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252 Congregations have closed in Germany since 2015
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scratchme1010
That sounds like a whole lot. I'm always the Devil's advocate, so I wonder if there's a way of verifying those numbers.
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Listener
These are some quick figures that I could find
1999 Yearbook reports 2,083 congregations in Germany.
2017 Around the World on JW org lists 2159 Congregations in Germany
164,243 ave pubs in Germany in 2016
If the number of congregations has dropped that significantly in Germany in the last few years then there would be a noticeable drop in publishers over that time as well and I don't recall that as being reported.Link +2 / -1 -
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Crazyguy
Someone over a Reddit post numbers going back each year for a few years. According to his numbers in 2013 the number of congregations closed went way up to 62 and continued to rise and the last couple of years well over 100 per year. Don’t know where he got his info from. He’s says it may have to do with changes of each congregations legal status and possible reductions from the LDC.
He also just posted that his sources are research in Germany of closed halls. Info provided at JW.borg and other official sources. He lists a German website as well of I believe all the sold halls. The website listed is https://www.jehovaszeugen.de/amtsblatt.44.0.html
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Must be true. Check this link out. Works out to be close to the quoted number. Notice since 2015, the number significantly increases. That is around the time of the ARC.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/77nu4l/good_news_from_germany/
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