Jehovah’s Witnesses have restarted their door-to-door ministry after more than two and a half years on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, reviving a religious practice that the faith considers crucial and cherished.⁠ ⁠ From coast to coast, members of the Christian denomination fanned out in cities and towns Thursday to share literature and converse about God for the first time since March 2020.⁠ ⁠ “It all came back quite naturally because we don’t have a canned speech,” said Dan Sideris, who spent Thursday knocking on doors on the south side of Boston. “We try to engage with people about what’s in their heart, and what we say comes from our hearts.”⁠ ⁠ Jehovah's Witnesses suspended door-knocking in the early days of the pandemic's onset in the United States, just as much of the rest of society went into lockdown, too. ⁠ ⁠ The organization also ended all public meetings at its 13,000 U.S. congregations and canceled 5,600 annual gatherings worldwide — an unprecedented move not taken even during the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918, which killed 50 million people globally.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ #APPhotos by Mary Schwalm