{"id":491,"date":"2010-05-19T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2010\/05\/19\/witnesses-begin-remain-close-to-jehovah-conventions-2\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:31:49","slug":"witnesses-begin-remain-close-to-jehovah-conventions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/witnesses-begin-remain-close-to-jehovah-conventions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses begin \u201cRemain Close to Jehovah!\u201d conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Witnesses begin \u201cRemain Close to Jehovah!\u201d conventions<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">NEW YORK\u2014Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses announce the start of their 2010 \u201cRemain Close to Jehovah!\u201d three-day conventions and warmly invite all to attend. The first of these events will begin this week on Friday, May 21, in five locations in the United States: West Palm Beach, Florida; Jersey City, New Jersey; Turnersville, New Jersey; Brooklyn, New York; and Queens, New York. Continuing through mid-September, there will be a total of 356 conventions in 90 cities in the continental United States. Conventions will be held in English, as well as in Spanish and 14 other languages.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The \u201cRemain Close to Jehovah!\u201d series of conventions will also be held in various locations around the world through January 2011. All are invited to attend. There is no admission fee, nor are collections taken at any convention or meeting of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses. There are over 7,300,000 Witnesses associated with more than 105,000 congregations worldwide.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">For more information, please see the four-minute video news release \u201cConventions of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses,\u201d a special report featured on jw-media.org.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jw-media.org\/gbl\/20100517.htm\">http:\/\/www.jw-media.org\/gbl\/20100517.htm<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jw-media.org\/gbl\/20100517.htm\"><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses begin \u201cRemain Close to Jehovah!\u201d conventions NEW YORK\u2014Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses announce the start of their 2010 \u201cRemain Close to Jehovah!\u201d three-day conventions and warmly invite all to attend. The first of these events will begin&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-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}