Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protestants contend that the official attitude "contravenes the principles of religious liberty." Colombians often reply that the mainland Protestant missionaries, notably the bell-ringing Jehovah's Witnesses, start the trouble by being offensively aggressive in 100% Catholic areas. But that argument hardly applied to the islands, where last week 600 Protestant children had no classrooms to go to except in a few crowded government schools taught by Capuchin friars...
...Jehovah's Witnesses lay claim to draft exemption on the ground that they are ministers. Last week the U.S. Supreme court backed up one of them in a 6-to-3 decision. What applied to George Lewis Dickinson of Coalings, California, does not necessarily apply to all Witnesses. Justice Tom C. Clark carefully pointed out in his majority opinion, but neither should "a legitimate minister . . . be, for the purposes of the [Selective Service] Act, unfrocked simply because all members of his sect base an exemption claim on the dogma of his faith...
...eight-day convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in New York City broke two Witness records for: 1) mass baptism, with 4,640 new members immersed in five hours; 2) assembly attendance, with some 116,802 packed in and around Yankee Stadium, and another 49,027 in a tent-and-trailer camp across the river in New Jersey...
...largest religious gathering in the United States" got under way this week when Jehovah's Witnesses swept down upon New York City for their 19th convention. There were some 125,000 of them...
Witness President Nathan H. Knorr of Brooklyn set off the eight full days of song, prayer and preachment in Yankee Stadium with a fiery sermon. "Jehovah's Witnesses are one united flock!" he cried. "They will follow their King-Shepherd in His pastoral work until all of His sheep of this generation have been found and gathered out of all nations into the one flock, there safely to abide and attain endless life in Jehovah's new world...