Sociologist Andrew Holden claims his research indicated many Witnesses who would otherwise defect because of disillusionment with the organization and its teachings retain affiliation out of fear of being shunned and losing contact with friends and family members.

Sociologist Andrew Holden indicated they are highly selective in choosing with whom they spend leisure time, generally choosing the company of other Witnesses.

Harris, along with Cowdery and David Whitmer, was one of these Three Witnesses, although Joseph Smith clearly indicated that Harris's experience occurred separately from that of Whitmer and Cowdery.

Witnesses say Cabrera threatened to fight the group outside and indicated that he had a gun.

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

" 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 ".

Members of labor organizations and those perceived to be affiliated with groups ( religious, political, social and otherwise ) that opposed the regime, or were seen to have views contradictory to the goals of the Nazi government, were rounded up in large numbers ; these included clergy of all faiths, Jehovah's Witnesses, Freemasons, Communists, and Rotary Club members.

While many of these moments were baseball-related — including World Series games, no-hitters, perfect games, and historic home runs — the stadium also hosted boxing matches, concerts, Conventions of Jehovah's Witnesses ( see record attendance ), and three Papal Masses.

Central to these studies was the notion that statistically speaking, homosexuals suffered greater losses than many of the smaller minorities under Nazi persecution such as the Jehovah ’ s Witnesses and within the camps experienced harsher treatments and ostracization as well as execution at the hands of firing squads and the gas chambers.

Some modification appears to have been made in deference to these objections, but no concession was made to Jehovah's Witnesses.

The Barnettes brought suit in the United States District Court for themselves and others similarly situated asking its injunction to restrain enforcement of these laws and regulations against Jehovah's Witnesses.

The Court ruled that public schools could compel students — in this case, Jehovah's Witnesses — to salute the American Flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance despite the students ' religious objections to these practices.

Witnesses commonly offer these magazines in the course of their house-to-house ministry.

Many of these less-wealthy Copies become completely deracinated from their former lives and from world events, or else become Witnesses, who spend their time observing ( at considerable time lapse ) world events unfold, at the cost of any meaningful relationships with their fellow Copies.

Jehovah's Witnesses recognize a special class of sin for which a Christian must formally repent in prayer to God ; they term these " serious sins ".

The Númenóreans called them " the Witnesses of Manwë " and believed that these eagles had been " sent by him from Aman to keep watch upon the Holy Mountain and upon all the land ".

Additionally there are five Baptist churches, four Pentecostal churches, the Salvation Army, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints, a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, two United Reformed churches, as well as other Christian churches in addition to these.

One of these, Grant Palmer, a former director of LDS Institutes of Religion who was disfellowshipped by the LDS Church in 2004 after writing An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, argued that moderns " tend to read into Witnesses ' testimonies a rationalist perspective rather than a nineteenth-century magical mindset .... They shared a common world view, and this is what drew them together in 1829.

Among these were Lyman Johnson and his brother Luke Johnson who were among the original twelve men called on February 14, 1835, to be " Special Witnesses " or Apostles in a " Traveling High Council " of the Church, later known as the Council or Quorum of the Twelve.

As a result of these new developments, many religions have been established in the municipality like Protestantism, Catholicism, “ Iglesia ni Cristo ”, “ Aglipayan ”, “ Jehova ’ s Witnesses ”.

About 250, 000 of these were of other Christian faiths, including several Protestant denominations, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Mormons.

As reports of these attacks against Jehovah's Witnesses continued, " several justices changed their minds, and in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette ( 1943 ), the Court declared that the state could not impinge on the First Amendment by compelling the observance of rituals.

Based on these studies, he has attempted to defend the religious views of Jehovah's Witnesses — of which Furuli is a member — including their view that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians in 607 BC rather than 587 BC.

Unlike those who continued to follow only his " Alpha Gospel ", these refused to adopt any official name, although they came to be known among themselves as the " Message People " or " The Witnesses ".

Many denominations do not have any official stance on drug use, some more-recent Christian denominations ( e. g. Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah ’ s Witnesses ) discourage or prohibit the use of any of these substances.

Witnesses told Spanish investigators they saw a man who resembled Shehhi on July 17, 2001 at the Universal Studios PortAventura theme park next to Salou, Spain.

However, many people, notably Jehovah's Witnesses, believe that the wisdom in this proverb symbolizes Jesus Christ because he is later described in a similar way.

His mother, previously a member ( with David ) of the River Brethren sect of the Mennonites, joined the International Bible Students Association, which later became Jehovah's Witnesses.

Witnesses later said they had seen police batoning a figure in the doorway where McCloskey was found, although police claimed that he had been unconscious before the baton charge and may have been hit with a stone.

Prominent Bible Students A. H. Macmillan and J. F. Rutherford were both appointed pilgrims before they joined the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania ; the IBSA later adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses and renamed pilgrims as traveling overseers.

The term was first used in this way in the early 1930s, though it is now used less frequently ; Jehovah's Witnesses now usually use the terms great crowd ( people who survive Armageddon ) and other sheep ( Armageddon survivors and others resurrected later ).

Witnesses to the event claim that the bodies were first removed in ambulances and later military officials came and piled up bodies, not knowing if they were dead or alive, into the military trucks, while some say that the bodies were piled up on garbage trucks and sent to unknown destinations.

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.

Partly because of the violent reaction to its decision, including the lynching of Jehovah Witnesses according to Shawn Francis Peters in her book Judging Jehovah ’ s Witnesses: Religious Persecution And the Dawn of the Rights Revolution, the Supreme Court reversed itself a few years later.

Charles Taze Russell Founded a Bible Student Institute with its later sect now known as The Jehovah's Witnesses

Witnesses said later it could be looked upon without hurting the eyes.

Witnesses later spoke of the sun appearing to change colors and rotate like a wheel.

Woodworth was a former editor and textbook writer, and later served on the boards of several corporations of Jehovah's Witnesses until just a few years before his death in 1951 at the age of 81.

Witnesses to the event claim that the bodies were later removed in garbage trucks.

Witnesses later attested that 17 truckloads of human ashes were removed from the burning site, and scattered over the area.

Witnesses said that " the first explosion drove panicking shoppers into the path of the next blast just seconds later ".

She later became one of Jehovah's Witnesses, which she said changed her life for the better.

This group later merged with a faction led by William E. M ' Lellin whose president was David Whitmer, one of the Three Witnesses.

Later Whitmer organized his own splinter group based on his authority as one of the Three Witnesses and even later supported another group headed by his brother John.

Witnesses later suggested that she may have been bored with her life and upset at her husband's philandering.

Witnesses told detectives brought up from Toronto that they saw Smith in suspicious circumstances before a fire destroyed the debt-ridden Anglican church and that only later did he return to organize the fire fighting effort.

Witnesses later testified that Ike Clanton had spent all day, even after his arrest and disarming, threatening to gun down the Earps.

The Witnesses featured Dublin's Colm Wilkinson, later to achieve success in lead roles in The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables.