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

In 1996, John Haffert ( co-founder of the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fátima ) spoke about Fátima and his book Meet the Witnesses in which he personally interviewed nearly 200 witnesses to the Fátima Miracle of the Sun, describing their detailed witness accounts.

Witnesses spoke of the sun spinning from left-to-right in the sky and giving off various colors.

Witnesses also spoke of a dispute with local politicians and allegations of fraud in Kisumu Town Council.

In 1996, John Haffert ( co-founder of the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima ) spoke about Fatima and his book “ Meet the Witnesses ” in which he personally interviewed nearly 200 witnesses to the Fatima Miracle, describing their detailed witness accounts.

Witnesses stated Nash was unarmed and going to the aid of another when killed.

* 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.

Jehovah's Witnesses consider that the falling away from faithfulness was already complete before the Council of Nicaea, when the Nicene Creed was adopted, which then enshrined the Trinity doctrine as the central tenet of nominal " Christian " orthodoxy.

Association with those outside the organization, commonly termed by Witnesses as " worldly " and " not in the Truth ", is acceptable only when it is viewed as an opportunity to preach and Witnesses are under considerable pressure from the Society to show outsiders they are people of high moral fiber.

* Theodore Dwight Weld ( 1803 – 1895 ), the author of American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, an evangelical abolitionist who was born in town, where he lived until 1825 when his family moved to upstate New York.

Gobitas was inspired by stories of other Jehovah's Witnesses who challenged the system and suffered for it, and decided to make a stand himself and instructed his children not to pledge allegiance when at school.

Macmillan, however, related details of Rutherford's home preaching in 1905 or 1906 when he was baptized, and a 1975 article quoted several Witnesses relating their experiences with Rutherford in the house-to-house ministry in the 1920s.

In practice it seeks neither advice nor approval from other " anointed " Witnesses when formulating policies and doctrines, or when producing material for publications and conventions.

Attendance figures for Witness events include " Jehovah's Witnesses and associates "; such statistics may be cited for comparison of Witness numbers with membership figures of other religions, but only those sharing in their ministry are counted by Jehovah's Witnesses when reporting their official statistics.

" Witnesses routinely report that, when the switch is thrown, the condemned prisoner " cringes ," " leaps ," and " fights the straps with amazing strength.

In March 1838, disillusioned church members said that Harris had publicly denied that any of the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon had ever seen or handled the golden plates — although he had not been present when Whitmer and Cowdery first claimed to have viewed them — and they claimed that Harris's recantation, made during a period of crisis in early Mormonism, induced five influential members, including three Apostles, to leave the Church.

Murphy's support of African-Americans, aliens, criminals, dissenters, Jehovah's Witnesses, Native Americans, women, workers, and other outsiders evoked a pun: “ tempering justice with Murphy .” As he wrote in Falbo v. United States ( 1944 ), “ The law knows no finer hour than when it cuts through formal concepts and transitory emotions to protect unpopular citizens against discrimination and persecution .” ( p. 561 )

Without Witnesses ( 1983 ) tracks a long night's conversation between a woman ( Irina Kupchenko ) and her ex-husband ( Mikhail Ulyanov ) when they are accidentally locked in a room.

* Witnesses say that two Palestinian children were killed when the Israeli military shelled a crowd near the Jabaliya refugee camp.

Witnesses taken unawares by the incisive, unceremonious questioning, may then replace civility for discourteousness-usually when their arguments have been hit for six.

Nevertheless, as a judge, Rand was a civil libertarian who struck down restrictive covenants that barred property from being sold or rented to Jews or non-whites, acknowledged the rights of Japanese Canadians who were being interned as enemy aliens during World War II, defended the rights to free speech of the Communist Party of Canada when it was banned by the Canadian government under the War Measures Act as well as the rights of Jehovah's Witnesses being persecuted under Quebec's Padlock Law.

Witnesses testified that when she appeared at the Appellplatz, " silence fell.

One account states that in March 1838, Martin Harris publicly denied that either he or the other Witnesses to the Book of Mormon had literally seen the golden plates — although, of course, he had not been present when Whitmer and Cowdery first claimed to have viewed them.

Witnesses testified that she was with the Frank sisters during part of their time in Bergen-Belsen, but that she was not present when they died in February / March.

Witnesses stated that she was in a crouched position when she fired ; she claimed that she fired just as she stopped running toward Motley.

Others deported to Auschwitz included 150, 000 Poles, 23, 000 Roma and Sinti, 15, 000 Soviet prisoners of war, some 400 Jehovah's Witnesses and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities.

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.

American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, a volume co-authored by Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimké sisters, is also a source of some of the novel's content.

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.

Jehovah's Witnesses officially reject transfusions of whole allogeneic blood and some of its fractionated components

Though some religions interpret Job 1: 4 to indicate birthday feasts of Job's sons, Jehovah's Witnesses interpret them as a circuit of feasts from one house to the next.

Christadelphians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Old Order Amish, Rastafarians, and some other religious groups have a policy of not participating in politics through voting.

In some countries, Jehovah's Witnesses use the corporation name Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, or a similar name translated into the local language.

" While the matter was not yet established doctrine or written policy of Jehovah's Witnesses, at least some Witness families quickly made a personal conscientious decision on the matter.

In July 1985, in the state of Kerala, some of the Jehovah's Witnesses ' children were expelled from school under the instructions of Deputy Inspector of Schools for having refused to sing the national anthem, Jana Gana Mana.

To both mainstream Jewish and Christian religions, God is omnipresent ; however, some heterodox branches, such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, reject omnipresence.

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

The standard of Rutherford's accommodation and his personal conduct attracted criticism from some Bible Students and Jehovah's Witnesses in the 1930s.

They include within that category Unitarians, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ), Jehovah's Witnesses, and some of the more radical forms of Liberal Christianity.

If a small group of Witnesses is isolated by geography or language, it may have some or all of its meetings at a different time and place to the rest of the congregation, under the supervision of that congregation's body of elders.

Baptized female members may perform some of their duties only if a baptized male is unavailable ; female Witnesses leading in prayer or teaching are required to wear a head covering.

Witnesses said they were all afraid to intervene because Aguiar " might have something in his pocket ", although some people looked for rocks or boards hoping to find something to subdue him.

Annihilationist proponents include the Seventh-day Adventists, Bible Students, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, and some other Protestant Christians.

There are also some other religious groups active in the town, including Jehovah's Witnesses and several evangelical Christian organisations.

* Those groups which have Arian Christology such as Jehovah's Witnesses may identify some appearances of angels, particularly the archangel Michael, as Christophanies, but not theophanies.

Witnesses said some people simply ran around in circles trying to find their loved ones, rather than trying to escape the burning tent.

Literature departments of various congregations of the Jehovah's Witnesses in the USA report that the Watchtower Society no longer prints the American Standard Version Holy Bible nor any other Bible ( other than the Watchtower's own New World Translation and Kingdom Interlinear translations ) and thus no longer supplies them to the congregations, however some individual congregations of the Jehovah's Witnesses may still have some ASV Bibles in stock and available to the public.