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When Did Jehovah’s Witnesses Accept Cremation-and Why? (Part 1)

A Brief Beginning: How the Jehovah’s Witness Movement Began To understand how Jehovah’s Witnesses came to their present day position on cremation, it is helpful to first look briefly at the origins of the movement itself. The movement that eventually became known as Jehovah’s Witnesses began in the 1870’s in the United States, emerging from…