Credit: SWNS / Ieva Brown<br /><br />An ex-Jehovah's Witness who felt "shunned" by her church after her divorce believes leaving her congregation was the best decision she's made.<br /><br />Ieva Brown, 41, joined the Jehovah's Witnesses - a Christian-based religious group - in 1996 at just 14 years old after attending a bible group in Latvia with a friend. <br /><br />After moving to England in 1999, Ieva joined a local group before marrying a non-believer - who then converted. But a decade later their marriage broke down.<br /><br />Ieva claims she felt "shunned" by her church community due to strict divorce beliefs.<br /><br />Feeling ''isolated and shamed'', Ieva says she became so stressed she was too unwell to leave the house and suffered exhaustion and anxiety. <br /><br />Ieva decided to leave the Jehovah's Witnesses in October 2018 to improve her health, she said.
