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Former headquarters of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in Brooklyn, New York. Jehovah's Witnesses operate 87 branch offices worldwide, [24] under the oversight of headquarters representatives who visit each of their assigned branches every few years, auditing operations, counseling branch committee members, department heads, and missionaries, and reporting back to the Governing Body.
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom (public edition) (reduced from 32 pages to 16 pages as of 2013) The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom (public edition) (monthly as of 2008) The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom (four-color edition as of 1986) The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom (title change, March 1, 1939)
The Watchtower article announcing the view is interpreted by commentators as a prohibition. [ 238 ] [ 239 ] In a 1972 article, Jehovah's Witnesses are described as having taken a "stand" against organ transplants, saving them from the consequences of such operations, on the basis of the description of the procedure as "a form of cannibalism".
Their best known publications are the magazines, The Watchtower and Awake! [1] Zion's Watch Tower was first published by Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Bible Student movement, in 1879, [2] followed by the inception of the Watch Tower Society in 1881. [3] Supporters adopted the name Jehovah's witnesses in 1931. [4]
The Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses is the ruling council of Jehovah's Witnesses, [1] based in the denomination's Warwick, New York, headquarters.The body formulates doctrines, oversees the production of written material for publications and conventions, and administers the denomination's worldwide operations.
The weekend meeting, usually held on Sunday, comprises a 30-minute public talk by a congregation elder or ministerial servant [16] and a one-hour question-and-answer study of a Bible-based article from The Watchtower magazine, [9] with questions prepared by the Watch Tower Society and the answers provided in the magazine. [17]
The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania is a non-stock, not-for-profit organization [4] headquartered in Warwick, New York.It is the main legal entity used worldwide by Jehovah's Witnesses to direct, administer, and disseminate doctrines for the group and is often referred to by members of the denomination simply as "the Society".
A B Tower (German: B-Turm, short for Beobachtungsturm) was a type of watchtower used by the East German Border Guards. These towers were built to a standard design and made of precast concrete sections and referred to by the abbreviations "BT 4x4", "BT 9" or "BT 11" - the older Type 11 was cylindrical; the later Type 9 had a square floor plan ...