What is Jehovah's Witnesses?
{{Infobox Christian denomination | name=Jehovah's Witnesses |image=File:JW Logo.svg | caption= | main_classification=[[Millenarianism|Millenarian]] | orientation = [[Restorationism (Christian primitivism)|Restorationist]] | structure = [[Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses|Hierarchical]] | founder = [[Charles Taze Russell]] (founded [[Bible Student movement]]) | founded_date = 1876: Bible Students founded<br />1931: Named ''Jehovah's witnesses'' | founded_place = [[Pennsylvania]] and [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States|USA]] | parent = [[Bible Student movement]] | separations = See ''[[Jehovah's Witnesses splinter groups|Jehovah's Witnesses<br />splinter groups]]'' | area = [[World]]wide | congregations = 119,485 | members = 8.6 million | footnotes = Statistics from ''[https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/2019-Service-Year-Report-Includes-Largest-Baptismal-Figure-in-20-Years/ 2019 Service Year Report Includes Largest Baptismal Figure in 20 Years]'' | website = http://www.jw.org }} [[File:Assembleatdg2009.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A convention of Jehovah's Witnesses]] [[File:Reunião em Salão do Reino.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Meeting in Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in the [[Netherlands]]]]'''Jehovah's Witnesses''' is a [[religious]] group with more than eight [[million]] members around the world. They believe that [[God]] (who they call [[YHWH|Jehovah]]) will end [[crime]], [[violence]], [[sickness]] and [[death]] by destroying all badness in the world. They say God's kingdom will restore God's original purpose for the earth: to bring about peace for all humans who live by the [[Bible]]'s standards. Some of their beliefs are very different than most other Christian churches'. This is especially true with beliefs about who God is, and what his plans are for humans and the earth. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that only 144,000 people will go to [[heaven]], and that all the other people who obey God will live forever in [[paradise]] on [[earth]]. They do not believe that God is a [[