James Manship, co-chairman of Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut, a coalition of religious groups.
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He led the congregations at St Augustine's Church in Locking and St Mary's Church in Hutton.
As U.S. Catholic congregations shrink and churches close, deaccessioned relics are finding their way onto Ebay.
We see that in the evangelical leaders who are rallying their congregations to protect our planet.
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Recognising that consensus will be elusive, the ELCA's changes allow flexibility for congregations that disapprove.
The moral is not that congregations are not interested in getting federal dollars for social work.
Indeed, even faced with declining congregations in terms of legacy, the Church does remain a power here.
However, the others were set up by religious congregations such as the Christian Brothers and the Dominicans.
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Rabbi Spero has led congregations in Ohio and New York and is president of Caucus for America.
Indiana hired consultants to go out and look for congregations and help them fill in the forms.
The first is to merge one parish with another parish and combine their buildings, congregations and finances.
Some churches even declared "no-fry" zones for their congregations, where only healthy food and nothing fried was allowed.
Later in the broadcast, we will visit with the leader of one of the country's largest Muslim congregations.
All the cardinals, including those older than 80, are entitled to take part in the closed-door general congregations.
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It said grants were vital with the cost of expensive heritage restoration projects often falling on small congregations.
Some congregations, says Rabbi Medwin, are installing webcams, dubbed "Torahcams, " in the sanctuary.
The leaders expressed their concerns over the impact the broken immigration system is having on families throughout their congregations.
Cardinals -- regardless of age -- have been meeting in daily sessions for the last week called General Congregations.
There, he urged them to stay close to their congregations and their concerns.
Benedict also announced an apostolic visitation of certain Irish dioceses, seminaries, and congregations.
Mississippi tried a similar programme at state level, and had to scrap it because so few congregations got involved.
Survivors and representative groups, and the religious congregations, co-operated with the departmental committee.
Evangelicalism wanted to open its doors to all believers and it often lacked roots in the traditions of particular congregations.
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That legacy remains in congregations dotted throughout the South, many of which are too small to afford a full-time rabbi.
Around the U.S., parishes are in flux, and some congregations have shrunk so much they can't keep up their churches.
Some of the discussions happen over coffee, as one Vatican spokesman revealed Monday, the first day of the general congregations.
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Thomas Rosica suggested that the details of what was discussed in the general congregations were not meant to be publicized.
What they don't understand is that he was a community organizer on the south side of Chicago working with congregations.
Moreover, churches, mosques and so on (henceforth congregations) get some federal money already, from the welfare reform bill of 1996.
Unless you as a reporter know of specific pastors telling their congregations not to vote, it's wrong to make the assumption.
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