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Literature for preaching. Jehovah's Witnesses outside the British Museum. Most literature produced by Jehovah's Witnesses is intended for use in their evangelizing work. Publications for preaching are also routinely studied by members, both privately and at their meetings for worship. Their most widely distributed publications are: New World ...
The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was released at a Jehovah's Witness convention at Yankee Stadium, New York, on August 2, 1950. [34][35] The translation of the Old Testament, which Jehovah's Witnesses refer to as the Hebrew Scriptures, was released in five volumes in 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, and 1960.
The 1970 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses noted that the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania was the organization used to plan the activity of Jehovah's Witnesses and provide them with "spiritual food", then declared: "So really the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses is the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract ...
The Watchtower. The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom is an illustrated religious magazine, published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Jehovah's Witnesses distribute The Watchtower—Public Edition, along with its companion magazine, Awake!. [1][2] The Watch Tower Society reports circulation of 21.7 million per ...
On 2 December 2014, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation banned jw.org. In August 2014, a number of websites were blocked as the war in Donbass developed, including the Ukrainian news site Glavnoe.ua , [ 27 ] a survey about the separation of the Caucasus from Russia [ 28 ] and numerous announcements and commentaries about the "march for ...
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination. [8] In 2023, the group reported approximately 8.6 million members involved in evangelism, with around 20.5 million attending the annual Memorial of Christ's death. [6][en 1] Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the destruction of the present world system at ...
Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses ' practices are based on the biblical interpretations of Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), founder (c. 1881) of the Bible Student movement, and of successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford (from 1917 to 1942) and Nathan Homer Knorr (from 1942 to 1977).
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that God uses an organization both in heaven and on earth, and that Jehovah's Witnesses, under the direction of their Governing Body, are the only visible channel by which God communicates with humanity. [28] The organization is said to be theocratic. [29] Witnesses teach that people must choose between God's ...