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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). Of those, around 23,200 people partook of the memorial emblems of unleavened bread and wine. [ 1 ]
The people of Saint Helena are Saint Helenians (though locally they are known as "Saints"); the demonym being Saint Helenian. A census in February 2016 recorded a population of 4,534 on the island. [4] This compares with a figure of 4,257 recorded in 2008 [5] and a figure of 5,157 recorded in 1998. The fall between 1998 and 2008 can be ...
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 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]
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.
Jehovah's Witnesses in Europe. Past and Present. Vol. 1. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-9445-6. Fautré, Willy (2019). "The Historical Process of State Recognition of the Majority Religion and a Number of Minority Religions § Enquiry Commissions on Cults in Western Europe § France". The Deterioration of Religious Liberty in ...
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that God's kingdom is a literal government in heaven, ruled by Jesus Christ and 144,000 "spirit-anointed" Christians drawn from the earth, which they associate with Jesus' reference to a "new covenant". [1]
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