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After a three-year pandemic pause, Tri-Cities Jehovah’s Witnesses will be able to participate in their annual convention in person. The event is one of the largest convention organizations in ...
On 29 October 2023, a series of improvised explosive device (IED) blasts took place during a convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kalamassery, a suburb of Kochi, India. [1] [2] Five women, two men, and a child were killed and more than fifty other people were injured when the group was holding a Sunday morning session of their annual regional convention in southern India's Kerala state.
On 9 March 2023, a mass shooting occurred at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Alsterdorf quarter, Hamburg, Germany. The shooter, identified as Philipp Fusz, entered the building during a service and opened fire, killing six adults and an unborn child, and injuring eight others. Fusz, a former Jehovah's Witness, killed himself ...
Gunman believed to be dead was sole perpetrator, say police. 04:00, Sravasti Dasgupta. While police in Hamburg have declined to say how many people have been killed at a shooting at a Jehovah’s ...
According to the Associated Press, the Christian denomination ended all public meetings at its 13,000 congregations nationwide, a move not even done during the Spanish Flu Pandemic.
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]
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 will resume their trademark door-to-door ministry beginning Sept. 1