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	'''Jehovah's Witnesses in Cuba''' are a community of 91 651 active ] in ] (about 0,9 % of the citizens), belonging to 1250 ]s. In ], more than 200,000 persons (about 1.9 % of the residents) celebrated the Memorial of Christ's Death. <ref>http://www.watchtower.org/e/statistics/worldwide_report.htm</ref> The share of witnesses in the population is exceeding that in Great Britain. <ref>http://www.watchtower.org/e/statistics/worldwide_report.htm</ref> According to the Watchtower Society, the number of baptisms was 3,293. <ref>http://www.watchtower.org/e/statistics/worldwide_report.htm</ref> Cuba had 1,250 JW congregations in 2009. <ref>http://www.watchtower.org/e/statistics/worldwide_report.htm</ref> In the 1938 to 1947 period, the number of Jehovah's Witnesses in Cuba increased from about 100 to 4,000. <ref>http://www.jstor.org/pss/1388816</ref> After the ], the number of Jehovah's Witness in Cuba increased to 20,000.
	<ref>http://www.jstor.org/pss/1388816</ref> There has been ] in Cuba. The movement has been illegal since the 1970s. <ref>http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JSk_PiObWhAC&pg=PA137&dq=Cuba+%22Jehovah%27s+Witnesses%22&hl=en&ei=4ClPTI_vFNaVOITkmKEB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Cuba%20%22Jehovah%27s%20Witnesses%22&f=false</ref> The number of Jehovah's Witnesses, who left Cuba on the occasion of the 1980 ] is estimated at 3,000. <ref>http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JSk_PiObWhAC&pg=PA137&dq=Cuba+%22Jehovah%27s+Witnesses%22&hl=en&ei=4ClPTI_vFNaVOITkmKEB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Cuba%20%22Jehovah%27s%20Witnesses%22&f=false</ref> In 1989, there were an estimated 30,000 of Jehovah's Witnesses in Cuba. <ref>http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JSk_PiObWhAC&pg=PA137&dq=Cuba+%22Jehovah%27s+Witnesses%22&hl=en&ei=4ClPTI_vFNaVOITkmKEB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Cuba%20%22Jehovah%27s%20Witnesses%22&f=false</ref>
	In ], the Cuban government freed representatives of the ]. Adherents now could meet in groups counting upto 150 persons. In Cuba a Bethel was opened. Although this religious activity was not yet legally recognized, they were allowed to use the building formerly occupied, including ]s as well as the printing of ]. In ] more than 70 000 followerswere reported. In ], authorities agreed to large ''congresses'' in the largest Cuban cities. In that year there were more than 82 thousand spokesmen. And 10 years later more than 90 thousand.
	Cuban dissident ] is the son of a Jehovah's Witness. <ref>http://www.adherents.com/largeco/fam_jw.html</ref>

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