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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). Since 1976, practices have also ...
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 ...
The Memorial of Jesus' Death and the Lord's Evening Meal, commonly referred to as the Memorial, is an annual celebration practiced by Jehovah's Witnesses that memorializes the death of Jesus Christ. [1] Witnesses consider it the only holiday the Bible commands Christians to observe, and because of this, it is the only holiday celebrated by most ...
St. Paul Enterprise November 7, 14, 21 and 28, 1916 articles "Regarding the Death and Burial of, and Memorial Services for, Pastor Russell" Chapter II. Organizational Beginnings: (1873–1912) Charles Taze Russell from Barbara G. Harrison's Visions of Glory: A History and a Memory of Jehovah's Witnesses, New York, Simon
The former organization headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. 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]
Jehovah's Witnesses also believe that the United Nations is the "image of the wild beast" of Revelation 13:1–18, and the second fulfilment of the "abominable thing that causes desolation" from Matthew 24:15; that it will be the means for the devastation of organized false religion worldwide; [293] [294] and that, like all other political ...
Jehovah's Witnesses' literature teaches that their refusal of transfusions of whole blood or its four primary components—red cells, white cells, platelets and plasma—is a non-negotiable religious stand and that those who respect life as a gift from God do not try to sustain life by taking in blood, [5] [6] even in an emergency. [7]
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