On Friday morning, Thurston County authorities responded to a predawn fire in the city of Lacey, Wash. The blaze had caused the roof to collapse and destroyed the kingdom hall, the name Jehovah’s Witnesses give to their worship centers. “Why is this specific religion being targeted?” Thurston County Sheriff John Snaza told KOMO, the ABC affiliate in Seattle. Historically, attacks against Jehovah’s Witnesses have threatened the group as a whole, not specific congregations. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a special unit of the Gestapo compiled a registry of Jehovah’s Witnesses and infiltrated their Bible studies.

Source: Washington Post December 09, 2018 19:01 UTC