Jehovah’s Witnesses are neither a colonially established religion nor a newly established post-Genocide religion in Rwanda but rather date back to more than two decades before the Genocide. Despite repression during the government ban between 1982 and 1992, the faith community grew slowly but steadily. The number of baptized Witnesses increased dramatically after the Genocide in 1994—an increase of about 100% by 1996 and 1,600% by 2023. (Growth Over Time—Generations of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Section 5, Faith, page 98; Figure 3.2)
Figure 3.2, Number of Baptisms per Year, With JW and Non-JW Parents at Time of Respondents’ Birth
