WORLDWIDE in Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

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... worldwide fellowship consists of spouses and other ... 12&12 p.118, Step Twelve (Note)

Not a part of A.A., this worldwide fellowship consists of spouses and other relatives or friends of alcoholics (in A.A. or still drinking).

... worldwide fellowship of more than one hundred ... 12&12 p.15, Foreword

Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.

... worldwide membership of A.A. has just about ... BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition

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Since the third edition was published in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.

... worldwide membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively ... BB xxii, Foreword to Third Edition

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By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.

Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc. The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission. Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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