Groups the spreadevent entries documenting the spread of Jehovah's Witnesses from their late nineteenth century American origin through a decentralized door to door missionary model that established congregations worldwide despite recurring state suppression in several countries. Belongs here: any event marking the movement's establishment, growth or suppression in a new territory. Does not belong here: its own founding and doctrinal-formation events; the spread events of any other denomination.
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1. Wikipedia: Jehovah's Witnesses
WikipediaWikipedia Jehovah's Witnesses, lead section, origin statement
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, and restorationist Christian denomination, stemming from the Bible Student movement founded by Charles Taze Russell in the nineteenth century.
Wikipedia Jehovah's Witnesses, lead section, era statement
Russell co-founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society in 1881 to organize and print the movement's publications.
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