"Traditional churches are beginning to consolidate, with many churches with low attendance numbers merging with other nearby churches," IBISWorld said.
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We could see unregistered churches forced to join government churches.
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But how are these "cool" new rising churches different from other churches?
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Unlike the old underground churches, these independent churches wanted to be public.
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Blacks and Hispanics, more than whites, believe churches should be more diverse, and attend mostly white churches more than whites attend black and Hispanic churches.
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Fellowshipping and having black churches join white churches for crosscultural exchanges is fine.
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"It would be wonderful if the Anglican churches could copy the black churches."
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"Many churches, not necessarily the traditional churches, are growing rather than shrinking," he says.
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If you have nice churches without people, what will you do with those churches?
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But many Anglican churches that are growing, as in King's Cross, are "network" churches.
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The Churches Conservation Trust, a charity, welcomed the first sleepovers in two churches in 2015.
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Could big, muscular churches become the new normal in New York as smaller churches vanish?
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Officials have closed unregistered churches and removed crosses and onion domes from some official churches and mosques.
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Plenty of multiracial churches continue to thrive, and at some churches, tough conversations on race have begun.
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"The tensions between these two churches are related to the patrimony: the buildings, churches," said the Rev.
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Churches are autonomous But unlike the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations, the Southern Baptist Convention is a collection of 47,000 autonomous churches, with little power to force churches to comply with policies.
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Meanwhile, archaeologists have identified at least seven other churches at the site: four basilicas and three smaller churches.
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But the issue of slavery tore the Northern and Southern churches apart, and divided black from white churches.
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"Protestant house churches are being shutdown and even officially registered churches are under increased government scrutiny," Busby said.
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This is why you've seen that there are attacks against churches, tear gas being fired into churches, and people prevented from going in and in some cases prevented from coming out of churches after services.
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It means that every year we opened more than 22000,0003 churches: three churches per day for this entire period.
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In fact, the most grass-roots churches in the U.S. — our Pentecostal churches — are often the most racially diverse.
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Priests are allowed to marry in the Orthodox and Eastern Rite Churches as well as Protestant and Anglican Churches.
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" He laughed, and added, "If we could have come out of churches, we would have come out of churches!
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We have a dizzying array of sects, with churches on every street corner, but these churches often feel no connection to people in other churches or those -- perhaps the majority -- with no religious affiliation at all.
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Additionally, most (but not all) Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate Easter up to five weeks later than Catholic and Protestant churches.
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Ken Wilbur, the lawyer representing all 12 churches, said that filing an appeal was something the churches were still considering.
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Officials have removed more than 1,200 crosses from churches and other buildings and in some cases have destroyed entire churches.
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It is one of the reasons — not the only one — why Orthodox churches often celebrate Easter later than Western churches.
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Authorities have shut down many underground Christian churches, and torn down crosses of some churches deemed illegal by the government.
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With Hispanic churches running out of beds, coordinator Magdalena Schwartz reached out to dozens of churches in the Phoenix area.
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The government requires religious groups to register, though many still worship in unofficial churches, sometimes called underground or house churches.
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Opponents say it will allow political leaders to pressure churches and allow some churches to be turned into political operations.
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That group will include churches in the U.S. as well as most of the churches in Africa, the Post reported.
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We pray for healing in this country at our churches, but are reluctant to make inroads between white and black churches.
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China's Catholics are divided among those who attend government-approved churches and underground churches that are loyal only to the Vatican.
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The response from churches and other religious organizations regarding CDC regulations have been mixed — some churches are closing, while others aren't.
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Churches, especially black churches, are places where people can lay their burdens down and be their true selves, said the Rev.
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It is the largest of the six Eastern Rite churches in Egypt, not the largest of the 23 such churches worldwide.
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"The Italian churches I found were for example decorated with beautiful frescoes, while French churches were decorated with stucco," he said.
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Burned Louisiana churches Over an almost two-week span, three black churches in one rural parish have burned in suspicious fires.
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"They will be visiting black churches, and it's important to visit black churches because black churches have always been a pinnacle of the community," Williams said, adding those kinds of visits can help boost Trump's credibility among African-Americans.
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"There are a number of churches and emerging churches every day, month, and year that are jumping on this bandwagon," Peterson said.
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Clinton capped off the whirlwind weekend with stops at three churches in Queens as her husband spoke at black churches in Harlem.
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The Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox Churches just came together with the World Council of Churches to celebrate a monthlong Season of Creation.
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As for why Matthews allegedly singled out those churches, Boutte says churches are a dime a dozen in that part of Louisiana.
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Pastors at nearby churches undertook security measures, including sleeping in their churches or the parking lots to ward off would-be arsons.
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Queer bodies, bodies of color, trans bodies — those are not the bodies given to us by Catholic churches or white evangelical churches.
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Since the adoption of a 2016 law regulating the construction of churches, a number of churches have closed and, in some cases, Copts must pray in the streets because mobs violently protest the licensing and building of churches in their villages.
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While most churches did not welcome the L.G.B.T.Q. community, anyone was welcome at local chapters of the Metropolitan Community Church, a gay-friendly group that has since grown to 160 affiliated churches and 19453 emerging churches in 33 countries worldwide.
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Many attend churches registered with the government, but at least half worship in unregistered churches, often with local authorities looking the other way.
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Provincial police chief Moazzam Jah Ansari told Reuters volunteers from churches were also being trained to conduct body searches and identify worshippers entering churches.
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Now, historically those have been churches—just realistically speaking, the place where most people found their common cause and common meaning was in churches.
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So we use libraries … IF: A lot of churches ... ... museums, churches, murals are all valid locations for within Ingress, when they were originally submitted.
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We don't shut down churches and schools just because kids have problems, and they probably have more problems in churches than they do online.
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Observers have seen the move against Early Rain, as well as two other high-profile churches, as a signal to churches to avoid politics.
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Fissures have opened within religions as some churches urge their followers to vote against same-sex marriage, while other churches have taken a neutral stance.
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Pastors at nearby churches undertook numerous security measures, including sleeping in their churches or in the church parking lots to ward off would-be arsons.
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The Anglican Communion, with about 85 million members in 165 countries, is the world's third-largest body of churches after the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
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In some parts of China, the Catholic populations of entire counties attend underground churches, and the party-controlled churches stand almost empty, their clergy ignored.
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Catholic churches in Daegu and Gwangju have suspended mass and other gatherings, while churches elsewhere saw declines in attendance on Sunday, especially among the elderly.
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The motivation to carve through all that bedrock to create the exquisite churches — and to then go into the churches and create all that detail.
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Several churches had banned the couple and called police on them when they vowed to "purge churches of evil influences," the newspaper reported, citing court documents.
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The clinic was established by evangelical churches in 1993; its annual budget, close to $300,000 in 2014, is met with donations from churches, individuals and businesses.
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Now, if you look at the National Council of Churches, the successor to the Federal Council of Churches, it's a shell of what it once was.
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This was more likely to be the case in evangelical churches than in mainline Protestant churches, and more likely in larger ones than in smaller ones.
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Even in prosperous Zhejiang, officials have ordered crosses that are too prominent to be torn off hundreds of Christian churches, and shut down unofficial "house churches".
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From a peak of more than 50 domestic congregations, the denomination had shrunk to only a few American churches and mission churches in several foreign countries.
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Most campaign finance reformers agree that big political money being run through churches — or worse yet invented churches set up for that purpose is a problem.
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This 18th-century Italian church is a perfect example of the major differences Robroek found between the Italian churches he visited and other churches around Europe.
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Within this category are Pentecostal churches that stem from a revival begun in America over a century ago; subgroups within established churches, which after 1960 began worshipping in a similar way; and newer churches that use Pentecostal style and language, with a fresh stress on prosperity.
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Since Sunday morning remains America's most segregated hour, experts separate "historically black Protestant" churches into their own group, and then divide the white churches into various segments.
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Most of these new parishes are either the churches which were destroyed and were built again, or these are churches which were in ruins and were restored.
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Catholic churches are much fuller in London, but many of the Brazilians, Filipinos and Nigerians who throng the capital's churches are outsiders to the British political process.
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We have Happy Ramadan signs in front of all of our churches, not all of them, but a big part of our churches in our religious community.
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That churches get tax emptions is a questionable idea in itself, and many good reasons for taxing churches (especially church property) and not exempting contributions to them exist.
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Floyd Long, was known as the "cussing preacher," a pugnacious man who built churches and left after clashing with the deacons -- those members who traditionally ran Baptist churches.
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Writing for the court, Justice Elena Kagan said the law's religious exemption applies to plans whether they were established by churches themselves or organizations affiliated with the churches.
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While official figures are imprecise, experts believe there are about 60 million Christians in China, with roughly half worshiping at state-sanctioned churches and half at unofficial churches.
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Guidelines have been drafted to better protect churches from theft and vandalism — with suggestions like having volunteers monitor churches, substituting valuables with copies and fixing artifacts in place.
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Think of segregated white churches during Jim Crow, or the many churches today, in our "post-racial" moment, that continue to be de facto segregated every Sunday morning.
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For a city of its size, there were a lot of churches in Invercargill — from large, traditional ones to contemporary churches, a mosque, and even a Mormon church.
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"Many seemingly progressive churches seem so only because they are young," religion writer Laura Turner wrote for Vox about this wave of churches that includes Hillsong and Zoe.
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In South Korea, Catholic churches in Daegu and Gwangju have suspended mass and other gatherings, while churches elsewhere saw declines in attendance on Sunday, especially among the elderly.
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One reason that the leaders of the conservative resurgence were alarmed by the drift toward the liberalism of mainline Protestant churches is that those churches' numbers were shrinking.
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"Young peoples' voices are not heard in churches, women of color are not heard in churches and gay people are really not heard," he said by phone on Sunday.
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Mr. Chen, introducing a government white paper on religious rights and practices, said that as a matter of policy there were "no underground churches or house churches" in China.
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While sermons at state-sanctioned churches are often tightly scripted, independent churches boom with searing indictments of corrupt officials and rousing calls to protect the rights of the poor.
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Many of the historic Protestant churches — Lutheranism, Calvinism, Presbyterianism, the Church of England — are now classified as mainline Protestant churches, which tend to be more socially and politically liberal.
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The new campaign is being organized by the Orthodox and mainline Protestant churches affiliated with the National Council of Churches and Church World Service, a charity that resettles refugees.
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And large churches like the Southern Baptist Convention, it&aposs really important that they actually have things in place in their churches where the pastors and the leadership can help.
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"Kler" was shot mainly in churches in the Czech Republic because getting permission to film in Polish churches would have taken too long, Smarzowski told the French TV channel Canal+.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing city authorities have banned one of the largest unofficial Protestant churches in the city and confiscated "illegal promotional materials", amid a deepening crackdown on China's "underground" churches.
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Suspect targeted black churches It's unclear what type of black metal Matthews listened to and whether or not it shaped his world view or influenced his attacks on the churches.
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The Southern Baptist Convention has 51,094 churches, and out of that, 10,300 of them are nonwhite churches, so we really want deeply to move forward in reaching multiethnic people, nonwhite people.
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"Given the number of Catholics there is a dire need for more churches in the UAE," he said, voicing hope that Saudi Arabia, where churches are banned, would also allow them.
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Chinese authorities harassed and imprisoned members of registered and unregistered religious groups, including members of unregistered Christian churches, or "house churches," for pursuing activities related to their religious beliefs and practices.
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They have also squabbled over efforts by Orthodox churches in some former Soviet territories to break their links with the Moscow church hierarchy and to establish their own independent Orthodox churches.
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Trump vows to 'destroy' law limiting political activity by churches: President Trump on Thursday vowed to "destroy" the Johnson Amendment, which prevents religious groups and churches from engaging in political activities.
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One of the churches erased was the majestic Saint Thomas cathedral of Agulis, originally founded as a chapel in the 1st century and one of the oldest churches in the world.
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Chinese Catholics are split between those who attend officially sanctioned churches run by government-approved bishops and technically illegal "underground" churches, the vast majority of which are loyal to the Vatican.
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This, in turn, gives rise to the trend of "storefront churches," something particularly popular in Pentecostal communities, and "house churches," in which members meet for Bible study at one another's homes.
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" The three churches, he added, "need emergency repair, now.
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"We will rebuild everything — homes, churches, businesses," he said.
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All of the major hotels — and churches — were crowded.
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Within a mile radius, the village in northern China's Hebei province hosts a Catholic church sanctioned by Chinese authorities, two large "underground" churches, and numerous smaller unofficial house churches, according to villagers.
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Jim Winkler, President and General Secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ, a partnership of some 38 U.S. churches and denominations, drew on the example of Christianity's Holy Family.
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A large proportion of China's Christians belong to independent Protestant churches, rather than officially sanctioned Christian denominations – so-called "house churches," whose members meet without state approval in private homes or buildings.
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For centuries, one of the key differences between the great Eastern and Western churches has been the subordination of Orthodox churches to temporal powers, and the relative independence of the Catholic one.
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Although many churches today have a bitter taste in their mouth when it comes to pentacles, in the medieval churches, pentacles were witch marks that served a specific function—one of protection.
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Many churches in the center of the US, where coronavirus is not yet as prevalent, have not taken any such measures, while churches in densely populated areas are already stepping up precautions.
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Correction: this article has been updated to reflect the fact that the schism means Russian Orthodox faithful may not receive sacraments at Constantinople-affiliated Orthodox churches, rather than non-Russian Orthodox churches.
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"At least half a dozen Catholic churches in the London area attract thousands every weekend and they'd be [called] mega-churches if they were Protestant," says Stephen Bullivant of St Mary's University.
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" And instead of expressing his concern for the members of the demolished churches in Zhejiang Province, he toed the party line and claimed the churches were bulldozed because of "structural safety concerns.
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It just might feel that way because so many other churches, specifically the churches that have catered to the bourgeois and the comfortably middle-class, have not prioritized that obligation for years.
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Much of this is driven by natural population aging, given that the evangelical churches tend to attract families with more kids and have been somewhat more popular with immigrants than the mainline churches.
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In Africa – in contrast to the North American and European churches – the power usually comes from below, the churches successfully gathering large congregations which then become attractive to politicians seeking endorsement and votes.
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Easing political activity rules for churches also raises questions about whether churches could be pulled into the campaign finance sphere and effectively become "dark money" committees that play partisan politics without disclosing donors.
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It was possible to communicate such "hot" topics to other people only in the sort of protected rooms of the churches, since the churches were granted a certain independence within the GDR system.
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When the government began reducing the public face of Christianity in one province by tearing crosses off the steeples of even government-run churches, Mr. Wang expressed no sympathy for the churches affected.
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Anglican churches had windows smashed and several priests were killed.
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There is blood on the hands of many black churches.
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Comer that the state cannot withhold taxpayer funding from churches.
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They were funded by the government and run by churches.
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To me, churches have always represented space outside of time.
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But churches can only be experienced within space and time.
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Yoga instructors and churches are working with Vimeo, for example.
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Some of the churches may be boobytrapped, the charity says.
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The way to please churches is to bring power back.
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About 1,000 delegates from those churches attend its annual meeting.
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In many European countries, the biggest buildings are the churches.
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Residents scattered, churches folded, and people fell out of touch.
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They've grown up in coal mining towns and Baptist churches.
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These churches are dying off at a very quick pace.
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But in some respects, the two churches have grown apart.
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It was only after 1500 that churches reversed their position.
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Suicide bombings at churches on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.
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Many people with addiction turn to churches and mosques instead.
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You don't have Martin Luther King apart from Black churches.
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The body in question is the World Council of Churches.
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Movie theaters are like churches to a lot of people.
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Even more people were staying in private shelters like churches.
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But schools, healthcare centers, and churches were damaged or destroyed.
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They also sever social ties, from churches to hunting clubs.
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One of those charismatic churches where people talk to snakes.
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I wish churches in America would pause to consider why.
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We received heartfelt wishes from other churches and city leaders.
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For example, the issue of the restoration of old churches.
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They have filmed themselves razing ancient temples, churches and mosques.
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Churches and governments have often tried to resist these changes.
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Did the churches look real at all on set, Wilson?
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We give everybody fire protection, but let churches burn down?
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All they were there was to listen into Muslim churches.
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They argue the Johnson Amendment stifles churches' First Amendment rights.
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"We are giving our churches their voices back," Trump said.
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For them, a few churches isn't going to do it.
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We were invited to churches, invited to form multifaith councils.
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A draft law would make it easier to build churches.
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I basically wanted to incorporate my lifestyle with the churches.
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Investors who see the importance of churches will find deals.
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Maybe churches and schools can take on public education campaigns.
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Such food banks are found in 14% of British churches.
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At some churches, Christians have protested and scuffled with police.
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People were to believe and act as their churches dictated.
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Churches and other volunteers distributed the firewood throughout the community.
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Communism, tearing down churches, causing food shortages, sending people to
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Churches, chambers of commerce, journalists, and politicians were brought onboard.
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After the blaze, some churches refused to bury the victims.
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Once again, it was clear black churches were not safe.
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Clinton in churches and barbershops from Ohio to South Carolina.
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In their absence, neighbors and churches can play compensatory roles.
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Clinton spent Sunday speaking to congregants at several black churches.
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A hardscrabble history Signs pointing to churches dot the roadways.
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"With @GDouglasJones, visiting churches in Birmingham this morning," Booker wrote.
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Local churches also offered the congregation a place to worship.
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"Its one of the biggest [churches] in Detroit," Rayyan wrote.
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Churches, mosques and synagogues can advocate for imprisoned religious leaders.
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As a Christian, he has also led several underground churches.
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Some killers have even picked churches for precisely this reason.
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In addition, invest in local organizations, associations, churches and movements.
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In our black churches, the women are very pulled together.
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He is an ordained minister of the American Baptist Churches.
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Churches and other houses of worship have also been exempt.
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"Some house churches have to sacrifice," he told the Journal.
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Churches, mosques and hospitals came under attack, the team said.
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These same styles of curses are found in medieval churches.
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While both are Catholic churches, the two institutions are separate.
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I was also taking photos of churches and bleeding Christs.
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"It's the same in France, with churches," Mr. Tollu said.
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They formed churches, shaped the free press and influenced politics.
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Churches, minority communities, gay nightclubs, politicians and journalists are threatened.
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The churches were sliced up but the crypt remained underground.
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Churches will remain open for private prayer, the archdiocese said.
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Churches sponsor orphanages and send numerous teams to help out.
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What we saw in East Texas was the churches flipped.
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Only the complete exemption offered to actual churches would suffice.
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Maybe the era of broad churches and consensus is over.
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Like libraries, they were for learning; like churches, for reflection.
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"It's the cathedral saying some churches are different," Robinson said.
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Both the Russian and Ukrainian churches would forfeit a lot.
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A majority of the Communion's member churches now ordain women.
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"This shows how we sang in our churches," she said.
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Churches have been asked to house homeless individuals as well.
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Various churches dot the central Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights.
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Here are some notable previous fatal shootings at churches. Sept.
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Construction of Christian churches is subject to onerous government restrictions.
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And the churches love Donald Trump and I love them.
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"They are happening in grocery stores, churches, synagogues and streets."
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It marks the first day of Lent in Western churches.
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Performances will take place in theaters, churches and warehouses Nov.
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Neither he nor Congress had churches in mind at all.
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Churches are being burned and faithful people are being slaughtered.
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The policy soon evolved to razing churches to the ground.
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But the backbone of the movement is America's conservative churches.
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Next, churches can also enjoy the benefits of dark money.
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Even in Dr. King's day, black churches were not unified.
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What of the churches interspersed with the mosques in Medan?
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There are so many churches that skew so much older.
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That means they, unlike Cuba's churches, cannot do big campaigns.
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But right now, everybody is going to the evangelical churches.
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Some men in contemporary churches are accused of similar behavior.
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Churches and civic organizations are among those providing financial support.
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There are 2,869 churches in Egypt, compared with 108,395 mosques.
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Most churches are still standing, but badly damaged and ransacked.
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They argue the Johnson amendment stifles churches' First Amendment rights.
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He said those churches will continue and expand Zanis' ministry.
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He said some of the area's churches were entirely white.
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Some kidnapped children from preschools, churches, and playgrounds for her.
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During the day, Ms. Hutchinson ate and showered at churches.
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As a kid, I sang in churches and nursing homes.
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In the '80s, mostly white, Protestant churches led the way.
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Families and churches swiftly circled to protect their young men.
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On Sundays, Harris and Gibbs explored the city's black churches.
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All of them go to similarly conservative churches in Dallas.
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Yeah, I run out of churches, before they fall down.
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The fact that our churches are autonomous is no excuse.
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Some churches have allowed developers to build on their property.
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We attend churches that bar us from their highest posts.
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Construction of new churches is restricted in much of Egypt.
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"In the Midwest, we do drag in churches," she said.
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Where there are established state churches, religious attendance is lower.
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