Looks like Jehovah has been witnessed munching on some delicious black sausages, but only ones made of his own blood, so blood cisfusions are now a-OK.
Jehovah's Witnesses has updated its policy on blood transfusions to allow members to have their own blood removed, stored, and "given back" in medical procedures.
While the change will enable members to have transfusions of their own blood - in planned surgeries, for example - they continue to be prohibited from receiving the blood of others.
Gerrit Losch, part of the group's leadership, announced the move saying "each Christian must decide for himself how his blood will be used in medical and surgical care".
Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian-based religious movement, probably best known for its door-to-door evangelism. It claims 144,000 active members in the UK, and nine million worldwide.
The group has historically ruled that members cannot accept blood transfusions, as - according to the groups website - both the Old and New Testaments "command us to abstain from blood".
(In case you're not familiar with the underlying exegesis, the JWs' "principled" opposition to blood transfusion is based on twisting the Mosaic kashrut rules that deemed blood to be unsuitable to be eaten by humans, most probably because within their historic context, it would have been pretty hard to safely preserve and cook blood, a rather perishable part of a freshly slaughtered cow, into a pretzel. Luckily, reliable ovens, refrigerators, and even freeze drying machines gave been invented since then, safe food-grade blood is now a thing, and on a completely unrelated note, safe and sometimes life-critical blood transfusions are also now a thing.)