{"id":1032,"date":"2012-09-03T06:49:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T06:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2012\/09\/03\/jehovahs-witnesses-fastest-growing-christian-group-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2012-09-03T06:49:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T06:49:31","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-fastest-growing-christian-group-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/jehovahs-witnesses-fastest-growing-christian-group-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses: Fastest Growing Christian Group in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The \u00a0Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches statistics listed the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses as the fastest growing Christian group in the US for 4 years in a row (the 2008-2011 Yearbooks). \u00a0The 2011 Yearbook reported a 4.37% growth rate (based on 2010 membership figures). According to the 2012 Yearbook, the growth of the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses was 1.85%, falling into 4th place. \u00a0The Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention reported a decline in membership. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The group with the largest growth rate listed in the 2012 yearbook was the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, showing a 20% increase; however, according to a footnote in the yearbook, unlike the other churches, that growth reflects figures for that group going back a several years, to 2006, not a 1-year percentage change. \u00a0If ranked by the one-year percentage, the Assemblies of God denomination would be in first place with a 3.99% gain, better than the average less than 1-percent gain in prior years. \u00a0Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses would then be in 3rd place; and the National Baptist Convention on 2nd place with a 3.95% increase reported in the 2012 Yearbook (the National Baptist Convention reported decreases or no increases in the prior 4 years).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0When adding all percentage figures in the last 4 years, the fastest growing Christian church is the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses with a 10.37% growth rate increase, and the Assemblies of God falls in 2nd place with a 6.74% increase. Most of the other major churches, especially mainline Protestant churches, have consistiently reported decreases in the last 4 years.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a0Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches statistics listed the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses as the fastest growing Christian group in the US for 4 years in a row (the 2008-2011 Yearbooks). \u00a0The 2011 Yearbook reported a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}