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		<title>Religious Americans: My faith isn&#8217;t the only way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America remains a deeply religious nation, but a new survey finds most Americans don't believe their tradition is the only way to eternal life — even if the denomination's teachings say otherwise.]]></description>
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		<title>More in U.S. jump to new faiths, poll finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans are switching religious affiliation in ever-greater numbers or abandoning ties to organized denominations altogether, and Protestants are on the cusp of becoming a minority, according to a survey released Monday. <span style="color: red;font-family:tahoma;font-weight:normal;font-size:x-small;">[video]</span>]]></description>
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		<title>Largest U.S. churches losing members</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the United States' 25 largest church bodies either lost members or experienced no growth in the past year, according to a 2008 yearbook produced by the National Council of Churches.]]></description>
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		<title>Over half of Britons claim no religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 23-page report published this evening, a UN rapporteur claims the 2001 Census findings that nearly 72 per cent of the population is Christian can no longer be regarded as accurate. The report claims that two-thirds of British people now do not admit to any religious adherence.]]></description>
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		<title>Religion Joins Custody Cases, to Unease of Judges</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judges do not want to take on custody disputes rooted in religion. Lawyer Gaetano Ferro: "How will a judge say in any rational fashion that Islam is better than Buddhism, Catholicism better than Judaism, or Methodism better than Pentecostalism?"]]></description>
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		<title>More Protestants turn to Ash Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protestant churches in recent years have increasingly turned to the rite to increase spirituality and devotional preparation for Easter Sunday among their members.]]></description>
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		<title>Older generations mourn as young Hispanics turn away from the Catholic Church.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly one-fifth of all Latinos in America have converted from one religion to another or to secularism. Half of Hispanic evangelicals are converts, with more than 43 percent of them tracing their roots to the Catholic Church.]]></description>
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		<title>Anglicans: England is not a Catholic nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A spokesman for the Catholic Church said that the figures for Mass attendance sounded "about right", although he stressed that there were no precise statistics. But a representative of the Church of England said that Christian Research had seriously underestimated its churchgoing numbers.]]></description>
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		<title>Britain has become a Catholic country</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roman Catholics have overtaken Anglicans as the country's dominant religious group. More people attend Mass every Sunday than worship with the Church of England.]]></description>
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		<title>Bible bashing dying out in Kansas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visible in Kansas there is a revolution in American Christendom, a change of heart that could see American Protestant churches looking increasingly like their European equivalents.]]></description>
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