{"id":819,"date":"2011-08-13T19:21:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2011\/08\/13\/jehovahs-witnesses-in-belarus-enjoy-first-nationwide-gathering-in-12-years\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:20:03","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-in-belarus-enjoy-first-nationwide-gathering-in-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/jehovahs-witnesses-in-belarus-enjoy-first-nationwide-gathering-in-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Belarus enjoy first nationwide gathering in 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MINSK, Belarus\u2014From July 15 to 17, 2011, Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses held a three-day convention in Minsk entitled, \u201cLet God\u2019s Kingdom Come!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6003\" src=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/QwDO7BV.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1179\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/QwDO7BV.jpeg 1179w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/QwDO7BV-768x430.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/QwDO7BV-300x168.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1179px) 100vw, 1179px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The delegates came from all six administrative districts in Belarus. The peak attendance was 5,156, including 195 who benefited as the program was interpreted into Russian Sign Language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The joy of the delegates at this convention was particularly noteworthy since the last time Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Belarus were able to meet together in one location was 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the delegates at the convention described the atmosphere that prevailed: \u201cThis is just unforgettable! Every person is different, but everyone is smiling and their faces shine with happiness. It is wonderful that we were allowed to gather together in such a large number after so many years!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similar conventions are being held worldwide. They are open to the public and free. Worldwide, there are over 7,500,000 Witnesses associated with more than 107,000 congregations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">http:\/\/www.jw-media.org\/blr\/20110811.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINSK, Belarus\u2014From July 15 to 17, 2011, Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses held a three-day convention in Minsk entitled, \u201cLet God\u2019s Kingdom Come!\u201d The delegates came from all six administrative districts in Belarus. The peak attendance was 5,156,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belarus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/6005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}