Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists, though they have among the strictest rules on how to conduct their lives, teach that sinners are destroyed rather than tortured forever.

There are also places of worship in George Town for Jehovah's Witnesses, and followers of Bahá ' í Faith.

Jehovah's Witnesses do not eat blood products and are known for their refusal to accept blood transfusions based on not " eating blood ".

Ecumenical councils are not recognised by nontrinitarian churches such as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( and other denominations within Mormonism ), Jehovah's Witnesses, and Unitarians.

Hence, the wine and the bread are merely symbols ( sometimes referred to as " emblems "), but they have a profound meaning for Jehovah's Witnesses.

" Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, and others have taught that the dead are unconscious ( or even nonexistent ), awaiting their destiny on Judgment Day.

" Concurrently with these exceptions, Jehovah's Witnesses in their literature and assemblies have taught their leadership was personally chosen by Jesus Christ in 1919 ( a prophetic year in JW eschatology ) and that they are " God's sole channel on earth ", and " Jehovah's spirit directed organization ".

Some evangelicals are doubtful if the Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy are still valid manifestations of the Church and usually reject religious ( typically restorationist ) movements rooted in 19th century American Christianity, such as Mormonism ; also Christian Science, or Jehovah's Witnesses as not distinctly Christian.

Severe measures are directed toward religious sects that have not been able to establish official ties of state recognition, especially Baptists, Pentecostals, Seventh-day Adventists, Hare Krishna, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Bahá ' ís.

Others are mostly Pentecostals, Evangelicals, Seventh-day Adventists, Lutherans and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Similarly, Jehovah's Witnesses assert that many actions classified as patriotic by Protestant groups, such as saluting a flag, are equivalent to worship and are therefore considered idolatrous as well.

The practices of Jehovah's Witnesses are based on the Bible teachings of Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Bible Student movement, and successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford and Nathan Homer Knorr.

Witnesses are assigned to a congregation in which " territory " they reside and are expected to attend weekly meetings as scheduled by the Watch Tower Society and congregation elders.

Jehovah's Witnesses are taught that this is the only celebration the Bible commands Christians to observe.

Jehovah's Witnesses only record the number of " partakers " at this public event, no list is published of the number of baptized Witnesses who are actually considered to be authentic members of this " remnant.

These are held either in Assembly Halls owned by Jehovah's Witnesses, or in rented facilities, such as public auditoriums.

Once a year, Jehovah's Witnesses gather at larger assemblies called " District Conventions " which are usually three days long ( Friday to Sunday ).

Jehovah's Witnesses are known for their preaching from house to house

Jehovah's Witnesses believe they are under obligation to God to " give witness " by participating in organized and spontaneous evangelizing and proselytizing work, with baptism permitted only for those who demonstrate " regular and zealous " participation.

In addition to taking part in organized door-to-door preaching, Witnesses are taught that they should seek opportunities to " witness informally " by starting conversations with people they meet during routine activities such as shopping or on public transport, and directing the conversation towards their beliefs.

Witnesses are urged to minimize their social contact with non-members because of perceived dangers of worldly association.

In 1937, the door-to-door preaching program was extended to formally include " back calls " on interested people and Witnesses were urged to start one-hour Bible studies in the homes of householders.

In 1938 he urged adherents to delay marriage and child-bearing until after Armageddon, which Wills claims prompted a strong community bias among Witnesses against marriage.

* Some members of Jehovah's Witnesses, based on the group's chronology, believed that Armageddon would occur in 1975 and a few of them sold their houses and businesses to prepare for the new world paradise which they believed would be created when Jesus establishes God's Kingdom on Earth.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Like Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists use key phrases from the Bible, such as " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten " ( Eccl.

Jehovah's Witnesses occasionally use the terms " afterlife " and " hereafter " to refer to any hope for the dead, but they understand Ecclesiastes 9: 5 to preclude common views of afterlife:

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that death is the price for sinning.

The Bible-based name Jehovah's Witnesses identifies these Christians as a ' people for God's name.

Jehovah's Witnesses believe the bread stands for Jesus Christ's body which he gave on behalf of mankind, and that the wine stands for his blood which redeems from sin.

Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.

It also concerns me that once the pork barrel is filled, suddenly the Church of Scientology, the Jehovah Witnesses, the various and many denominations and religious groups — and I don't say those words in a pejorative way — begin applying for money — and I don't see how any can be turned down because of their radical and unpopular views.

But for the last 25 years, status of the " Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee " has been very much controversial, as Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman always use to refuse the " Witnesses " ( Shahadats ) from other sects.

Witnesses attest that " flame queens ", hustlers, and gay " street kids "— the most outcast people in the gay community — were responsible for the first volley of projectiles, as well as the uprooting of a parking meter used as a battering ram on the doors of the Stonewall Inn.

Witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations were invited to give statements about their experiences, and some were selected for public hearings.

* Witnesses ' Waltz by Leslie Fish – 1986 Pegasus Award Winner for Best Original Song, about watching the Space Shuttles launch

" A study by Rüdiger Lautmann found that 60 % of gay men in concentration camps died, as compared to 41 % for political prisoners and 35 % for Jehovah's Witnesses.

If, however, a convert comes from a Christian confession that baptizes in the name of Jesus ( such as Oneness Pentecostals ), from one which practices an invalid, non-Trinitarian baptism ( such as Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses ) or from one that does not practice baptism at all ( such as Quakers or The Salvation Army ), baptism is a prerequisite for chrismation-an initiate must always be validly baptized into the death of Jesus in the name of the Holy Trinity before any further holy mysteries or sacraments of initiation can be administered.

Jehovah's Witnesses also teach that Jesus ' statements regarding his disciples being separate from the world at,, and demonstrates that it is Jesus ' intention that his disciples follow the pattern he set for them, as he said at.

Her mother was raised a Roman Catholic, briefly converted to Judaism, then became a Buddhist, and later joined Jehovah's Witnesses until she was disfellowshipped for taking a blood transfusion.

* Ex-Jehovah's Witness Forum and Recovery Site A support and recovery group for former Jehovah's Witnesses, where by leaving the JWs, have lost any contact with family or friends to due policies of the JW organization.

Sociologist Andrew Holden claims meetings create an atmosphere of uniformity for Witnesses, intensify their sense of belonging to a religious community, and reinforce the plausibility of the organization's belief system.