Not that the Calvinist church is the only one caught up in politics.
Harlan Loeb, the region's counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil-rights organisation, reckons that the World Church of the Creator is one of the fastest-growing white supremacy groups in the country.
The separation of church and state is one of the most enlightened aspects of our constitutional principles and has a duel purpose, both of which are extremely important.
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The church says it is "one of poor quality" and is 15% lighter than it should be.
As the founder of the International Church of the Grace of God, Soares is one of the most regular faces on Brazilian TV.
The most recent one is between Christ Church Pentecostal of Nashville and the Tennessee State Board of Equalization.
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"In Russia, there isn't a Serbian Orthodox Church, but the Russian Orthodox Church, in Bulgaria there is Bulgarian one, in Romania a Romanian one, " Metropolitan Mihailo told me.
The report into the Clogher diocese is one of seven relating to the Catholic Church in Ireland that were released on Wednesday.
Under his leadership, the church has become the fastest-growing one in America. (Saddleback is a Southern Baptist evangelical church, by the way.) Weekends bring in an average of 15, 000 worshippers.
Lasseigne is the priest of Mary Immaculate Catholic Church in the Southern California community of Pacoima, where one in every nine homes is in some stage of foreclosure.
The real question is how far is it possible to contain within the one church, these various diversities of view?
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They rightly point out that American conservatism has always been a broad church and the battle is not all one way.
And in 1922 they moved to a new site on Church Road, the one that is familiar to tennis fans around the world today, although it has undergone some major overhauls since.
The two-hour-long, early evening installation ceremony was a significant one for the church, since a pope is pontiff because he is elected bishop of Rome, and not vice versa.
In sports-mad Texas, where Friday-night football is nearly as sacred as Sunday morning church services, one rural school district is taking the once-unthinkable step of shutting down its high-school sports program.
In the church courtyard it is hard to miss "One Leg Thomas" as he calls himself, dispensing blessings to penitent pilgrims.
The church connection in one's faith is critically important.
More than a dozen rooftops have collapsed in the Anchorage area so far from accumulated snow, including one on March 2 at the Abbott Loop Community Church that is still being repaired.
The Catholic Church is never going to view marriage except from the perspective of a sacrament, an unbreakable bond between one man and one woman, open to the God-given gift of children.
Is Poland's conservative Catholic Church the one he wants as a model for the rest of Europe?
During the conclave that led to Pope Benedict's election, there was much speculation that a pope might be chosen from one of the continents where the Catholic Church is growing fastest: Africa and Latin America.
The ancient Omayyad Mosque, which like the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is one of the greatest treasures of Islamic art, is a unique site that was once a church and a mosque at the same time.
One former seminarian, who did not want to be named because he is still active in the church and not authorized to speak publicly, told CNN the vow of chastity was one of the chief reasons he dropped out of the vocation.
She is a member of the Church of God in Christ, one of the fastest growing denominations - black or white - in the country.
One of them is found at the Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
One problem is that church leaders such as the pope are not best placed to make that case.
If the building is sold it could become a library, as one church in Plymouth has, or be converted into housing.
And wonderful, well-intentioned endeavors to build wells or latrines in less-developed communities often have only ephemeral benefit: there is no one to fix them after the college or church group leaves, with little more lasting relationship than a few snapshots and a meaningful story to tell.
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This is the Church of the Immaculate Conception of San Agustin in Manila, one of the oldest churches in the Philippines.
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