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Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian denomination that is an outgrowth of the Bible Student movement founded by Charles Taze Russell in the ninteenth century. The denomination is nontrinitarian , millenarian , and restorationist . [ 8 ]
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]
Catholic Church in Australia: 23.25 Australia: Catholicism: Extrapolated figure from calculating assets and investments in the state of Victoria. [7] Seventh-day Adventist Church: 15.6 United States: Adventism: As of 1998. [8] Church of England: 13.84 United Kingdom: Anglican: Endowment funds. [9] Church of Sweden: 11.41 Sweden: Lutheran: FY2012.
[163] [164] Jehovah's Witnesses were the first Christian denomination to be banned and the most extensively persecuted Christian group during the Nazi era. [165] Witnesses in Japan were imprisoned and tortured. [166] Members in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Britain were imprisoned as conscientious objectors.
Jehovah's Witnesses base all of their beliefs on the Bible, as interpreted by the Governing Body. [53] However, Jehovah's Witnesses use the terms "Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures" and "Greek-Christian scriptures" as substitutes for "Old Testament" and "New Testament" respectively.
Christian Reformed Church in North America – 0.2 million [178] Evangelical Church in Kalimantan – 0.2 million [179] Javanese Christian Church – 0.2 million [180] Indonesian Christian Church Synod – 0.2 million [181] Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv – 0.2 million [182] Evangelical Church of Congo – 0.2 million [183]
After the denominations in the Oneness Pentecostal movement, the largest nontrinitarian Christian denominations are the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, La Luz del Mundo, and Iglesia ni Cristo.
Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, Inc. was established to organize and administer the congregational affairs of Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] It filed for incorporation on August 21, 2000, in New York State as a “ domestic non-profit corporation ” in Putnam County, New York . [ 16 ]