{"id":2391,"date":"2014-11-04T18:16:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T15:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2014\/11\/04\/international-convention-coverage-olympic-stadium-in-greece-welcomes-jehovahs-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2022-03-06T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T10:59:16","slug":"international-convention-coverage-olympic-stadium-in-greece-welcomes-jehovahs-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/international-convention-coverage-olympic-stadium-in-greece-welcomes-jehovahs-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"International Convention Coverage: Olympic Stadium in Greece Welcomes Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ATHENS, Greece\u2014Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Greece hosted the \u201cKeep Seeking First God\u2019s Kingdom!\u201d International Convention at the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens, the site of the 2004 Olympic Games, on June 27-29, 2014. An audience of 35,863 Bible students gathered at the stadium. During select portions of the program, another 3,093 people were tied in by video in Belgium and Cyprus, bringing the total peak attendance to 38,956.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qHLRs9l.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Convention attendees included delegates from Croatia, Hungary, Korea, Romania, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States. Christina Michail, the manager of the main Olympic stadium, commented: \u201cIt was delightful to see people from so many races, from different countries, all sitting together, taking photographs together; and I liked the loving atmosphere . . . This is really noteworthy. We usually don\u2019t have such an experience in this stadium. Usually we have sports fans and team supporters here, and their behavior is very different; that is why we are so impressed and delighted to watch this scene.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Robert Kern, a spokesman for the branch office of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Greece, added: \u201cWe have received hundreds of letters expressing gratitude for the program and the opportunity to share this experience with our international brotherhood. It was wonderful to have so many of our fellow worshippers from other countries with us for this memorable occasion.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/news\/releases\/by-region\/greece\/athens-olympic-stadium-jw-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.jw.org<\/a>\u00a0with photos<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece\u2014Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Greece hosted the \u201cKeep Seeking First God\u2019s Kingdom!\u201d International Convention at the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens, the site of the 2004 Olympic Games, on June 27-29, 2014. An audience of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","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=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}