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Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate religious holidays such as Christmas and Easter, nor do they observe birthdays, national holidays, or other celebrations they consider to honor people other than Jesus. They believe that these and many other customs have pagan origins or reflect nationalistic spirit.
They celebrate it once per year, noting that it was instituted on the Passover, an annual festival. [25] They observe it on Nisan 14 according to the ancient Jewish lunisolar calendar . [ 26 ] Jehovah's Witnesses are taught that this is the only celebration the Bible commands Christians to observe. [ 27 ]
In 1990, 68 Jehovah’s Witness elementary students were expelled for refusing to participate in daily flag-raising ceremonies. In Ebralinag, et al. vs. Division Superintendent of Schools of Cebu, the court ruled that Jehovah's Witnesses are permitted to refrain from saluting the Philippine flag and singing the national anthem.
[181] [182] Birthday celebrations were described as "objectionable" in 1951 because of their pagan origins, [183] and other explicit rules regarding acceptable conduct among members were introduced, with a greater emphasis placed on disfellowshipping as a disciplinary measure. [184]
Could things have been different for Michael Jackson had he stayed close to church? Katherine Jackson, a devout Jehovah’s Witness, raised all 10 of her children in the Jehovah’s Witness faith ...
Children and their mothers celebrate their birthdays in the same month more often than could be explained by chance, found the study; so do siblings. Fathers experience the same effect with their ...
Feb. 29—PLATTSBURGH — North Country residents Bonnie Black, Cindy Jennett, Sara Welch Munson and Bruce Kokernot are among the 5 million people globally celebrating their Leap Year births today ...
The former organization headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that God uses an organization both in heaven and on earth, and that Jehovah's Witnesses, under the direction of their Governing Body, are the only visible channel by which God communicates with humanity. [28]