The Watchtower’s Samoan edition

Did you know that The Watchtower, started in 1879 by Charles Taze Russell and published monthly by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, is the most widely read magazine in the world? It has appeared with slightly different names, and has different editions even now, but you would have to live pretty isolated if you never had seen this magazine anywhere.

The success of this theologically very conservative magazine is based on several factors. Previously they used to charge a fee for it, but since January 2000 it is free of charge worldwide. The printing is funded by voluntary donations from Jehovah’s Witnesses and members of the public, and distribution is handled by an army of volunteers around the world.

And no matter what your own religious or philosophical beliefs are - and even if you are an atheist - one thing many of us might be able to agree upon: the art work in each Watchtower issue is pretty appealing!

The Watctower is published around the world in over 300 languages. Let’s see some of those languages here, i.e. the local title of the magazine:

?? Kulla e Rojës (Albanian)
?? Стражева кула (Bulgarian)
?? Stražarska kula (Croatian)
?? Strážná věž (Czech)
?? Vagttårnet (Danish)
???????? The Watchtower (English)
?? Vahitorn (Estonian)
?? Ang Bantayan (Filipino) 
?? Vartiotorni (Finnish)
?? La Tour de Garde (French)
?? საგუშაგო კოშკი (Georgian)
?? Der Wachtturm (German)
?? Η Σκοπιά (Greek)
?? Az Őrtorony (Hungarian)
?? Varðtorninn (Icelandic)
?? La Torre di Guardia (Italian)
?? Monomi no too (Japanese) ものみの塔
?? Sargtornis (Latvian)
?? Sargybos bokštas (Lithuanian)
?? Te Pare Tiairaa (Maori) 
?? Харуулын цамхаг (Mongolian)
?? Vakttårnet (Norwegian)
?? Strażnica (Polish)
?? A Sentinela (Portuguese)
?? Turnul de veghe (Romanian)
?? Сторожевая башн (Russian)
?? Le Olomatamata (Samoan)
?? Стражарска кула (Serbian)
?? La Atalaya (Spanish) 
?? Mnara wa Mlinzi (Swahili) 
?? Vakttornet (Swedish)
?? INqabayokulinda (Zulu) 

Updated 19.11.2021