{"id":37946,"date":"2023-10-30T04:31:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=37946"},"modified":"2025-04-23T03:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:40:20","slug":"kerala-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kerala-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Blast &#8211; Who are Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in news?<\/li>\n<li>Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses<\/li>\n<li>Who are Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses?<\/li>\n<li>Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in India<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Two people were killed and scores injured after a series of blasts at a Sunday prayer convention of the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses sect near Kochi.<\/li>\n<li>Dominic Martin, an estranged member of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, who is now in police custody, posted a video on social media taking responsibility for the act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Who are Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A Christian sect\n<ul>\n<li>Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses are a Christian sect, <u>but do not believe in the Holy Trinity<\/u>.\n<ul>\n<li>The Holy Trinity doctrine says that God exists in three equal persons of the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Origins of the sect\n<ul>\n<li>The origins of the sect lie in a Bible Student movement started in the 1870s by American pastor Charles Taze Russell.<\/li>\n<li>Today, the Governing Body of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses is located in Warwick, New York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Gods they worship\n<ul>\n<li>They worship Jehovah as \u201c<u>the one true and Almighty God, the Creator<\/u>\u201d, who is \u201cthe God of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>They believe Jesus Christ to be the \u201cKing of God\u2019s Kingdom in heaven\u201d, but not as the Almighty God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Religious text\n<ul>\n<li>They base their beliefs only on the text of the Bible, which they see as the word of God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Festivals\n<ul>\n<li>They don\u2019t celebrate Christmas or Easter, because they believe such festivals to be inspired by Pagan traditions.\n<ul>\n<li>Paganism describes a group of contemporary religions based on a reverence for nature.<\/li>\n<li>These faiths draw on the traditional religions of indigenous peoples throughout the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Known for their evangelical work\n<ul>\n<li>Evangelical work- Believing that religious ceremony is not as important as belief in Jesus Christ and study of the Bible. For this they go door to door, to spread \u201cThe Truth\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>They believe the end of the world is near, and the Kingdom of God will replace human governments and accomplish God\u2019s purpose for the earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in India<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Presence\n<ul>\n<li>Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses have been present in India since 1905.<\/li>\n<li>They established an office in 1926 in Bombay (now Mumbai), and obtained legal registration in 1978.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>SC verdict and Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses\n<ul>\n<li>A landmark case involving the sect in India was <u>Bijoe Emmanuel vs State Of Kerala<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>The Supreme Court, in its 1986 verdict, granted protection to three children belonging to the sect, <u>who did not join in the singing of the National Anthem at their school<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>The court held that forcing them to sing the Anthem violated their fundamental right to religion under Article 25 of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Holy trinity doctrine?<\/h3>\n<p>The doctrine of the Trinity is a Christian belief that one God exists as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The doctrine states that these three persons are co-equal and co-eternal, with the same nature and attributes. They are worthy of the same worship, confidence, and obedience.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) Who was Moses?<\/h3>\n<p>Moses was a Hebrew prophet, teacher, and leader in the 13th century BCE. He is considered the most important prophet in Judaism and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, the Druze faith, the Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/kerala-blast-kills-one-who-are-jehovahs-witnesses-9004346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Kerala blast kills two: Who are Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/paganism\/ataglance\/glance.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>BBC<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/man-claiming-to-be-behind-kochi-blasts-says-jehovas-witnesses-anti-national-was-a-member-for-16-years-9004730\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses are a Christian sect, but do not believe in the Holy Trinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}