MADAGASCAR
(See also Malagasy [Language])
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
animals: yb00 225
tiny chameleon: g 2/13 3
Antananarivo (Tananarive): yb00 227-228
customs:
exhumation of the dead: w94 10/15 5
description: w12 6/15 4; yb00 225-226, 255
language: w12 6/15 3; w09 12/15 29
plants: yb00 225
medicinal: g94 8/22 29
population:
demography: w12 6/15 3; yb00 225-226
pottery: g91 9/8 26-27
religion: yb00 226-227
Christendom’s missionaries: w09 12/15 29-31; w87 11/1 4
divine name known: w09 12/15 31; yb00 226-227
early Bible translation: w09 12/15 29-31; w07 1/15 12
rulers:
King Radama I: w09 12/15 29-30
Queen Ranavalona I: w09 12/15 30-31
superstition: w87 11/1 4
tabàky (skin treatment): g 7/09 20
Jehovah’s Witnesses
ban (1970-1994): w06 4/1 15; yb00 243-247
Branch Committee: yb00 247-248, 251
branch office: yb00 248
Antananarivo (1963): w06 4/1 15; yb00 235-236
Antananarivo area (1996): yb00 248-249; yb98 24, 28; km 8/96 4
Antananarivo area (2015): yb16 28
branch office having oversight:
France (1959): yb00 235
Mauritius (1955): yb00 235
branch servants: w06 4/1 15; yb00 236
country committee: yb00 244
early witnessing: yb00 227-228; jv 435
Gilead attendee: yb00 245
growth: w06 4/1 15-16; yb00 229, 234-235, 242, 244, 247-248, 254-255; yb98 24
Kingdom Halls: yb99 26
legal recognition:
cultural society (1984): yb00 247
religious association (1994): yb00 247
missionaries: w17.01 6; w11 6/1 24-25; yb00 231-234, 241-243, 247-248, 252; jv 541
modern history: yb00 224-255
persecution:
missionaries deported: yb00 242-243
persons:
Andriamasy, Théodore: yb00 245
Andriamoara, Félix: yb00 235, 246
Bagvandjee, Dirajlal (Dirou) and Simone: yb00 239-241, 248
Branca, Antoine and Gilberte: yb00 231
Carbonneau, Laval and Irene: yb00 232-233, 238-239
Chabot, Florent and Henriette: yb00 231-232, 243
Gilman, Samuel and Thelma: yb00 234, 242-243
Hoffmann, Gisela: yb00 241-242
Königer, Margarita: yb00 241-242; jv 541
Kuokkanen, Raimo and Veera: w06 4/1 14-16; yb00 233-234, 236, 239, 242-243, 247-248
Lisiak, Adam: yb00 228-231, 242-243
Marlot, Edouard: yb00 228-231
Marlot, Narcisse (Razanaboahangy): yb00 229-230
McLuckie, Robert A. (Bert): yb00 227-228, 230; w90 2/1 28
Nisbet, Robert: yb00 227-228, 230
Rabehasy, Noël: yb00 229-230
Rajaobelina, Célestin: yb00 239
Randriamora, Olivier and Oly: w12 6/15 3-6
Rasoamalala, Louise: yb00 237
Vavy, Claire: g05 2/22 24-27
Wieck, Wilhelm: g87 10/8 14
pioneers: bt 6; yb00 249-250
special pioneers: w12 6/15 3; g05 2/22 24-27; yb00 228-229, 231-232, 235, 250-251
Pioneer Service School: yb00 250
places:
Morondava: w16.01 2
publications: yb00 236-237
book “Let God Be True”: yb00 238
magazine The Watchtower: yb00 237-238
relief work:
cyclone Gretelle (1997): yb00 253
service experiences: yb00 232; w92 9/1 23; w89 11/1 31; yb89 43-44
cattle thief: yb09 44
group searches for truth: yb11 52-53
Hindus: yb00 239-241
older man pioneers despite opposition: yb01 12
preacher, family, and church members: yb08 44
villagers send for Witnesses: yb14 51-52
Watch! brochure: yb06 7-8
serving where need is greater: w18.01 3-6
traveling overseers: w12 6/15 3-6; yb00 238-239, 252-253
visits by—
Henschel, M. G.: yb00 234-235, 244-245
Knorr, N. H.: yb00 234
Ramseyer, André: yb00 247
Sanderson, Mark: yb16 28