8. What marvelous expansion of Kingdom proclaimers has taken place in Central and South America since 1945?

⁸ In 1945, at the close of the second world war, which had ravaged the earth, there were in all of Central and South America, including Mexico, 4,720 persons who shared in preaching the good news of the Kingdom. During the 1981 service year in those same countries the “good news” was being preached by a peak of 373,919 publishers.

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Growth in preachers of the Word in CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA—

1945 . . . 4,720 publishers

1981 . . . 373,919 publishers