هل يحتفل شهود يهوه برأس السنة الجديدة؟ لا، لسببين

No. Jehovah’s Witnesses do not celebrate New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. Their publications give two reasons. The first of January was dedicated by the Romans to Janus, one of their gods, and in many places the night is kept with heavy drinking and wild parties, which the Bible warns against. When Witnesses write about New Year’s Eve, they turn again and again to a few lines of Paul’s letter to the believers in Rome. Paul is writing about…