The series continued: The Watchtower of 1 July 1994 carried an account of fifteen-year-old Brunella Inconditi of Montreal, and Awake! of 22 January 1995 devoted five pages to Joshua Walker, fifteen, of New Brunswick, whose refusal was upheld by the New Brunswick Court of Appeal and whose death on 4 October 1994 is recorded in the article’s final line.
Claim ID claim-blood-1994-series-continuedConcerns 22 January 1995Context
The organisation’s position or later explanation: The 1995 article frames the outcome as a gain for everyone, quoting a Telegraph Journal editorial that the decision was ‘a victory not just for Jehovah’s Witnesses, but for us all’ and the Canadian Medical Association Journal on the guidelines it set.
22 January 1995 · pp.11-15 · pars. 3-4, 39-40 · Awake! correspondent in Canada · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
“Joshua died October 4, 1994.”
Eight months after the ‘Youths Who Put God First’ issue, Awake! carried a five-page account of Joshua Walker, 15, of New Brunswick, who had acute myeloid leukaemia. It quotes Chief Justice W. L. Hoyt of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal (‘The evidence here is overwhelming that Joshua is sufficiently mature’), a Telegraph Journal editorial calling the decision ‘a victory not just for Jehovah’s Witnesses, but for us all’, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The article’s final line, standing on its own, records his death.
Provenance and verification note for Awake!, Joshua’s Faith—A Victory for Children’s Rights
Confidence note. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording, page marker and paragraph confirmed against the article text.
Notes. The appeal is reported as Region 2 Hospital Corp. v. Walker (1994), 150 N.B.R. (2d) 366 (C.A.), a citation confirmed from the Supreme Court of Canada in A.C. v. Manitoba.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID.src-g94d-walker-1995
1 July 1994 · pp.29-31 · pars. 1-5 · As told by friends of Brunella Inconditi · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“Two days before she expected to symbolize her dedication by water baptism, Brunella learned that she had leukemia.”
Six weeks after the Awake! series, The Watchtower carried a comparable account of Brunella Inconditi of Montreal, who learned she had leukaemia in July 1990 at the age of 15. The current Watch Tower index tags the article ‘(blood case)’.
Provenance and verification note for The Watchtower, “I Have Observed the Faith”
Confidence note. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording, page marker and paragraph confirmed against the article text.
The organisation’s current cumulative index, covering 1986 to 2026, lists these young people by name under Canada, each tagged ‘(blood case)’, together with ‘Inconditi, Brunella (blood case): w94 7/1 29-31’ and ‘Cadoreth, April: kr 162-164’. The index also supplies the page range of each account.
Provenance and verification note for Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026, Canada (subheading ‘persons’)
Confidence note. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026, the day after the announced change to the blood position; the entries and page ranges were read from the index page itself.
Notes. The index is the organisation’s own finding aid. Its continued listing of these accounts as ‘blood case’ entries is the clearest available evidence that the 1994 and 1995 articles remain part of the published corpus.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID.src-g94d-wt-index-1986-2026-canada
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