According to August 2014 business data published in the 2015 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, around the world subscription exceeded 8.2 million adherents entailed in evangelism, conference attendance exceeded 15 million, and annual Memorial attendance exceeded 19.9 million. Jehovah's Witnesses are directed by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, a group of elders in Brooklyn, New York, which establishes all teachings based on its interpretations of the Bible; they prefer to utilize their very own translation, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.
The group emerged from the Bible Student activity, established in the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell with the formation of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, with considerable business and doctrinal adjustments under the leadership of Joseph Franklin Rutherford. The name Jehovah's witnesses, was embraced in 1931 to differentiate themselves from other Bible Student teams and signify a break with the tradition of Russell's traditions.
Jehovah's Witnesses are most effectively known for their door-to-door preaching, distributing literary works such as The Watchtower and Awake! They consider usage of the name Jehovah essential for appropriate praise. Adherents commonly refer to their body of ideas as "the truth" and consider themselves to be "in the truth".
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