{"id":2792,"date":"2016-05-02T08:24:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2016\/05\/02\/earthquakes-in-japan-and-jehovahs-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:24:23","slug":"earthquakes-in-japan-and-jehovahs-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/earthquakes-in-japan-and-jehovahs-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes in Japan and Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px\" class=\"p1 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\">On April\u00a014 and 16, 2016, two massive earthquakes shook the island of Kyushu in southern Japan. The first registered magnitude 6.5, and the second, 7.3. Hundreds of aftershocks have since followed. Over 70 congregations of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses are located in the affected area, but no Witnesses died or were severely injured in the disaster. However, over 70 of their homes sustained severe damage and 17 were destroyed. Because of the continuing aftershocks, over 400 Witnesses were evacuated from their homes to Kingdom Halls, or places of worship, where shelter and meals were provided. The branch office of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Japan has organized a\u00a0<a class=\"pubSym-ijw13fq\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/jehovahs-witnesses\/faq\/assist-with-disaster-relief\/\">disaster relief committee<\/a>\u00a0of volunteers with construction experience to care for the needs of those affected.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px\" class=\"p2 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\"><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px\">Media Contacts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px\" class=\"p3 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\"><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px\">International: David\u00a0A. Semonian, Office of Public Information, tel. +1\u00a0718\u00a0560\u00a05000<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px\" class=\"p4 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\"><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px\">Japan: Ichiki Matsunaga, tel. +81\u00a046\u00a0233\u00a00005<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px\" class=\"p4 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\">https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/news\/releases\/by-region\/japan\/earthquake-disaster-20160428\/\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April\u00a014 and 16, 2016, two massive earthquakes shook the island of Kyushu in southern Japan. The first registered magnitude 6.5, and the second, 7.3. Hundreds of aftershocks have since followed. Over 70 congregations of&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-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","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=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}