{"id":1140,"date":"2012-10-17T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2012\/10\/17\/jehovahs-witnesses-behind-the-knock\/"},"modified":"2012-10-17T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:15:15","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-behind-the-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/jehovahs-witnesses-behind-the-knock\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses: Behind the Knock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Most commonly recognised \u2013 and widely mocked \u2013 for their door-to-door evangelism, Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses comprise one of Christianity\u2019s best-known, but least understood, sects.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Behind the Knock opens the door on a faith that is relatively young, born out of Bible studies groups in the 1870s, but carries the strength of religious fervour. They use the name of Jehovah to distinguish themselves from other Christians and do not believe in the Holy Trilogy, nor do they celebrate birthdays or the \u2018pagan\u2019 festivals of Christmas or Easter.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">They are moral conservatives who stay out of politics, but their many human rights victories in the law courts benefit all of us. They refuse blood transfusions, but are eager guinea pigs in support of new science to advance bloodless surgery. They are pacifists who refuse to fight for their country, so in Nazi Germany, told they could fight for Hitler or go to the concentration camps, they chose the camps.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">From their base in Brooklyn, New York, Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses have spread across the globe and now number more than 20 million, a third of whom are active evangelists. Following two Jehovah\u2019s Witness families, this programme reveals how the religion has helped shape history beyond the doorstep.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses: Behind the Knock &#8211; Saturday 27 October at 11.15pm<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pbsamerica.co.uk\/jehovas-witnesses-behind-the-knock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pbsamerica.co.uk\/jehovas-witnesses-behind-the-knock<\/a>\u00a0(see video)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Most commonly recognised \u2013 and widely mocked \u2013 for their door-to-door evangelism, Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses comprise one of Christianity\u2019s best-known, but least understood, sects. Behind the Knock opens the door on a faith that is&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-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","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=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}