{"id":2613,"date":"2015-05-11T12:44:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T12:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2015\/05\/11\/guatemalan-schools-request-publications-from-jehovahs-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2015-05-11T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T12:44:58","slug":"guatemalan-schools-request-publications-from-jehovahs-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/guatemalan-schools-request-publications-from-jehovahs-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemalan schools request publications from Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Guatemala City &#8211; As crime rises exponentially in Guatemala, three schools have requested publications from Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses in an effort to curb youth crime in the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Guatemalan children live a life much different than children in the U.S. and Canada, facing trauma similar to children who live in countries rife with conflict. According to Al Jazeera, the country has one of the highest child homicide rates in the world with a murder rate 800 percent higher than the United States.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/8pfOYoT.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" \/>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">According to JW.org, the official website of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses, the schools contacted the organization since they are one of the few publishers of content in Quich\u00e9, an American Indian language spoken in the western highlands of the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Also, an official document from the Official Rural Coeducational Elementary School in Paraje Xepec, Professor Maria Cortez stated that the publications were requested \u201cto rescue the values and moral principles that are much needed in society.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The publications requested were My Book of Bible Stories in Quich\u00e9 as well as Volume 1 and 2 of Questions Young People Ask-Answers that Work in Spanish. Approximately 3500 copies were donated and parents were also given their own copies to enable them to help their children with assignments.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The Official Rural Coeducational Elementary School has also added the video The Prodigal Returns to the school curriculum.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Almost half of Guatemalans are Roman Catholic with about 25 to 40 percent of the population being Protestant. There are a little over 37,000 Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses in Guatemala in 775 congregations.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemala City &#8211; As crime rises exponentially in Guatemala, three schools have requested publications from Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses in an effort to curb youth crime in the country. Guatemalan children live a life much different than&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-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","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=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}