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Since Jehovah’s Witnesses are not allowed to accept external blood products, their view on organ donation is complicated by the medical procedure itself. [8] Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that organ donation with no transfusion of blood is an individual decision. [2] [10]
Jehovah's Witnesses' literature teaches that their refusal of transfusions of whole blood or its four primary components—red cells, white cells, platelets, and plasma—is a non-negotiable religious stand and that those who respect life as a gift from God do not try to sustain life by taking in blood, [5] [6] even in an emergency. [7]
The Witnesses' position on organ transplants has also changed over time. Concerning organ transplants and autopsies, The Watchtower stated in 1952: "Is there any Scriptural objection to . . . accepting organs for transplant from such a source? Humans were allowed by God to eat animal flesh and to sustain their human lives by taking the lives of ...
A chart of active Jehovah's Witnesses by year, 1931-2015. For 2024, around 300,000 new members were baptized. The Watch Tower Society reported that Jehovah's Witnesses conducted about 7.5 million home Bible studies with non-members, [1] including Bible studies conducted by Witness parents with their children.
Jeevanandam's program has hired bloodless coordinators to oversee the bloodless heart transplants and other procedures and verify to the Jehovah's Witnesses community that surgeries are done this way.
Jehovah's Witnesses have an active presence in most countries. These are the most recent statistics by continent, based on active members, or "publishers" as reported by the Watch Tower Society. [1] The Watch Tower Society provides 'average' and 'peak' figures for the number of active members.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is God's only direct creation, that everything else was created through him by means of God's power, and that the initial unassisted act of creation uniquely identifies Jesus as God's "only-begotten Son". [157] As part of their nontrinitarian beliefs, they do not believe that Jesus is God the Son. [158]
Raymond Franz (1922–2010), writer of Crisis of Conscience, former member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and critic of the institution. Jehovah's Witnesses have been criticized by adherents of mainstream Christianity, members of the medical community, former Jehovah's Witnesses, and commentators with regard to their beliefs and practices.