{"id":1839,"date":"2013-08-24T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2013\/08\/24\/top-2-most-popular-magazines-of-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-08-24T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T09:00:56","slug":"top-2-most-popular-magazines-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/top-2-most-popular-magazines-of-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 2 Most Popular Magazines of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>1. The Watchtower\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The World\u2019s most circulated magazine is an illustrated religious magazine. It is a monthly American magazine, first published in 1879. It is published in 209 languages around the globe with a monthly circulation of a massive 45 million copies. It is published by the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses through the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society Pennsylvania. Its purpose is given in its mission statement: \u201cThis magazine, The Watchtower, honors Jehovah God, the Ruler of the universe. It comforts people with the good news that God\u2019s heavenly Kingdom will soon end all wickedness and transform the earth into a paradise. It promotes faith in Jesus Christ, who died so that we might gain everlasting life and who is now ruling as King of God\u2019s Kingdom. This magazine has been published continuously since 1879 and is nonpolitical. It adheres to the Bible as its authority.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>2. Awake!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The World\u2019s second most circulated magazine is a religious magazine. Awake! is a monthly American magazine considered to be the companion magazine of The Watchtower. It is an illustrated magazine, first published in 1919. It is published by the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses through the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Its original purpose, as given in a statement until 1982 was: \u201cthismagazine builds confidence in the Creator\u2019s promise of a peaceful and secure new order before the generation that saw 1914 pass away\u201d. It is published in 99 languages with a total circulation of around 43.5 million copies.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/theworldnewsmedia.org\/Top+10+Most+Popular+Magazines+of+2013<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The Watchtower\u00a0 The World\u2019s most circulated magazine is an illustrated religious magazine. It is a monthly American magazine, first published in 1879. It is published in 209 languages around the globe with a monthly&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-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","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=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}