A shooting took place Thursday night in Hamburg, Germany, at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, killing at least six people.
The circumstances of this attack are still unclear: was the movement directly targeted?
Is it a simple settling of accounts between members or the work of an unbalanced person?
According to the German media, the facts would in any case have occurred during an event organized by this millenarian community (which awaits the end of the world, editor’s note), considered a “traditional” religion across the Rhine.
Jehovah's Witnesses were founded in 1870 in the United States by Baptist minister Charles Taze Russel.
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He considered that all the Christian Churches were in error and therefore encouraged his faithful to detach themselves from it
”, described the Interministerial Mission for Vigilance and the Fight against Sectarian Abuses (Miviludes) in its 2021 report. movement, God must soon intervene on Earth…
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