Jehovah ’ s Witnesses believe that individuals do not have the power to be born again, because it is God who calls and selects his followers.

Three Witnesses besides Joseph Smith also reported that they saw Moroni in visions in 1829, as did several other witnesses who each said they had their own vision.

As a further complication, Mary Whitmer, mother to one of the Three Witnesses and four of the Eight Witnesses, said she had a vision of the golden plates, shown to her by an angel whom she always called " Brother Nephi ", who may or may not have been the same angel to which Smith referred.

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

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.

Nephi predicts the translation of the Book of Mormon and of the Three Witnesses who would testify that it was true.

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.

In 1940 the Supreme Court, in Minersville School District v. Gobitis, ruled that students in public schools, including the respondents in that case, Jehovah's Witnesses who considered the flag salute to be idolatry, could be compelled to swear the Pledge.

Prominent legal challenges in the 1950s were brought by the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group whose beliefs preclude swearing loyalty to any power other than God, and who objected to policies in public schools requiring students to swear an oath to the flag.

Jehovah's Witnesses use the terms Jonadabs or Jehonadabs to refer to Christians who hope to live forever on earth, rather than in heaven.

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 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.

Discipline within congregations is maintained by a system of judicial committees, which have the power to expel members who breach organizational rules and demand their shunning by other Witnesses.

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.

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.

Watch Tower Society publications suggest that endurance in public preaching is the means by which Witnesses attain salvation, and that evangelizing frees them from blood-guilt regarding individuals who might die at Armageddon without having heard about God's kingdom.

Baptized members who spread teachings contrary to the doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses can be disfellowshipped for apostasy.

Later he counselled conscientious objectors to compulsory military service and defended Jehovah's Witnesses in court who even refused to do community work instead of military service because of their absolute conscientious objection.

* 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.

While Jehovah's Witnesses do not consider members of their religious orders to be a clergy separate from other Witnesses, who are also ordained ministers, but they recognize that a government may consider them such for administrative purposes.

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

" Witnesses of her life and death, editors, and readers helped to finish her writings and several editions were published posthumously.

Members of certain religious groups, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, were persecuted and kicked around the country at one time.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Beginning in 1914, The Photo-Drama of Creation, promoting Jehovah's Witnesses ' conception of mankind's genesis, was screened around the United States: eight hours worth of projected visuals involving both slides and live action were synchronized with separately recorded lectures and musical performances played back on phonograph.

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.

The Watchtower has stated that the use of wedding rings by Witnesses is acceptable, even though wedding rings may have first been used by pagans, based on its conclusion that there is no definite evidence wedding rings were used " as part of false religious practices " ( emphasis from original ).

Medicine and clothing were provided to both Hutu and Tutsi Witnesses during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

In the 1920s, a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, a Finnish Lutheran Church, and a Jewish synagogue were started, all three of which no longer exist.

This case dealt with a family whose children would not salute the flag or recite the Pledge of Allegiance because of their religious beliefs ( they were Jehovah's Witnesses ).

Several members of the Jehovah's Witnesses challenged the constitutionality of the law but were defeated in Douglas v. City of Jeannette

Children of Jehovah's Witnesses had been expelled from school and were threatened with exclusion for no other cause.

Tensions were already high before this case arose and many viewed this as one way to get back at the troublesome Witnesses.

* 1980 – Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, an incident called " Britain's Roswell ".

* 14 Nisan ( after sunset ) – Lord's Evening Meal or the Memorial of the Death of Jesus Christ, also called the Lord's Supper, is the only holiday observed by the Church of God ( 7th Day ) and by every Jehovah's Witnesses.

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

The issue dated the 15th, called the Study Edition, contains " pointed information prepared especially for Jehovah ’ s Witnesses " and is generally distributed only to members but is made available to members of the public attending the study of The Watchtower at congregation meetings.

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.

The movement's origination during the Second Great Awakening parallels the founding of numerous other indigenous American religions, especially in the Burned-over district of western New York state, and in the western territories of the United States, including the Adventist movement, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science ( which had roots in Congregationalism, but regarded itself as restorative ), and the Restoration Movement ( sometimes called the " Stone-Campbell Movement ", which include the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada, the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), and the Churches of Christ ).

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 ".

Witnesses have testified that Domi called Jakobek and then parked for thirteen minutes in the underground parking garage at Toronto City Hall barely minutes after the bank withdrawal, although Jakobek has testified that he was not at city hall at all that day.

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.

The other prominent group of Book of Mormon witnesses who said they saw the plates are called the Three Witnesses.

" This council consisted of twelve men, called and ordained by the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon to the office of Apostle, and appointed to oversee the missionary work of the church — meaning that their presiding role was outside of the Stakes of Zion.

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.

Witnesses could also be called, including eye-witnesses of the crime ( gwybyddiaid ).

The Roman Catholic consists most in terms of the percentage of the population while the so called Protestants were the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, The Way of Salvation, Seventh Day Adventist and the Assemblies of God and Jehovah's Witnesses.

France's Ministry of the Interior sought to collect 60 % of donations made to the religion's entities ; Witnesses called the taxation " confiscatory " and appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.