Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses
Clessification	Nontrinitarian, restorationist
Govrenance	Govrenin Bouk
Structur	Hierarchical
Region	Warldwide
Foonder	Charles Taze Russell
Oreegin	1870s ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanie, US
Branched frae	Bible Student muivement
Congregations	119,485
Members	8.6 million
Offeecial wabsteid	www.jw.org/gd/
	Stateestics frae 2017 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination wi nontrinitarian beliefs distinct frae mainstream Christianity.^[4]

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↑ "Court Trial Testimony Redwood City" (PDF). Superior Court of the State of California. 22 Februar 2012. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 13 Mey 2014. Retrieved 29 Apryle 2017. I am general counsel for the National Organization of Jehovah's Witnesses out of Brooklyn, New York. ... We are a hierarchical religion structured just like the Catholic Church.
↑ Stanley I. Kutler, ed. (2003). "Jehovah's Witnesses". Dictionary of American History (3rd ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-80533-7.
↑ "2019 Service Year Report Includes Largest Baptismal Figure in 20 Years". Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
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Soorces for descriptors:
- Millenarian: Beckford, James A. (1975). The Trumpet of Prophecy: A Sociological Study of Jehovah's Witnesses. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. pp. 118–119, 151, 200–201. ISBN 0-631-16310-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Restorationist: Stark; Iannaccone, Laurence; et al. (1997). "Why Jehovah's Witnesses Grow So Rapidly: A Theoretical Application". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 12 (2): 133–157. doi:10.1080/13537909708580796.
- Christian: "Religious Tolerance.org". Archived frae the original on 11 Mey 2000. Retrieved 29 Apryle 2017. "Statistics on Religion".World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York, NY: Infobase Learning. 2011. pp. 704–705. ISBN 978-1-60057-133-6.
- Denomination: "Jehovah's Witnesses at a Glance"."The American Heritage Dictionary"."Memorial and Museum AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU".