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Religion News Blog's Religion News Roundup, today with an item op apostasy, Nigerian pastor Enoch Adeboye, Scientology's shenanigans, Neo-Nazis and other extremist nuts, Dutch Muslims rejecting Dutch schools, and more. Also: Today in History.

 

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A man who was allegedly the leader of a bizarre, quasi-religious sex cult has described claims that he committed sex offences against children as totally false.

 

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Growing churches continue to grow and declining churches continue to decline, according to the National Council of Ch urches' 2011 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches.

"The direction of membership (growth or decline) remains very stable," writes the Yearbook's editor, the Rev. Dr. Eileen Lindner, in the newest edition released this week. "That is, churches which have been increasing in membership in recent years continue to grow and likewise, those churches which have been declining in recent years continue to decline."

 

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