Do Jehovah witnesses do peace work?

Answer 1

Individual Witnesses can do so if they want but it is generally looked down upon to contribute money or time to 'worldly' (non Witness) charity work. They consider their door to door preaching to be the greatest charity work due to their belief that Armageddon is imminent and only Jehovah's Witnesses will survive it. Anecdotally I have heard charity work likened to ''polishing the brass on a sinking ship''.

Watchtower 1st Nov '61 p672 says,

''Whether a dedicated Christian will contribute to such charitable drives or not is something for each one to decide for himself. He may justly feel that he is already using all his available resources in a charitable work, that of preaching the good news of God's kingdom, and that therefore he is not under obligation to contribute to other forms of charity. He also might well reason that his money will do more good if spent in some other way, in view of the large overhead that certain charitable organizations have, the officers of some receiving extremely high salaries. So it would be a burden of responsibility that each Christian would have to bear himself as to what would be the best thing for him to do under the circumstances.''