Theocratic News

◆ The island of Kiribati reported a new peak of 24 publishers for May, a 60-percent increase over last year’s average. Congregation publishers averaged 19.5 hours in the field.

◆ New Caledonia had a peak of 954 publishers in May. Their circuit assemblies were attended by 2,159, and 30 were baptized.

◆ Nigeria had an all-time peak in May of 134,543 publishers. Thus far this service year 5,456 have been baptized, which is 16.1 percent above the number baptized for the same period last year.