As of May 280, only 23,225 of those were congregations (which includes congregations of all religions).
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Hundreds of congregations are supporting the Sanctuary Movement and several UCC congregations are opening their doors to individuals facing deportation orders.
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Successful developments by congregations have caught the attention of higher-level church leaders - with one group now working with Episcopal congregations throughout Virginia, for instance.
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It is often said by members of the congregations that the tragedy had concentric circles of grief: the families, the congregations, the local Jewish community, the larger Pittsburgh community and on out.
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The president divides families and Jewish congregations, admits the rabbi.
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Today, there are hundreds of congregations in dozens of countries.
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They briefly stopped attending services and searched for new congregations.
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Protestant denominations are also taking note of their congregations' needs.
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Congregations are pretty good at sniffing out insincerity, she said.
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But there's also something structural; congregations are under real financial strain.
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Evangelicals care viscerally about the rights of missionaries and congregations overseas.
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Other congregations said a prayer for the victims of sexual abuse.
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Faith leaders are asking for help mitigating conflicts within their congregations.
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Or, in other congregations: beef and broccoli, some moo shu pork.
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The same caveat applies to that lusty singing of whole congregations.
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His church has more than 100 congregations spread around the country.
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Shincheonji claims 150,000 members and has 12 congregations in South Korea.
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As of last year, 312,373 of those organizations are religious congregations.
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It also urges congregations and ministers to abide by all reporting laws.
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This heightened spiritual awareness brings communities and congregations together across the globe.
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Many unofficial (mainly Protestant) churches have been razed and congregations broken up.
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Indeed, giving up on physical congregations has been discouraged for some time.
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It has a new cathedral, 16 new churches and some 700 congregations.
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Congregations were told that many businesspeople had behaved like gamblers and hucksters.
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Jones remains a bishop within COGIC and oversees congregations across New Mexico.
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Early reports suggested that those injured and killed reflected these diverse congregations.
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Religious leaders have openly urged their congregations not to vote for women.
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Several congregations withdrew from the church in part because of that decision.
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Three congregations gathered in one synagogue that morning because of dwindling numbers.
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The congregations and labor and community allies came in with 20,603 signatures.
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The number of congregations that have signed up to partner with Life.
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In many black congregations it's a big deal to join the choir.
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There were prayers and readings of formal condolences from officeholders and congregations.
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The Internal Revenue Service has occasionally investigated other congregations without taking action.
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Yet nearly all of the publicly declared congregations are Christian and Jewish.
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Imams have been asked to encourage their congregations to register to vote.
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Either number would make it one of the tiniest congregations in the world.
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Major congregations live-stream their services and upload their pastors' sermons onto YouTube.
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Pearson has since left the Pentecostal movement, whose congregations still suffer racial divisions.
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More than half (54%) said it's because they haven't felt welcomed by congregations.
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Today, 20 percent of SBC member churches do not have predominantly white congregations.
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They tried to open fire on packed train cars and on church congregations.
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Members of all three congregations took turns reading the portions of the Torah.
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Or maybe the donations the Georgia Dome receives can go toward their congregations.
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Meanwhile, clergy are less likely to talk about politics in politically divided congregations.
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That night the cycle starts all over again with another set of congregations.
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In some congregations boys conduct an entire service while females have a party.
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Powerful people called board members of synagogues and churches in Greater Cleveland Congregations.
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Trilobites Researchers demonstrated that plant-worms rotate in circular congregations along Atlantic beaches.
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Gunmen have opened fire on Jewish congregations in Pittsburgh and in Poway, Calif.
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At Sunday's service, the rabbis of the three congregations embraced after tearful tributes.
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Many congregations across faiths are offering sanctuary just as Shadow Rock UCC did.
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Gunmen have opened fire on Jewish congregations in Pittsburgh and in Poway, Calif.
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Several more cheering congregations propped me up along the rest of the ride.
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Although the diversity of congregations is growing nationwide, eight in 10 Americans still attend a house of worship in which one ethnic group makes up at least 80 percent of the congregation, according to the most recent National Congregations Study.
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The other interesting thing that's happened [in contemporary Christianity] is this splitting of church into two types of services: the smaller devotional congregations and then the arena entertainment-based congregations, which are much more outgoing and communal, like Abundant Life.
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But the invitations to give congregations tours of VR Church had not been forthcoming.
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Churches provide migrants in their congregations with employment, support and the possibility of advancement.
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But if the individual congregations for each are small, their cumulative effect is not.
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Long's previous appearance on Baylor's list changed how some congregations regarded him, he says.
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American-style Pentecostal congregations are also playing an increasingly muscular role in Brazilian politics.
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But Fleurhof dam is not the only water source with religious significance for congregations.
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Then congregations in the Research Triangle of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill followed suit.
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I organized local religious congregations and several human rights organizations to pool their resources.
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Happily for him, one of his father's congregations was in Russia, near St. Petersburg.
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There are much bigger temples in the area, and others with more visible congregations.
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The number of congregations in New York is actually increasing, according to census records.
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But it is adding new members and congregations nearly every year, said the Rev.
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Critics will try to measure the sincerity of the congregations' beliefs, Ms. Rodriguez said.
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Chosen to give the address to the congregations, Bishop Curry quoted Martin Luther King.
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They brought letters and children's drawings from their congregations as part of their efforts.
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The churches that will close because their congregations collapse and contributions go way down?
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Bayonne Muslims is speaking with lawyers and other congregations who have faced similar challenges.
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It's a question that faith leaders have to answer before their congregations every day.
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But the new rules could bring in even more, including some from primarily black congregations.
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As is often the case with mainstream religions, misconceptions about sisters and their congregations abound.
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Congregations in Kinshasa and 12 other cities marched out of their churches after Sunday mass.
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But, she hopes the group will come around to the idea of women leading congregations.
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Soon after his mission, Fisher began attending a "family ward" -- Mormon congregations open to all.
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Weiss' father walked through the facility to check on the safety of the other congregations.
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It's not just a marriage of two people, but it's a marriage of two congregations.
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Those efforts brought new life and energy to congregations and communities across this great nation.
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Our congregations do not want to see partisan campaign politics injected into our weekly services.
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Only in front of the cameras and congregations are the Gemstones paragons of virtuous living.
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Several new congregations have come forward to say they want to host someone in sanctuary.
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Mostly, congregations across denominations and doctrinal divides are uniting to offer spiritual support where needed.
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The authorities have demolished hundreds of Protestant churches, knocking crosses off steeples and evicting congregations.
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"In mainline churches, clergy tend to be more progressive than their congregations," Mr. Pagitt added.
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The churches, which were empty at the time of the fires, had predominantly black congregations.
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The diocese has more than 70 congregations in southeastern lower Michigan, according to the diocese.
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Correction: This story has been updated with the correct number of congregations in the diocese.
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Otis Moss III, senior pastor of one of the largest predominately black congregations in Chicago.
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Bullets tearing through our classrooms, concerts and congregations, targeting our sake — safest and sacred places.
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The "viri probati" proposal is backed by all Catholic congregations in the Vicariate of Yurimaguas.
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The event was hosted by Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, a member agency of FPWA.
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These are the finest of the churches, and yet they're having difficulty replenishing their congregations.
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Many congregations offered direct sanctuary, housing the undocumented immigrants, while others offered food and legal assistance.
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There are 12 congregations here, there are three medical clinics here, there's a food ministry here.
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The Catholic Church said it hosts thousands of these migrants in hotels within dioceses or congregations.
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Ghana has 700 Christian sects, according to the World Christian Database, and around 71,000 individual congregations.
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Church elders were not afraid that congregations would start tapping their toes or swinging their partners.
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When a prominent man of God like Roberts rejects a minister, congregations divide along factional lines.
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The initiative is expanding to enlist Baptist congregations across the country to unite across racial lines.
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There are other times when even the best pastors can hardly speak before their own congregations.
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Subsequent legislation restored a chaplaincy program so that inmates could connect with churches and other congregations.
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Most temples' dues-paying congregations are shrinking as a result of social change and rural depopulation.
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The group, founded 85033 years ago, is funded by contributions from Quaker congregations around the country.
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Esperanza's network is over 14,000 Hispanic congregations and community non-profits — from Roman Catholic to Pentecostal.
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Dozens of rabbis let us know how they and their congregations have reacted to the massacre.
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Church leaders found themselves in a difficult but sadly familiar position, as they faced their congregations.
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Church leaders fear the law could target members of their congregations who volunteer in the mainland.
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Many mainstream churches post signs warning undercover Shincheonji missionaries not to try to infiltrate their congregations.
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When I first started photographing in Harlem, in the 1970s, its grand churches had thriving congregations.
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In considering whether to offer sanctuary, congregations look for immigrants with viable cases and sympathetic stories.
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For many congregations, this will likely mean welcoming gay members and their families with open arms.
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Health officials met with rabbis and pediatricians, who sounded the alarm to their congregations and patients.
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But at the temple, where a mass shooting left six dead five years ago, it felt sickeningly familiar, as it had at congregations in South Carolina and Tennessee and New York, places on the grim list of religious congregations that have become victims of gun violence.
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East Brooklyn Congregations, a nonprofit comprising congregations, schools and homeowners associations, had sent two residents of the New York City Housing Authority — whose tenants are about 90 percent black and Latino — to confront Mr. de Blasio over the city's failure to improve conditions at the housing projects.
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Three congregations were conducting Sabbath services in the synagogue when the attack began just before 10 a.m.
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Across America, white pastors struggled with how to address and respond to Charlottesville before their white congregations.
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" These congregations meet on Sundays and some "include 'Sunday School', where children go while parents attend 'services.
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Greg Epstein is the longtime Humanist chaplain at Harvard University and an advocate for godless congregations, a.k.a.
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On three Sundays, congregations in Kinshasa marched out of church after mass waving palm fronds and placards.
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A conservative faction rebelled against Van Raalte's plan to fuse with Dutch Reformed congregations in New York.
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Congregations are hemorrhaging parishioners and confidence in the church is falling in the U.S. at unprecedented rates.
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In the church itself, few have the financial expertise required, though congregations could be a valuable source.
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Some congregations now sing the national anthem during services, according to a house church pastor named Liu.
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And in 2010, it adopted a resolution urging its congregations to be active in preventing gun violence.
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According to Weiss, the synagogue building hosts three congregations, which were holding separate events, including a bris.
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Reverend Vavatau Taufao said fa'afafine were welcomed into the church and that many contributed to their congregations.
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"The people I'm dealing with — clergy and congregations — are babes in the woods," Ms. Kelman put it.
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Some of its most popular products—Facebook, Twitter, other social networking sites—can function like secularized congregations.
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It encompassed 400 congregations (including Columbus Mennonite) and comprised 60,13-70,000 participants, according to anthropologist Hilary Cunningham.
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In a savvy move, he targeted pastors, likely realizing the massive influence they exerted over their congregations.
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A third or more of China's estimated nine million to 12 million Catholics worship in underground congregations.
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Here are some examples of how the pandemic is already affecting congregations and believers throughout the world.
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None of Mormonism's 30,000 congregations will gather for sacrament meetings this Sunday, or for the near future.
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It simply said UAHC Camp Swig staff, which she knew stood for Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan has disregarded questions about the mosque congregations during his interactions with the media.
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Episcopalians followed suit in 2018, expanding the right of gay congregants to get married in all congregations.
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Our congregations will continue to witness to a God who loves everyone regardless of race or creed.
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Established just after the Civil War, Mount Zion Baptist Church is one of Nashville's oldest black congregations.
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The mission of PICO and LA Voice is clear and simple: Help congregations turn faith into action.
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And the debate over which Jewish values should take precedence is dividing religious families and congregations alike.
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At the time of the shooting, three different congregations were holding services at the Tree of Life.
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They go to prominent megachurches as well as small Southern Baptist, nondenominational and even mainline Protestant congregations.
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All the important work that's done by moms and dads and families and congregations in every state.
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In early February, a pastoral letter from the church was read out in congregations across the country.
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Surveying congregation demographics between 1998 and 2012, the study found an increase in the number of multiracial congregations.
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The congregations that have lasted have had to migrate often, as users grow tired with the faddish platforms.
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Northview asked their congregations for a little more this time, $2000 or $24 rather than the typical one.
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We pastor "purple churches" -- congregations that are economically, racially and politically diverse, strong in faith, active in community.
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But the seminary did receive financial contributions from Southern sources, including slaveowners and congregations with ties to slavery.
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Around the time, three congregations amounting to about 100 people would have been using the building, Eisenberg said.
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Ammar is the head of Marseille's Israeli Consistory, a council that presides over the city's local Jewish congregations.
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"Congregations of such high density are walking time-bombs and public disorder incidents waiting to happen," she added.
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Chinese authorities have issued warnings to Christian pastors, explaining the threat posed to their congregations by the sect.
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The pastors of Pentecostal mega-churches promise their congregations God-sent fortunes in return for a 10% tithe.
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Each of the three Jewish congregations that meet at Tree of Life synagogue lost at least one member.
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Mayor Peduto, a Democrat, said a presidential visit would be a distraction while congregations are burying their dead.
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Student Opinion On Saturday, a gunman opened fire on Jewish congregations in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
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For instance, Greater Cleveland Congregations, a multi-faith community organizing group, has increasingly made job-creation a focus.
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In the past year numerous house churches (informal congregations which often meet in people's homes) have been shut.
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Religious leaders ponder whether selling their buildings to developers is really the best way to protect their congregations.
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But the congregations are old and shrinking, often reliant on homemade pierogi sales to pay for basic repairs.
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Congregations find themselves defending the development — and even the destruction — of their homes in the name of survival.
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Such gestures help to explain why the Bach Passions have long found an audience far beyond Lutheran congregations.
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And decades of declining congregations in the United States offer an opportunity to faith communities interested in farming.
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Last Sunday, no other temples turned up at a meeting intended to encourage others to become sanctuary congregations.
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"There are cases, usually in new congregations and in some regions more than others," Francis said on Tuesday.
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In the past decade, three bishops have been convicted for the sexual abuse of children in their congregations.
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"You couldn't possibly pay her for all she did," said Sheila Bennett, an administrator with East Brooklyn Congregations.
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The following day, children attended traditional Sunday school classes at other congregations under the watch of neighborhood police.
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My main focus has been getting into churches throughout the state and talking to the pastors and their congregations.
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There are fewer than 300,000 Catholics in Taiwan, with some congregations made up nearly entirely of Filipino migrant workers.
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Police surrounded 134 churches in Kinshasa alone, beat and tear-gassed churchgoers, and shot live rounds into fleeing congregations.
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The funds will be split among 27 projects in 16 Mexican dioceses and religious congregations, according to the release.
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In Nigeria congregations with names like the "Victory Bible Church" hang banners saying things like "Success is my Birthright".
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Some synagogues as well as churches in America host Muslim Friday prayers for congregations lacking a space to worship.
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While relatively few congregations define themselves as preachers of the "prosperity gospel," elements of the theology saturate American culture.
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It also urges congregations and ministers to abide by all laws mandating the reporting of sexual abuse and assault.
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In one respect, the two congregations, one on a deserted mountain, the other in a crowded church, are similar.
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"I would love to see 1,000 sanctuary congregations say, we refuse to live by these rules," Pastor Miller said.
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She liked her congregations to do the singing, not as a performance but as an expression of divine harmony.
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Persistent surveillance allows users to track mosque congregations, protesters, abortion clinic visitors, Alcoholics Anonymous members, and gun show attendees.
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Pearson's doctrine isn't new—it's called universal reconciliation, and many universalist congregations consider it a tenet of their faith.
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Hostility towards church-building means that growing Christian congregations are meeting in warehouses and empty shops, says a clergyman.
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The Rabinnical Assembly, the international association of Conservative rabbis, has issued guidelines that suggest congregations could stream the reading.
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Around Milan, the faithful could visit churches only for private prayer, and could not sit together in large congregations.
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James's subject was not theories of heaven nor different types of congregations; it was each congregant at 3 a.m.
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A few congregations even replaced the gnarled ram's horn blown on the high holidays with a shiny brass trumpet.
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In some congregations deacons scold female churchgoers for keeping their hair short and suggest that they try weaves instead.
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We asked rabbis to tell us how they and their congregations have reacted to Saturday's massacre, and dozens responded.
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For one thing, most American congregations are relatively small, and lack the staff or the budget for extensive security.
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Rabbis encourage their congregations to follow health procedures Other leaders have taken proactive steps, including sending notices to worshippers.
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Many others rushed to the defense of the church, which is home to one of the nation's largest congregations.
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A 2014 survey of pastors found that most church leaders significantly underestimated the level of abuse in their congregations.
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He says more than 2,000 congregations have trained in rapid response across the country, most of them in California.
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And in the 1980s, congregations opened their doors to Central Americans fleeing wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
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Every year since 2010, Jehovah's Witnesses congregations from New Jersey and New York have met there once a year.
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He'd regularly draw congregations of fans, who'd wander the halls examining the art, stills, and artifacts from movie sets.
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And I met with ministers in Waco who are helping their congregations find deeper meaning in a changing world.
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Adams further described his grandfather as a conservative who frequently donated to Christian churches with both black and white congregations.
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Many of the women-led congregations open their communities to divorced, gay, and transgender members, people excluded from the Church.
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Like Biden, both have hired faith coordinators to connect with local pastors, who act as campaign conduits to their congregations.
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Yet some worry that these young, vibrant churches are not winning new converts as intended, but rather cannibalising existing congregations.
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Many of the survivors grew up in these three congregations, the children of older members whose roots ran even deeper.
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The governor and the mayor spoke briefly, but most of the time was given to leaders of the three congregations.
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The article went on to outline how "constant love" from families and congregations can decrease risk factors for LGBT youth.
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Among those who took part in the massive protest three days later were political parties, student groups and church congregations.
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In conversations with churchgoers, Hollas said, none could remember a time when their congregations had specifically spoken about gun violence.
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The UdV, which is rather tightly organized and involves long-term membership in congregations, established a branch in New Mexico.
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Congregations have latched onto an estimate by UNICEF that there are 123m orphans in the world, declaring an "orphan crisis".
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This would of course disqualify Catholic nuns and priests who take vows of celibacy though not vows concerning multicultural congregations.
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"Ideally it would have gone to one of the congregations, but none of them could afford it," Sister Vercelline said.
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That year, the law center saw churches with predominantly black congregations burned to the ground, among other incidents, she said.
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But as congregations across the country and the world weighed whether to stay open, experts in Islamic law stepped in.
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Houses of worship are dealing with calls to close or limit the number of people allowed to enter their congregations.
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Black Christians joined white-majority congregations, either called by God to integrate or drawn to a different, shorter worship style.
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Large Christian ministries were dedicated to the aim of integration, and many black Christians decided to join white-majority congregations.
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If we're to underwrite this arena, the congregations said, Gilbert should agree to pour an equal sum into community services.
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Lacking one centralized leader, they live in local congregations or "church districts," each made up of 20 to 40 families.
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At church services, pastors urged their congregations to fill their lives with love, not hate — a message echoed by Gov.
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Across the city, financially struggling religious congregations, facing dwindling attendance and shrinking donations, are looking for other sources of revenue.
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One reason they don't is that some of what those congregations offer is already embodied in liberal politics and culture.
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For example, its affiliate in Fayetteville relies on 13 local congregations whose members have been preparing for the new arrivals.
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Now, often beset by tourists, these edifices are emptying as their congregations shrink or simply become too expensive to maintain.
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I grew up attending churches surrounded by parking lots and populated by congregations that didn't connect their spirituality to ecology.
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Planning for the future Retrofitting buildings for solar power is another way Green The Church is making congregations more sustainable.
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Linden called his parents, who belong to one of three congregations that meet at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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Governors and mayors, teachers and lawyers, faith leaders and congregations vowed to resist any efforts to demonize the foreign-born.
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MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA * Saudi Arabia said its mosques would no longer receive worshippers for daily prayers or Friday congregations.
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If the One Church Plan prevails, congregations in Africa and Asia might start preparing to form an independent Methodist church.
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In Judaism, the dead traditionally need to be buried within 24 hours, so other congregations came forward to offer space.
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While not all congregations are accepting of LGBTQ people, several others have recently made headlines for taking leadership at their churches.
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For example, in the Southern Baptist Convention — the single largest evangelical Protestant group — half of all new churches have nonwhite congregations.
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The flock is still growing in the developing world and migration from poor countries is reinvigorating tired congregations in the West.
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It holds 5.8 billion euros ($6.6 billion) in assets for clients around the world - primarily congregations, dioceses and other Catholic institutions.
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It is still unclear whether the two other congregations that worshiped in that building — New Light and Dor Hadash — will return.
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Novices are particularly vulnerable because they often need a letter from their parish priest to be accepted into certain religious congregations.
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Church elders (who oversee congregations) had recommended Campos mentor Lopez, because Lopez's father and stepfather were not members of the church.
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Take the report Hidalgo cited, which found that the top 100 largest evangelical congregations in the US are not LGBT-affirming.
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In the two centuries since its establishment, it has grown into roughly 7,000 congregations along with associated colleges and theological institutions.
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The largest congregations are in South Korea and the Philippines, where dazzlingly large mega-churches hold tens of thousands of people.
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As of January 2018, there were more than 1,110 congregations in the sanctuary movement, and the number has grown since then.
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Winkler said a key to the FCNL's success is its strong support among Quaker congregations and the resulting strong fundraising mechanism.
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Other faith lobbying offices have been shrinking in recent years as their budgets — a share of their congregations' budgets — have dropped.
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The priests steal money from their congregations, spy on each other, and exploit their connections with politicians, journalists and the police.
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Not all online church is so flashy — many congregations simply stream their services for those who just can't make it in.
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During Johnson's tenure, Nate Snyder says, his office received calls from evangelical pastors worried about far-right recruitment in their congregations.
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Many white evangelicals say they want to cultivate diverse congregations and dispel the liberal image of the racist, pro-Trump evangelical.
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Not long after, the congregations cut a sad little deal for a couple of mental health centers and withdrew their petitions.
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A Vietnam veteran who was staying there encouraged him to go to church, and Volz started attending services, trying different congregations.
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Many clergy members, however, say they see no reason to lift the prohibition, because making political endorsements could divide their congregations.
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Schism will be painful for some because it will force individual congregations to decide which denomination to affiliate with going forward.
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NATHAN J. DIAMENT Washington The writer is executive director for public policy for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.
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Wise and Lilienthal edited national Jewish magazines where they publicized these innovative Hanukkah assemblies, encouraging other congregations to establish their own.
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Even so, I argued nonreligious people should learn from the ways religious communities build congregations to generate mutual support and inspiration.
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A native of Newark, New Jersey, he had been trained as a cantor — the clergyman charged with leading Jewish congregations in song.
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Experts trace the latest wave of troubles back to 2009, when Orthodox activists and local authorities began aggressively pursuing members and congregations.
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It seemed like you were trying to show that what you call this "religion" even has its own rituals, its own congregations.
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To accommodate the differences between these two forms of Protestant doctrine, the PKN had to embrace some theological freedom for member congregations.
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That's not to say terrorists haven't been part of mosque congregations, or that some mosques have preached or encouraged violence and extremism.
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Many media outlets have been shut down and all Crimea's 22 congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses have been effectively outlawed, the report said.
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The Cabinet secretaries and the vice president joined Graham in prayer, bowing their heads along with about 100 people from local congregations.
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THERE is an old story that puritanical Scottish preachers used to tell their congregations about sinners cast into the fires of hell.
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During the alleged abuse, Lawrence was part of the Body of Elders, the group appointed to oversee various Jehovah's Witness congregations worldwide.
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The study's authors encouraged at-risk congregations to lead by example, such as by raising the level of their buildings if possible.
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But both congregations have learned firsthand that there is darkness in the world, as much as people may want to deny it.
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Shincheonji said that disgruntled former members and traditional churches alarmed over their shrinking congregations had spread false rumors to discredit the church.
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They are some of the most dynamic congregations in China, and widely seen as the fastest-growing religious group in the country.
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The muting of the #MeToos of the Bible is a direct reflection of the culture of silence at work in our congregations.
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Do it for your friends and neighbors, town and cities: Thriving congregations have spillover effects that even anti-Trump marches can't match.
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"You have these toxic communities trying to infect more mainstream congregations with xenophobia, Islamophobia and threats of mass violence," Mr. Decker said.
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Now, about once a month, he gives speeches where he tells war stories, usually to students and sometimes at libraries or congregations.
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Rabinowitiz, 66, was a member of Dor Hadash -- one of three congregations scheduled to celebrate Sabbath on Saturday at Tree of Life.
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In 1969 he wrote a rock version of the Jewish Sabbath service, "Shabbat for Today," which was taken up by congregations worldwide.
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While some congregations may be homogeneous in their political views and beliefs about societal issues, many faith communities are much more diverse.
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Chick was reportedly an Independent Baptist, part of a collection of loosely affiliated independent fundamentalist congregations that see themselves as a remnant.
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As soon as the Sabbath ended, members of Orthodox congregations and others who had been unable to attend the earlier vigil gathered.
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This is what I realized: It's easy to talk about unscrupulous pastors who get rich off of unsuspecting congregations and have absolute power.
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They noted similarities between Emanuel AME and Branch AME, as both churches have predominantly black congregations and held Bible studies on Wednesday nights.
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Three different congregations had been meeting for regular Shabbat services inside the large building in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood when the gunman entered.
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Even so, Karl Wilding of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations says numbers of faith-based groups that are not congregations are increasing.
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Beginning in the 248s, however, the ranks of Pentecostal and evangelical clergy, as well as the pews of their congregations, began to swell.
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The synagogue was reportedly hosting three congregations on Saturday — Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life — and none of them escaped unscathed.
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She is the founder of Interfaith Power and Light an association which groups congregations and faith communities in at least 38 American states.
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Under the regime of laïcité, or strict secularism, municipalities took over formal responsibility for Catholic churches; clerics and their congregations are merely users.
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They are evangelists who have built television ministries reaching millions of Americans, and Pentecostal preachers who have turned storefront churches into thriving congregations.
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Anglo-Catholic congregations had worshipped here, under the hammer-beam roof and monuments to heroes of Napoleonic wars, for nigh on two centuries.
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The three churches destroyed by the fires have mostly black congregations, raising authorities' suspicion that the fires may be racially motivated hate crimes.
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But many Chinese worship outside the government's official churches, mosques and temples, in unauthorized congregations that the party worries could challenge its authority.
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Only a small portion of these congregations have physically sheltered immigrants, because ultimately, it's not up to a church to make that decision.
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Church congregations typically skew more female than male, but at one point more than half of the Christian Cultural Center's membership was male.
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"Hatred and supremacy proudly marching in our streets; bullets tearing through our classrooms, concerts and congregations, targeting our safest, sacred places," Kennedy said.
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"Permitting electioneering in churches would give partisan groups incentive to use congregations as a conduit for political activity and expenditures," the groups wrote.
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"The examples of environmental stewardship set by congregations can resonate far beyond (the house of worship's) walls," said Climate Central in a statement.
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But it appeared that Jacobs had been involved in theological disputes with other leaders of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations, NBC reported.
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But tell that story in your local newspapers; talk to your local reporters, congregations that are involved in caring for those in need.
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We asked rabbis across the country to let us know how they and their congregations have reacted to the massacre, and dozens responded.
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For those who are attending in person, religious communities are taking new precautions to help prevent the spread of coronavirus within their congregations.
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The way Keith sees it ... until mentally ill people are forbidden from owning guns, preachers and congregations need to help God help them.
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One of the congregations was holding a bris, a ceremony which typically takes places on the eighth day of a newborn boy's life.
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Rabbis across North America told us how they are comforting their congregations and securing their synagogues in the wake of the Pittsburgh shooting.
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In our quest to understand the ripple effects of the shooting, we would like to hear how rabbis are helping their congregations cope.
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According to the Pew Research Center, in 2012, only 11 percent of American congregations were led by women, a number unchanged since 1998.
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Donna Schaper, the senior pastor at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, where five congregations share a single space to help defray costs.
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There were 13,21 congregations in Brooklyn in 2000, up from 22008 in 2000, records show, with large gains in Manhattan and Queens, too.
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Negotiations also focused on ironing out financial differences, like how pensions and funding will be allocated to those congregations that will be leaving.
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His wife cleans the Slavic Grace Baptist Church, one of several Ukrainian congregations where women must cover their heads and wear long skirts.
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"Sure go ahead and invite two white men who run Reform congregations, both of whom are Zionists," Dr. Brager said in one message.
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His melodies and harmony parts were easy to teach to amateur ensembles, and congregations were sure to know them, and to sing along.
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Yet despite the risks, the small temple has been unexpectedly public, unlike most other local sanctuary congregations, which have taken a lower profile.
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Yet the case in Houston rattled congregations across the country, and clergy are understandably reticent to submit their sermons for approval every week.
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But advocates and service providers — with assistance from everyone from church congregations to major airlines — have stepped in as an impromptu welcoming committee.
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According to Weiss, the synagogue building hosts three congregations, which were holding separate events including a service in one area and a bris downstairs.
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Meanwhile, despite their egalitarian impulses, these congregations always had an authoritarian, patriarchal bent, the chain of command running from God to husbands and fathers.
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Sometimes, it begins at church—Age and her team work to make sure local African American congregations are affirming of an HIV prevention message.
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The three congregations that shared the Tree of Life synagogue are taking different approaches one year after a mass shooting left 11 worshipers dead.
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Worshippers from the three congregations housed inside the synagogue, Tree of Life, Dor Hadash and New Life have all been displaced since the shooting.
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The 10 questions required to receive a recommend are uniform in congregations across the world and none require members to state their sexual identity.
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Making gun violence prevention a priority The Presbyterian Church USA has more than 1.7 million members in more than 10,000 congregations, its website says.
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McCarrick was also well-known in Rome, serving on a host of Vatican congregations before he retired, including the Pontifical Council for Latin America.
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During its Faith Climate Action Week, IPL gave away copies of Before the Flood to whomever asked for one, which was about 1,000 congregations.
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Gibson screened Passion for pastors and congregations, creating a grassroots momentum that paid off massively when the movie made it to shopping-mall cineplexes.
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In Mobile, Alabama, thousands of people dress up in pointy ears to join one of the largest congregations of elves in the world: Elfapalooza!
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Shrinking congregations and growing repair bills are typically the fatal combination: about a quarter of Sunday services are attended by fewer than 22007 parishioners.
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The turnover has produced tension in some parishes, but on the whole, Catholics have taken pains to welcome Latinos into their new, American congregations.
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They're not standing at the pulpit and telling their congregations who to vote for — that would run afoul of IRS rules governing nonprofit organizations.
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The Muslim congregations have contributed to their larger communities and worked side by side with other religious organizations to promote tolerance, charity and understanding.
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The church leaders could choose to volunteer information to their congregations if they wanted, or they may have simply had private discussions with men.
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Recordings of a 14-year-old Ms. Franklin performing in churches — playing piano and belting gospel standards to ecstatic congregations — were released in 1956.
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Yet while many churches, temples, and other houses of worship have switched to virtual religious services, some Americans say their congregations are still gathering.
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Tom Harrison of Asbury United Methodist Church, one of Tulsa's largest congregations, in organizing a prayer service that included a former Tulsa police officer.
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Less than two miles away, agents filed in and out of the site of the massacre: Tree of Life Synagogue, which houses three congregations.
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The African Methodist Episcopal denomination was one of the first Protestant churches created by black people, and has several thousand congregations around the country.
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Even at mid-century, when the religious revival of the 1950s brought millions of new members to local congregations, many of these patterns prevailed.
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Two security guards for 13 hours costs more than $1,000 a day, Rabbi Bisno said, a cost prohibitive for many congregations, especially smaller ones.
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One of my favorite things to think about with CrossFit is — Christian congregations will say the Lord's Prayer at the same time every week.
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But increasingly Bread of Life is seeing Chinese-led congregations forming across the continent, as more Chinese move to Africa and interact with local values.
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Exact numbers were not available, but villagers suggested that the congregations of the official church and Pei's were roughly similar, while Dong attracted slightly fewer.
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Both men had previously been leaders in a lower church governing body, and had occupied a number of volunteer positions, or "callings," in local congregations.
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And congregations in gurdwaras as far away as Melbourne, Australia, have honored Dhaliwal in their ardas, a formal Sikh prayer that asks God for strength.
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The attacks, largely targeting Southern congregations, were both retaliation for disproportionate Jewish participation in the civil rights movement and pure acts of anti-Semitic hatred.
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Protestants aren't the only Christians who go to church in large numbers, of course - there are thousands of Catholic congregations that are just as big.
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Year on year the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran -- and by extension Sunni and Shia Islam -- has increasingly polarized the devotions of their congregations.
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But the church had never hired someone to oversee its efforts, and work done at the top was not necessarily trickling down into individual congregations.
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In recent years, I've hit some 33 states, mostly to visit Muslim communities and congregations — from West Virginia to Alaska, eastern Washington to central Florida.
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To avoid drawing unwanted attention from officials (and getting too cramped) they try not to let their congregations grow larger than a few hundred members.
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Never mind the fact that Catholic priests and nuns counsel and provide spiritual guidance to families every day in local congregations all over the world.
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Since November, the Fredericksburg Islamic Center has hosted a handful of interfaith potlucks and events to introduce residents and other local congregations to the mosque.
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Today, the singles community in the DC metro area comprises its own "stake," the Mormon term for a group of congregations, similar to a diocese.
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When members of the evicted congregations prayed in the street in protest, several of them were charged with "threatening stability and the rule of law".
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Since then, the lot has been occasional home to large congregations of empty dumpsters, rows of semitrailers, and heaps of trucked-in, grime-covered snow.
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I talked to Sammy Nunez, the executive director of Fathers and Families of San Joaquin, and to Pastor Curtis Smith of People and Congregations Together.
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Diyarbakir is a polyglot city that is home to small Christian congregations of Assyrians, Chaldeans and Turkish converts, as well as to Armenians and Kurds.
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Allen Fagin is the CEO of the Orthodox Union (OU), the umbrella organization for American Orthodox Jewry with over 400 congregations in its synagogue network.
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As a result, there is no single tactic that will ensure the vitality of religious congregations in the US. But the Mormon experience is instructive.
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We put that question to the Archdiocese of New York, which oversees St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan and nearly 300 other congregations around the city.
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The bishops recognized how important women were in the church in the Amazon, where they often lead services and act as anchors for Indigenous congregations.
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"We really want to concentrate on this corridor to make it one of services," Malcolm A. Punter, president and chief executive of Harlem Congregations, said.
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Rabbis for the three congregations that met at the Tree of Life have been grappling with how to help families navigate public and private mourning.
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