Jehovah's Witness News

Thousands of people are expected to attend the last day of a three-day religious convention in downtown Rochester, where the program today will focus on how to survive what organizers believe is the approaching end of the world.

About 4,900 Jehovah's Witnesses from west Georgia, east Alabama and north Florida are meeting in Columbus this weekend.

With this column, I'm defying the advice my first managing editor - the late, great Peter Godfrey - gave me some seven years ago.

"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come," so says Matthew 24:42. That piece of scripture, cited from the New International Version of the Bible, is the foundation of this year's "Keep on the Watch" Jehovah's Witnesses district convention scheduled to begin today at the Roanoke Civic Center.

Will Michael Jackson's Funeral Be Jehovah's Witness - or Muslim? Today 11:08 AM PDT by Leslie Gornstein Weren't the Jackson family Jehovah's Witnesses? How will that affect the funeral? - Bet Other fans are asking me similar questions, but instead wondering whether Michael Jackson 's funeral may be Muslim.

The risk of maternal mortality and serious maternal complications is markedly increased in Jehovah's Witnesses, who often refuse transfusion of blood or one of its components based on their interpretation of biblical texts, according to findings published in the July issue of BJOG.

The second of three conventions planned in Loveland by the Jehovah's Witnesses begins Friday at the Budweiser Event Center, where 5,000 people are expected to attend each of the three days.

More than 8,000 people from around the East Midlands and Lincolnshire gathered in Nottingham to attend a three-day convention for Jehovah's witnesses.

Parents who shun medicine for their sick children and turn instead to religion for healing have embraced faiths like Pentecostalism, Christian Science and Jehovah's Witnesses for decades.

Nearly 3, 000 Jehovah's Witnesses attended this region's annual convention at the Moncton Coliseum this weekend.

On Thursday night, as in years past, an expected 200 Jehovah's Witnesses will go to Mayo Civic Center and busy themselves cleaning Taylor Arena before starting a three-day convention.

On the floor of the Macon Coliseum, opposite the stage where a speaker commands the attention of the 4,000 or so people seated Friday morning, a handful of men work the lost-and-found station.

Jehovah's Witnesses, traveling in twos, are familiar sights in many metro Atlanta neighborhoods, knocking on doors and handing out religious literature.

Contractors, construction machinery, power generators and RV trailers are strewn about a 30-acre construction site on South Parker Road.

Around the globe there is a thrilling movement toward unity of worship. It is bringing together millions of people of all nations, tribes and languages.

"Keep on the watch" is the theme for this year's annual district conventions by the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Birth: Michael Jackson 's mother, Katherine, said when he was born in 1958 that he had "a funny-looking head, big brown eyes, and long hands," biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli writes in Michael Jackson: The Magic & The Madness .

Published: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 12:27 a.m. Christians and non-Christians alike are welcome to "Keep on the Watch" at a free religious convention hosted by the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses starting today at the O'Connell Center.

A young Jehovah's Witness who says a forced blood transfusion violated her Charter rights learns Friday whether the courts can veto the wishes of "mature minors" when their health is at risk.

Common decency says you should always leave a place cleaner than you found it, and the Jehovah's Witnesses takes that to heart.