; w13 8/15 30; yb13 34-35; w12 8/15 17; yb12 39-40; w11 8/15 20; yb10 24; yb09 27; yb08 16; yb07 24; yb06 15

number of favorable decisions: w24.06 17; w15 2/15 28

photo of U.S. legal team (2010): w25.07 27

to hear case of Witness harassment in Moscow (2003): yb04 19

to hear case of Witness rights in Türkiye (2009): yb10 23

upholds Armenian Witnesses imprisoned for neutrality (2011): w25.07 30; kr 152-153; yb14 30; yb13 37-38; g 10/13 3; w12 8/15 17; w12 11/1 29-31; yb12 34-35; yb11 21-22; yb10 17; yb08 19

upholds Austrian Witness in child-custody case (1993, 1996): yb97 15; g96 3/8 21; g93 10/8 15

upholds French Witness in child-custody case (2003): yb05 11; g04 11/22 12

upholds Greek Witness (1993): bt 200; kr 147; w98 12/1 20-21; g96 3/8 21; yb94 67-68, 110; w93 9/1 27-31; g93 8/22 29

upholds Greek Witnesses (1996): kr 159; g97 3/22 14-16

upholds Greek Witnesses (1997): g98 1/8 19-23

upholds Greek Witnesses (2000), canceling criminal record for neutrality: kr 152; yb02 15

upholds missionaries expelled from Bulgaria (2003-2004): yb05 10; yb04 18

upholds recognition of Witnesses as religion in Austria (2005, 2008, 2009): yb10 16; yb09 26; yb06 14

upholds rights of Turkish Witnesses imprisoned for conscientious objection (2011, 2014): yb15 36; yb13 36-37; yb10 23; yb07 26

upholds Russian Witnesses, ruling Moscow ban illegal (2010): kr 159; yb13 40; w12 12/15 22; yb12 40-41; w11 7/15 8-9; w11 8/15 20; yb11 28-30; yb08 255

upholds Russian Witnesses in case on meeting disruption (2004, 2007): yb13 40; yb08 250; w07 5/15 31; yb06 16

upholds Russian Witnesses in case on privacy of medical records (2013): yb14 35

upholds Witnesses in child custody cases: kr 166

growth: jv 517-518

Kingdom Halls:

lands with limited resources: g05 11/8 9

lands where work is restricted: yb87 60-61

modern history: jv 492-497

persons:

Unglaube, Willy: jv 429-430

Weber, Adolf: w94 5/1 15; jv 409-410, 561; yb87 117-120, 146

printing: jv 593

prison work: w05 12/15 9-12

relief work:

African wars (1994-1997): g05 11/8 8; w98 1/15 3-7; w98 12/1 11

reorganization after World War I: w20.10 4

video Satisfying Spiritual Thirst Among Refugees: lff lesson 21

visits by—

Russell, C. T.: jv 406-407

Rutherford, J. F.: w20.10 4