Since the 1990s, German courts have repeatedly denied the request of the Jehovah's Witnesses to become a corporate body under public law for various reasons, one of them being that the Jehovah's Witnesses would discourage their members from taking part in state elections, and would not respect the Grundgesetz.

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.

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

Witnesses gave contradictory accounts about the number of men seen near the tracks and numbers of shots fires.

Witnesses living abroad gave evidence remotely by a video satellite link-up.

Witnesses gave testimony that prior to the shooting, Bellamy made many harassing phone calls to Sadler, and numerous threats on his life.

After Joseph Smith had selected the council of the Twelve Apostles from among the veterans of Zion's Camp, the Three Witnesses " called out the twelve men and gave each one a blessing.

Several cases involving the Witnesses gave the Court the opportunity to rule on the application of the Free Exercise Clause.

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

Witnesses testified in court that Dula had made the incriminating statement that he was going to " do in " whoever gave him " the Pock " ( syphilis ).

Jehovah's Witnesses could not refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds, as the Cuban Healthcare system gave no right to refuse treatment ( even on religious or animal rights grounds ).

Witnesses gave highly conflicting testimony of what occurred and who started the fight, but what is not in doubt is that Hookes fell to the ground, hitting his head in the process, and going into cardiac arrest.

Witnesses in settlements near the scenes of the robberies described seeing a polite, friendly man in his fifties, about five foot eight or ten in height with brownish gray hair, a fierce gray mustache and matching goatee, carrying a bedroll ( which Hume correctly inferred carried his duster, sack disguise, shotgun and loot ), passing through on foot and quickly disappearing.

Witnesses have stated that on 4 November German soldiers carried explosives into the town hall's tower, and also into two churches, a windmill, and dairy factory in Heusden.

Since 1997, Jehovah's Witnesses ' official web sites have carried articles formatted for the Internet, and began hosting digital downloads in 2008.

Witnesses say that she abused many of the prisoners with a special whip she carried.

In 2006, one out of 221 people were Jehovah's Witnesses.

Witnesses who were not called to the Widgery Tribunal stated that Wray was calling out that he could not move his legs before he was shot the second time.

Witnesses pointed out the killer to a policeman, who refused to make an arrest.

Witnesses stated that as it collapsed, there was a loud rumbling sound, like a machine gun as the rivets shot out of the tank, and that the ground shook as if a train were passing by.

Witnesses believe that exactly 144, 000 men and women will reign with Jesus Christ in heaven, out of all Christians who have died since Jesus ' resurrection.

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.

Witnesses are instructed to fill out monthly report slips on their preaching activity, listing the hours spent, publications placed with householders, and the number of " return visits " made to households where interest had been shown formerly.

Witnesses have, in the past, used a wide variety of methods to spread their faith, including information marches, where members wore sandwich boards and handed out leaflets, to sound cars ( car-mounted phonographs ), and syndicated newspaper columns and radio segments devoted to sermons.

Witnesses have said Crack tried to reach out to his friends because he felt the psychosis starting again.

One Southern sheriff told a reporter why Witnesses were being run out of town: " They're traitors ; the Supreme Court says so.

In 1993, the Supreme Court of the Philippines held that exemption may be accorded to Jehovah's Witnesses with regard to the observance of the flag ceremony out of respect for their religious beliefs.

Witnesses at both stations swore nobody was seen getting in or out of the compartment, and witnesses in both adjacent compartments swore that nobody had tried to enter the one where Mlle.

Witnesses could possibly be seeing orangutans ; however: 1 ) this species has long been thought to have died out in all but the northern regions of Sumatra and 2 ) witnesses almost never describe the animal as having orange fur.

The sale of Jehovah's Witnesses ' literature was gradually phased out in other countries, and The Watchtower has been distributed free of charge worldwide since January 2000, its printing being funded by voluntary donations from Jehovah's Witnesses and members of the public.

The sale of Jehovah's Witnesses ' literature was gradually phased out in other countries, and Awake!

Witnesses did not see the plane make any moves to pull out of the dive.

According to the 2001 census there are 14, 860 believers in the town ( 56. 2 % of the population ), out of whom 8, 916 ( 60 %) are Roman Catholics, 737 ( 5 %) Czech Brethren, 356 ( 2. 4 %) Jehovah's Witnesses and 1, 709 ( 11. 5 %) others, mainly Lutherans.

Witnesses further reported that intense military presence, most notably the United States Army, secured the area, ordered civilians out, and then removed the object on a flatbed truck.

Birringer has been contributing editor with PAJ Performing Arts Journal and a contributor to numerous theatre / performance and art journals as well as the newsletter for the Bahá ' í Association For the Arts from 1994 ( Review: Witnesses of existence-Report on a presentation of art out of Sarajevo in New York City Kunsthalle ).

Witnesses stated that Chapman never moved to get out of the way of the ball, and it is assumed he simply couldn't see it.

KGB officials infiltrated the Jehovah's Witnesses organization in the Soviet Union, mostly to seek out hidden caches of theological literature.

In 1939, the Supreme Court decided Schneider v. Town of Irvington, in which it struck down anti-littering laws that were enforced only against Jehovah's Witnesses who were handing out pamphlets.

Witnesses spoke of instances when some of the parishioners and choir members behaved in a rude and tactless manner and did not carry out Archbishop Anatoly ’ s instructions when he was celebrating.

Camp prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union — Jews, non-Jewish Poles and Slovenes, religious and political prisoners, Roma and Sinti, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, criminals, homosexuals, and prisoners of war — worked primarily as forced labor in local armament factories.

The Watchtower told Witnesses: " It is proper to cover over our arrangements for the work that God commands us to do.

Witnesses testified that Frizer and Marlowe had earlier argued over the bill, exchanging " divers malicious words.

For example, Jehovah's Witnesses use a form of the name in over 400 languages.

Witnesses from many different backgrounds have reported seeing Orang Pendek over the last hundred years.

Greece has a long history of conflict, mostly with Jehovah's Witnesses but also with some Pentecostals over its laws on proselytism.

Witnesses prefer the term " Kingdom Hall " over " church ", noting that the term often translated " church " in the Bible refers to the congregation of people rather than a structure.

Jehovah's Witnesses attach no special significance to a Kingdom Hall wedding over a secular service, and Witness couples may choose to be married elsewhere for personal or practical reasons.

Places of worship shut down or relocated over the past 20 years include the United Reformed church, the Kingdom Hall ( Jehovah's Witnesses ) and an independent charismatic church called simply Prescot Christian Fellowship.

Other deportation campaigns were directed towards the ethnic Germans ( whose number decreased from over 81, 000 in 1930 to under 4, 000 in 1959 due to voluntary wartime migration and forced removal as collaborators after the war ) and religious minorities ( 700 families, especially Jehovah's Witnesses, were deported to Siberia in April 1951 under the plan " Operation North ").

During the Great Awakenings interdenominational evangelicalism and Pentecostalism emerged, along with new Protestant denominations such as Adventism, and non-denominational movements such as the Restoration Movement ( which over time separated into the Churches of Christ, the Christian churches and churches of Christ, and the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ )), the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, commonly referred to as Jehovah's Witnesses, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also commonly referred to as Mormonism.

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

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that New Jerusalem is made up of anointed Christians serving in heaven as Kings and Priests over the earth.

The stadium has also been used annually for over 50 years to host Conventions of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Witnesses reported a light moving slowly over Sacramento on the evening of November 17 at an estimated 1, 000 foot elevation.

The Jehovah's Witnesses first started using the building in 2005, after rumors of demolition for the Pontiac Silverdome raised concern over where meetings would be held, as the Silverdome was the previous venue.

The number of Jehovah's Witnesses increased greatly over this period, with a KGB estimate of around 20, 000 in 1968.

The " Witnesses " were chosen to watch over the battle between the executors and the obstructors.

The Jehovah's Witnesses missionaries were so successful that they have become the second largest Christian denomination in Japan, with over 210, 000 members ( the largest is Catholicism with about 500, 000 members ).

Among other widely-used translations only Robert Young's Literal Translation, the American Standard Version ( 1901 ), and the Jehovah's Witnesses ' New World Translation ( 1950 ) have followed this practice ( the latter introducing the Name in their New Testament over 200 times, though not occurring in the extant koine Greek text ).

Thousands of volunteers, Jehovah's Witnesses, worked over a nine-month period to renovate and clean the theater back to its original beauty and splendor, for its first assembly in August 1985.