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| | :Quality of church services is good, but there is also something to be said for duration of time spent at church during a week. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 15:25, April 5, 2024 (EDT) | | :Quality of church services is good, but there is also something to be said for duration of time spent at church during a week. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 15:25, April 5, 2024 (EDT) |
| | + | {{Cquote|Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. |
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| | + | Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.|||Isaiah 1:13-14}} |
| | + | The celebration of Easter is held on the first Sunday after the first new moon in spring. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Zelensky didn't kill himself'']]</sup> 15:50, April 5, 2024 (EDT) |
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| | === Church statistics: Catholics and Bishops === | | === Church statistics: Catholics and Bishops === |
| | The number of baptized Catholics has increased globally, rising from 1.376 billion in 2021 to 1.390 billion in 2022, with a relative increase of 1.0%.The rate of change varied from continent to continent. Africa recorded an increase of 3%, with the number of Catholics rising from 265 to 273 million in the same period." https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-04/vatican-central-statistical-office-church-pontifical-yearbook.html [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]<sup>[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]</sup> 13:17, April 4, 2024 (EDT) | | The number of baptized Catholics has increased globally, rising from 1.376 billion in 2021 to 1.390 billion in 2022, with a relative increase of 1.0%.The rate of change varied from continent to continent. Africa recorded an increase of 3%, with the number of Catholics rising from 265 to 273 million in the same period." https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-04/vatican-central-statistical-office-church-pontifical-yearbook.html [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]<sup>[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]</sup> 13:17, April 4, 2024 (EDT) |
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| − | Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.|||Isaiah 1:13-14}}
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| | == It’s not just Ukraine who is conspiring against the US == | | == It’s not just Ukraine who is conspiring against the US == |
| | You can bet our so-called “allies” in Israel and Taiwan are doing the same. Trump must punish them. Severely.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 14:07, April 5, 2024 (EDT) | | You can bet our so-called “allies” in Israel and Taiwan are doing the same. Trump must punish them. Severely.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 14:07, April 5, 2024 (EDT) |