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As of 2016, there were about 96,000 active Jehovah's Witnesses in Cuba (about 0.85% of the population). [33] [34] From 1938 to 1947, the number of Jehovah's Witnesses in Cuba increased from about 100 to 4,000. [35] After World War II, membership in Cuba increased to 20,000, [35] and by 1989 there were approximately 30,000 members. [36]
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]
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.
Jehovah’s Witnesses will resume their trademark door-to-door ministry beginning Sept. 1; the two-and-a-half-year suspension of the work will end just in time for the launch of a global campaign ...
Cuba’s Ministry of Interior, which manages the police and the state security apparatus, led the violent crackdown on Cubans who protested against the government throughout the island in July 2021.
Jehovah's Witnesses' activities in China are considered illegal. Former Canadian-American Jehovah's Witness missionary Amber Scorah recounted the lengths that she and her husband went through to preach illegally in China in the early 2000s. She describes how local Jehovah's Witnesses were forced to meet secretly in a different location every ...
A chart of active Jehovah's Witnesses by year, 1931-2015. For 2024, around 300,000 new members were baptized. The Watch Tower Society reported that Jehovah's Witnesses conducted about 7.5 million home Bible studies with non-members, [1] including Bible studies conducted by Witness parents with their children.
Jose Daniel Ferrer, the leader of one of the largest banned anti-government groups in Cuba, was released two days after a surprise flurry of diplomatic activity involving the communist-run island ...