As a young politician, when I started going to black churches, for the first time I heard people refer to funerals as homegoings.

作为一个年轻的政客，我最初到黑人教堂做礼拜时，第一次听到人们将葬礼称为“归家”。

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Each week they drag young, bloodied men away from the drug traffickers and into their churches, and mediate informal truces between warring factions.

每星期他们把受了重伤的年轻人拉出贩毒队伍，拉进他们的教堂，为交战各派的非正式停战进行调停。

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In New South Wales, the Reverend John Young Wai, originally an Anglican convert from Victoria, established two continuing Chinese Presbyterian churches in Sydney.

在新南威尔士州，牧师约翰年轻人围，原本圣公会转换，由维多利亚，设立了两个会继续中文长老教会在悉尼。

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Soon, other churches heard of the young girl with the beautiful, deep voice.

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Increasingly, those churches are empty of young faces.

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Except at weddings and the christenings that sometimes followed them, there were no young among the congregations of the three churches, and with nostalgia Bartholomew now and again remembered Youth Reach and Youth Action and the Saturday rambles to Kilmashogue and Two Rock.

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