Every year, Jehovah's Witnesses commemorate only the death of Jesus Christ in Nisan 14 of the Hebrew calendar. They do not observe Christmas, being pagan, or any other religious event, besides Nisan 14.
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Nisan
//niːˈsɑːn//
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Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܢܝܣܢ name (seventh month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar)
Czech
1 entries- nisan name (seventh month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar)
Hebrew
1 entries- נִיסָן name (seventh month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar)
Indonesian
1 entries- Nisan name (seventh month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar)
Irish
1 entries- Níosán name (seventh month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar)
Persian
1 entries- نیسان name (seventh month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar)
Yiddish
1 entries- ניסן name (seventh month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar)
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It is the 22nd of March of 2015. Jeffrey and Francis from Jehovah's Witnesses have visited my door. They remind me of the last supper and death of JC on Nisan 14 on the Hebrew lunar calendar. Nisan 14 is the Memorial of JC every year. They invite me to their ceremony. Last week, Leo, Arnan, and I discuss that rabbits and eggs are pagan. Xmas is pagan, too.
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Nisan is over already.
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Micky Vayner shrugged; as far as he knew, it was, by the lunar calendar, an ordinary day in the month of Nisan.
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