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Do all congregations have to destroy all documents related to cases of Pedophilia?
by opusdei1972 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i have been reading in facebook that there is a new society's order for destroying all documents concerning cases of pedophilia in all congregations.

is it true that the elders have received such an order?

?
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Column totals do not add up in WT's stats
by dropoffyourkeylee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the wt yearbook stats for years 1988-2014 are available at the jw.org official site at:.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0b2fynzabupqfb0vmdha5rgnwyuk.

toward the bottom of the page is the link to download the excel file with all the stats.
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Prediction: jw.org sign up with monthly subscription fee
by bohm in
1. jw
2. friends
the wtbs is changing media from print to online.

if we look at other companies doing the same the obvious buissness model is subscription with a monthly fee people can choose themselves.

the wtbs can continue to offer everything for free, however subscribers might earn a button for social media or somesuch ("wtbs donor").
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Yearbook 2016: Annual Report (15177 Partakers)
by Designer Stubble in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the 2016 yearbook is up on jw.orgbranches of jehovahs witnesses: 89 (was 90)number of lands reporting: 240 (was 239)total congregations: 118016 (was 115416)worldwide memorial attendance: 19,862,763 (was 19,950,019) decreasememorial partakers worldwide: 15,177 (was 14,121 in 2013:13,204) large increasepeak of publishers in kingdom service: 8,220,105 (was 8,201,205) minor increaseaverage publishers preaching each month: 7,987,279 (was 7,867,958)percentage of increase over 2014: 1.5 (was 2.2)total number baptized: 260,273 (was 275,581)average auxiliary pioneer publishers each month: 443,504 (was 635,298) huge decreaseaverage pioneer publishers each month: 1,135,210 (was 1,089,446)total hours spent in field: 1,933,473,727 (was 1,945,487,604) decreaseaverage home bible studies each month: 9,708,968 (was 9,499,933)
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WT Branch in Poland: Buy building of three floors located in the heart of Wlochy in Warsaw, for US $500,000 .
by hildebrando in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
department of translation's video presentation, which prepare material in polish.

subtitles in english and spanish:.

http://hildeydesa.blogspot.cl/2015/11/carta-140915-promoviendo-proyectos-de.html.
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2016 WT printing reduction - Figures
by Splash in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the wt has been reducing it's printed output of the public wt magazine since 2012.this is how the figures breakdown:.

month ................. wt printing each issue ............. total pages per issue ..... languagesjanuary 2012 ....... 42,182,000 .................................. 1,349,824,000 ...................... 194january 2016 ....... 58,987,000 .................................. 943,792,000 ......................... 254. during 2012 the public wt had 32 pages, so there were 1.35 billion wt pages printed for the public to read each month.1,349,824,000 pages x 12 months = 16,197,888,000 (16.2 billion) pages per year.

by 2016 the public wt has only 16 pages and is being printed only on alternate months.943,792,000 pages x 6 times per year = 5,662,752,000 (5.7 billion pages per year).
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Largest BOE file in existence - updated as of November 2015
by WTS Archive in
1. watchtower
2. bible
courtesy of atlantis, largest boe file ever compiled has been updated (see previous version here).. to download it, visit: http://www.filedropper.com/1905-2016-boe-file.

click on gray "download this file" button, then solve the captcha and enjoy the massive, 1.2 gb file containing nerly every secret letter and document watchtower society published since 1905 up until now..
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Massive Plunge in Number of New JW Congregations from 1990 to 2014
by steve2 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
in a separate thread on the very latest figures for the current world wide annual report of jws, discussion turned to how "we'll know decline has really set in.

one of the posters said: .

the figure that interests me most is the number of congregations.
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The most widely distributed magazine in the US !!!
by Calebs Airplane in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
1. watchtower & awake - under review as these is now a 16-page anorexic pamphlets (not magazines) .

2. espn: 42.9 million 3. people: 28 million 4. allrecipes: 24.5 million 5. forbes: 21.6 million 6. time: 18.1 million 7. entertainment weekly: 14.3 million 8. cosmopolitan: 13.7 million 9. bloomberg businessweek: 11.2 million 10. new york: 9.8 million .
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Now you don't even have to go to the Kingdom Hall - ALL meetings to be recorded & available on jw.org (if you have a password)
by sir82 in
1. jw
2. friends
latest boe letter:.

october 22, 2015. to all bodies of eldersre: use of jw stream.

dear brothers:we are writing to inform you that arrangements are being made for video recordings ofcongregation meetings, circuit assemblies, and conventions to be uploaded to jw stream (accessibleat http://stream.jw.org) in various languages.