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United States: new statistics for American Churches: 2002 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches – Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints now 5th largest in the United States

By NCC, 23 February 2002

For the first time, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) is reported within the five largest churches in the United States, according to the National Council of Churches’ 2002 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches,off press this week. NCC News – 13 February 2002 – “This ranking represents a very brisk increase in […]

The 2002 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches (416 pages, paperback) is published by Abingdon Press, Nashville, Tenn.
Source: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
Web: www.ncccusa.org

Russia: varied State response to Orthodox-Catholic rift

By Geraldine Fagan, 22 February 2002

Over the past ten days different representatives of the Russian state have adopted varied positions in response to the Catholic Church’s decision to upgrade its four existing ecclesiastical structures in Russia into dioceses. Keston News Service – 22 February 2002 – On 12 February the Press and Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued […]

Source: Keston Institute <http://www.keston.org>

Orthodox Churches: schism in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR)

By Jean-François Mayer, 26 January 2002

A schism has developed in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), one of the larger exile Russian Orthodox churches, over leadership issues and the prospect of rapprochement with the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). Following the retirement of Metropotitan Vitaly Ustinov (b. 1910), who had been the Primate of the ROCOR since 1986, the […]

Current expressions of the New Age

By Philip Johnson, 20 January 2002

1. The term “New Age” has largely fallen out of favour in most circles. The preferred expressions include “new spirituality”, “do-it-yourself spirituality”, “self-spirituality” – or as lots of bookstores now designate it “mind-body-spirit”. 2. New Age has so saturated mainstream culture it has ceased to be a fringe phenomenon – this parallels the civil rights […]

United States: new statistics for American Churches: 2002 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches – Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints now 5th largest in the United States

Russia: varied State response to Orthodox-Catholic rift

Orthodox Churches: schism in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR)

Current expressions of the New Age

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