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		<title>Counting religious believers is a tricky business</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[God and the demographers
Sometime in the next few months, the United Jewish Communities will release the data from its 2000 census of the American Jewish population–for the second time.
After a flurry of controversy over the phrasing of questions, the use of weighting techniques, the loss of data, and the very definition of who is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facts on Anglicanism and Episcopal Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By The Associated Press, Aug. 7, 2003
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/
Facts on Anglicanism, a major branch of Christianity, and its American branch, the Episcopal Church:
NUMBERS: 77 million adherents in the 38 Anglican and Episcopal churches around the world. The mother Church of England is the largest branch but many of its 26 million baptized members are inactive. America&#8217;s Episcopal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Religious professionals live longer than others</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercury News, Aug. 3, 2002
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/3792659.htm
LONDON - There&#8217;s a lot to be said for the life of a Benedictine monk or a Baptist minister; on average, they live considerably longer than the rest of us.
That&#8217;s the conclusion drawn from three decades of research published in the current edition of the Journal of Religion and Health. It [...]]]></description>
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