  An important aspect of religious association is that adherents, as part of
their religious duty, carry out various activities. One religious group known
for keeping the elaborate records of day-to-day activities of its members is
the Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs)-a worldwide Christian religious group. We analyze
the historical records of the country-wide data associated with twelve
different religious activities of JWs to see if there are any patterns in the
distribution of the first digits as predicted by Benford's law. This law states
that the first digits of numbers in data sets are not uniformly distributed but
often, not always, follow a logarithmic distribution such that the numbers
beginning with smaller digits appear more frequently than those with larger
ones. We find that the data on religious activities like peak publishers,
pioneer publishers, baptizations, public meetings, congregations, bible
studies, time spent in door-to-door contacts, attendances at the memorial
services, total literature and individual magazines distributed, new
subscriptions and back-calls received excellently conforms to Benford's law.
