They've started 133 new churches in that time, a nearly 70 percent increase that brings their regional total to 325.
Religious belief here is an extremely powerful force and new churches seem to be able to fill up as soon as they're built.
Almost two-thirds of this reduction happened in the 1980s and 1990s, when Catholics were apparently drawn away to new Pentecostal churches.
In a new report, Churches Together Around Ludlow said young people and the elderly were most affected by council cuts and poor job opportunities.
Last year I read a recent interview with the priest of one of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in New York, located downtown and near Wall Street.
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The centre-right government of Viktor Orban, which would love a pre-electoral seal of conservative approval from them, has introduced new religious holidays and promised new state money for churches.
It was a fitting finale to the journey: Turkey's eastern border, perhaps to be Europe's new eastern frontier, ancient churches and mosques rising like tombstones out of the long wild grass.
The council said it was working with local churches to find a new home for the operation.
Jackson delivered a keynote address at the National Council of Churches Centennial Gathering in New Orleans.
For some churches the share of new adherents was startlingly high.
There is always something new and surprising in many African churches on Sunday, reflecting the unpredictable innovation and openness of African religious beliefs and practices to the dynamist of the Holy Spirit.
The Trussell Trust works with churches and community groups to open new food banks and is aiming to have at least one in every town.
Slower-growing New England had the largest proportion of liberal churches.
Thousands of Methodists, from all over the country were congregating to swear in their new President, and discuss matters affecting local churches as well as national and international topics.
Although gaining new members would be an obvious benefit for the churches, those involved say it is not the primary goal.
Redemption Fellowship of Fall River is one of dozens of churches the Southern Baptist Convention has planted around New England in the last decade with a multi-million dollar push into territory skeptical of the South and increasingly indifferent to religion.
He referred to a new advisory stakeholder forum that would provide a role for the churches.
After the appeals court sided with the city again in 2011, churches were given until Feb. 12 to find new homes.
Mrs Miller, who is, as I write, opening the debate on the Bill, has said that both churches would be able to opt in to the new law, but in different ways.
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His latest project, proposed by a local arts society, is a brand new museum near Varnamo, a small town in southern Sweden with 15 churches and no cinema.
Dr Williams, who was head of the Church in Wales before his new appointment, said experience there showed barriers could be broken down if churches and local Muslim communities worked together.
Far from being a new attitude, the concept of replacing government initiatives on poverty in favour of churches and charities is a well-tested model.
The government says churches would be allowed to 'opt-in' to the new rules and no religious groups would be forced to carry out same-sex ceremonies.
New government legislation is also thought to have helped deter the thieves, but churches - particularly in rural areas - can be targeted because of their isolated locations.
In a statement Monday, Scouts spokesman Deron Smith said that, under the new policy, groups that oversee the organization's youth programs, including churches and schools, would be empowered to make their own choices.
With the advent of Christianity, churches adopted some elements of cult and folk tradition to coerce pagans into the new religion.
Earlier Chloe Clemmons, Scottish Churches Parliamentary Officer, told the committee there had been a lack of consultation on a new anti-sectarian law.
But others say the new permits required for many renovations in a historic district would place an undue burden on homeowners and churches in the area, especially because many of its residents are elderly or have modest incomes.
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