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Their official statistics indicate membership according to various territories—which they refer to as "lands"—many of which are not independent countries. According to official statistics, about 21 million people worldwide attended Jehovah's Witnesses' 2024 observance of the Memorial of Christ's death (also termed the Lord's Evening Meal).
Jehovah's Witnesses were considered a threat because their beliefs did not conform to socialist standards and their members sometimes had contact with the West. [371] In 2023, there was a mass shooting in Hamburg that targeted Jehovah's Witnesses, killing six people. Police were warned about the shooter ahead of time, but failed to take action.
In 2016, Jehovah's Witnesses had the lowest average household income among surveyed religious groups, with approximately half of Witness households in the United States earning less than $30,000 a year. [5] As of 2016, Jehovah's Witnesses are the most racially diverse Christian denomination in the United States. [6]
Since most of the people of Iran follow the Shia religion, most of the official and unofficial laws of this country are influenced by the Shia religion. Before the 1979 revolution , there were laws in Iran that allowed religious minorities to participate in elections, have representatives in the parliament, and even reach the highest government ...
Jehovah's Witnesses have an active presence in most countries. These are the most recent statistics by continent, based on active members, or "publishers" as reported by the Watch Tower Society. [1] The Watch Tower Society provides 'average' and 'peak' figures for the number of active members.
In all, Jehovah's Witnesses brought 23 separate First Amendment actions before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1938 and 1946. [36] [37] Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone once quipped, "I think the Jehovah's Witnesses ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties." [38]
In 1990, 68 Jehovah’s Witness elementary students were expelled for refusing to participate in daily flag-raising ceremonies. In Ebralinag, et al. vs. Division Superintendent of Schools of Cebu, the court ruled that Jehovah's Witnesses are permitted to refrain from saluting the Philippine flag and singing the national anthem.
No data is publicly available that shows the information the chart is purporting to indicate. The 1992 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses is the first to provide grand totals for 1991. Among the sums, it includes peak publishers, average publishers, memorial attendance, and memorial partakers worldwide. All yearbooks since 1992 provide this ...