Like many reforming churches, the Witnesses base their lives and beliefs on the example of the early Christian Church and the words of the Bible. They believe that since Christ proclaimed that his ...

thus signifying the deacon’s special attachment to the bishop in the tasks of his ‘diakonia’” (CCC 1569). The hierarchy of the church is a divinely instituted reality. It is what Christ ...

Current and former Jehovah’s Witnesses reported 159 cases of sexual ... “I want to ask the church how it will protect children when there is sexual abuse within the congregation.” ...

This is a very important event for Jehovah's Witnesses, which, according to their official texts, occurred in 607 BCE, but ...

It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the 'hierarchy ... Church distinguish between theology (theologia) and economy (oikonomia). 'Theology' refers to the mystery of God's inmost ...