• hundred Jehovah's Witnesses in the country at the time. Since the deregistration of the Singapore Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, all Witnesses who refuse...
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  • activities for Jehovah's Witnesses. In 1972, the Singapore government de-registered and banned the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses on the grounds that...
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    Jehovah's Witnesses are a religious group that grew out of the Bible Student movement founded by Charles Taze Russell in the nineteenth century. Jehovah's...
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  • Jehovah's Witnesses have an active presence in most countries. These are the most recent statistics by continent, based on active members, or "publishers"...
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  • Jehovah's Witnesses employ various levels of congregational discipline as formal controls administered by congregation elders. Members who engage in conduct...
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  • Singapore government de-registered and banned the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Singapore on the grounds that its members refuse to perform military...
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  • de-registered, but not banned, by the government, most notably the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) in 1972 because of their opposition to military service which is...
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    Chan Hiang Leng Colin v Public Prosecutor (category Jehovah's Witnesses litigation)
    for Jehovah's Witnesses, who are very few in number. Article 15 of the Constitution of Singapore Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Singapore Undesirable...
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    Rights Facts: Jehovah's Witnesses in Uzbekistan". "Jehovah's Witness Delegation Visits Uzbekistan | Eurasianet". European Association of Jehovah's Christian...
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  • priority over the rest. In 1972 the Singapore government de-registered and banned the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Singapore. The Singaporean government...
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    people over the age of 5, according to the 2000 census, including Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons who are usually considered to be non-Protestant and part...
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    Beginning in 1993, Witness missionaries from Germany were assigned to Russia to support the local members. By 2014, Jehovah's Witnesses reported over...
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    Jehovah's Witnesses. In Chan Hiang Leng Colin v. Public Prosecutor (1994), the Minister of Home Affairs had deregistered the Jehovah's Witnesses by Order...
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  • Russian Orthodox Church, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Non-Christian minority religions in Cuba include Hinduism...
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    profess no religion. Singapore has freedom of religion, although the government restricts some religions such as Jehovah's Witnesses, due to their opposition...
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    been subject to varying degrees of restriction, most notably the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) and the Unification Church (UC, "Moonies"), who are deemed as...
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    28,544 in 2020, up from 20,202 in 2016. The Orthodox Church has experienced a 235% increase in membership from 2010 to 2020. Jehovah's Witnesses is the...
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    conscripted. Most convicts are Jehovah's Witnesses, who are usually sentenced to three years' imprisonment in the Singapore Armed Forces Detention Barracks...
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    Toba of northern Sumatra (1878 in Batak script and 1885 in Latin script) Jehovah's Witnesses also translate their Bible in Batak Toba. It is called Bibel...
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  • (a form of Shia Sufism) 2%. Other groups present include Bahá'ís, Jehovah's Witnesses, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)...
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    Christian pacifism (category Christian ethics in the Bible)
    AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU. "Categories of Prisoners – Jehovah's Witnesses". Retrieved February 15, 2019. "Knocking | Jehovah's Witnesses | Independent Lens". PBS. Retrieved...
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    depicted Jehovah's Witnesses as a cult, extremist, and engaging in mind control. Jehovah's Witnesses were legalized in the Soviet Union in 1991; victims...
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  • health and morality. In 1972 the Singapore government de-registered and banned the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Singapore on the grounds that its...
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  • Court in Chan Hiang Leng Colin could have done was to take into account various factors such as the number of Jehovah's Witnesses in Singapore and whether...
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  • Translation of the Holy Scriptures, the primary Bible translation used by Jehovah's Witnesses The World Tomorrow (magazine) or The New World, a 1918-1934 political...
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  • Latter-day Saints, the Unification Church, Christian Science, and Jehovah's Witnesses. Some Protestants classify the Catholic Church as a cult. Some also...
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  • tolerant. Jehovah's Witnesses reported that judges sentenced them to longer prison terms for evasion of alternative military service than in the past,...
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    the work of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Paraguay. Legal recognition was approved on August 8, 1991 In 2020, the number of Jehovah's Witnesses was 11,051 active...
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    Saints, Philippine Independent Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Apostolic Catholic Church, United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Members Church of God...
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    service in 1997, hundreds of Witnesses were imprisoned, some for three years or even more for their refusal. In Armenia, young Jehovah's Witnesses were imprisoned...
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