in Newsmax magazine that appeared the Watchtower and Awake magazines distributed by the Jehovah's Witnesses: 
English translation: Who knew? The Watchtower is now the largest magazine in the world. But you can not buy anywhere.
By Jim Meyers
Move over, AARP magazine. Move over, people. most widely read magazine in the world is a publication may not subscribe or find at any newsstand.
Watchtower the monthly publication of the Jehovah's Witnesses distributed by volunteers in the course of your home by the home ministry, now has a circulation of more than $ 25 million.
Last year, the world of Jehovah's Witnesses 7,300,000 1500000000000 hours spent knocking on doors and delivery of The Watchtower, a guide to the doctrinal beliefs of the witnesses, according to The New York Review of Magazines. There are plenty of copies for everyone. Every month about 40 million copies in over 180 languages \u200b\u200bfor distribution in 236 countries. closest competitor, AARP The Magazine, which has a circulation of just over $ 24 million.
The Watchtower - the full name is The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom - is published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, located near the East River in Brooklyn, NY The Tract Society also publishes a magazine company, Wake up, too! as a series of books, pamphlets, and a Bible.
The operation is funded entirely by donations, most of the witnesses who come from contributions to their meeting places called Kingdom Halls. revenues Witnesses in general is unknown, but in 2001 the list of Newsday Tract Society as one of 40 in New York the wealthiest city in companies with revenues exceeding $ 950 million.
Watchtower's statement of mission is printed on the inside cover of each issue: "The purpose of this review is to honor Jehovah God, the Supreme Ruler of the universe. As surveillance towers the age a person entitled to observe the evolution of the case, so this review shows the importance of world events in light of Bible prophecy. people are comfortable with the good news that the Kingdom of God, is a real government in the sky, soon put an end to all evil and transform the earth into paradise. "
The Watchtower, and witnesses, had its origin in 1879 when the writer and preacher Charles T. Russell published Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence.
Russell was a former deputy director Second Adventist magazine, Herald of the Morning, and fans had gathered in the years prior to 1879 through tours and newspaper columns. He separated from the Adventist doctrine that the world did not end in 1878, as predicted.
Its new doctrine asserts that Christ would return land in 1914 to destroy non-believers and allow the witnesses to the transformation of the planet into a paradise. Religion adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses in the 1930's, the teaching that Christ returned in 1914, but was invisible. Witnesses now "adopt a less specific approach to the end of the world", according to the Magazine of Magazines, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism.
Each issue of The Watchtower is planned a year in advance of the drafting committee of nine members at the headquarters of the Witnesses in Brooklyn, and a central theme, a breeding children and divorce, is chosen for that month.
Members of the editing department of 70 people living with about 1,500 workers from five other buildings near the headquarters of Brooklyn.
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