Members of the church, he adds, are not required to be believers.

他还说，想成为教堂的成员，并不一定非得是信徒。

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These people around us — our families, our church, our community of believers — are profound mysteries.

在我们身边的这些人，不管是家人，教堂的人，还是信教徒社区的人都是一种难以理解的迷。

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The Church estimates that hundreds of thousands of believers take part in the ceremony across the country each year。

据教会估计，俄罗斯全国每年有数万名教徒在主显日参加这项活动。

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The BBC's David Willey says that Polish Catholicism has clearly become more diluted under democratic government and a free market economy, and official church statistics reveal that only 10% of Polish believers fully identify with church teaching.

BBC: Pope pleads for peace and mercy

In a letter to Kirill, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Mr Yerofeev apologised for inadvertently hurting the feeling of believers, but blasted the church for siding with a group of anti-Semitic, militant radicals.

ECONOMIST: Church and state in Russia

Andrew Greeley sought to explain the Catholic religion to believers and to analyze the Catholic Church for scholars, while doing battle with the church's leaders.

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