Church congregations

• howard mcsweeney1

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  2 June 2013     15:18231876
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  i hadn't realised so many still went, if we add together all the congregations of mosques, temples and synagogues we may well be classed as a religious country.
  
  
  https://witness.guardian.co.uk/assignment/519f90a9e4b0e392888615d8?INTCMP=mic_1836
• Guest 710

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  2 June 2013     15:52231878
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  And there are...
  
  http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/sanderson_jones_and_pippa_evans_sunday_assembly_moving_to_east_end_boxing_hall_1_2216256
  
  "Upper Clapton resident and Sunday Assembly Pastor Sanderson Jones, claimed his Godless congregation had been evicted from St Paul's Church deconsecrated Nave in Balls Pond Road in Islington last month....
  ...The Sunday Assembly garnered worldwide attention since comedians Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans launched it in January to celebrate the wonder of life.
  
  With a tag line "live better, help often, wonder more", tracks like Bill Withers' Lean On Me have replaced hymns, and more than 200 non-believers worldwide have contacted its founders asking how to set up their own branch."
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 710

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  3 June 2013     14:09232001
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  Atheists challenge churches' free parking permits
  
  "Many churches give out holy communion wine and wafers to the faithful. In Woking, Surrey, congregations can also queue up to have their free parking permits validated. But this privilege of churchgoing, however, is about to be challenged...
  ...The issue has become increasingly contentious as more councils scrap free evening and Sunday parking in pursuit of additional streams of income. The charges were initially denounced as a "tax on worshippers", so a number of local authorities - including Wyre council in Lancashire and Canterbury city council - responded by setting up "worship parking permit" schemes..."
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/02/atheists-churches-free-parking
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.