Sentences with phrase «record number of churches»
And World Relief had a record number of churches volunteer to help refugees resettle in America last year, while a solidarity pledge by We Welcome Refugees surpassed its original goal of 10,000 signatures, and was poised to break 20,000 on Friday.
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It also employs a legal staff, oversees Baptist Press, and maintains information on Southern Baptist churches: location, number of members, yearly baptism records, etc..
The Bible has absolutely no references to violence towards non-believers at all and the Catholic church doesn't have a tarnished history of slaughtered indigenous cultures and different religious groups in record numbers...
Who else the committee consulted is not a matter of public record, but reliable sources report that the process involved a number of parties closely associated with homosexual advocacy and critical of the Church's teaching.
One source is the «roll data» kept by religious bodies themselves, which vary in quality from the clearly defined, meticulously updated and publicly available membership records of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to the much less reliable numbers put forth by many historically African - American denominations.
Across the board, millennials are opting out of church in record numbers.
Unfortunately, the sheer number of electronic church broadcasts overwhelmed the other two categories in the sample: out of 101 program titles recorded for the content analysis, only eight were local - church programs and seven were mainline nationally syndicated or network programs.
They dropped out of the churches in record numbers in the «60s and «70s but perhaps one - third or more — mainly the older baby - boomers — are returning.
A record number of people went to a Christmas service at a Church of England cathedral last year.
Luke records a number of events in Acts that underscore the inclusiveness of the early church and the fact that no handicap, physical or otherwise, would exclude a person from full fellowship in the Christian faith.
Neither of these examples is farfetched — reports of officers recording the license plate numbers of cars parked at mosques are fairly widespread, and All Souls church in Pasadena was investigated by the IRS and threatened with revocation of its tax - exempt status based on an anti-war sermon delivered in 2004.
«As Morner points out, Church,, White, and Hunter applied a number of regional «corrections» to the basic tide gauge record and calculated averages of a large region to arrive at their conclusion that sea level was rising in the Maldives.