Shrinking population threatens an ancient faith
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BOMBAY -- For centuries, this city has been the citadel where Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest religions, has persevered in the face of overwhelming odds.
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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By Katharine Dale, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 17--The message was clear. Many 20- and 30-somethings across Charlotte feel disconnected from their churches. Even more aren't tapped into a local faith community, but are searching.
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Despite an uptick in the birthrate, the country is still heading for demographic disaster
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EPHRAIM, Utah - For more than a decade, a 9,000-member polygamist sect that believed civilization was about to end was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow.
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MOSCOW, Jul 18 (IPS) - For more than a century, the Church of Jesus Christ  of Latter-Day Saints has been struggling to establish itself in  the former Soviet republics and parts of Eastern Europe.
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Some kibbutzes are on the verge of collapse as they cope with debt and attrition.
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Just 7 percent of the population attend services regularly. But visits to churches are up sharply.
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Scientists have found evidence of a peril that human ancestors encountered in their migrations out of Africa: tuberculosis.
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The steady exodus in recent years has become a hot topic in a land already saddled with one of the most rapidly aging and shrinking populations of any Western nation.
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With a religiously mixed population, aid efforts have meant reaching out across faith barriers.
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Two researchers are following the footsteps of the religious patriarch in the hope that people will rediscover their common roots.
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A long-term decline in church attendance in England in recent years is &quot;pulling out of the nosedive&quot;, mainly due to ethnic minories and in particular black people.
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Muslims and Jews, a tiny slice of the U.S. population, are looking for new ways to get along that could set a worldwide example for two ancient but often alienated faiths, religious leaders and experts say.
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The proportion of the Finnish population who belong to the countrys main religion, the Evangelical-Lutheran Church, has been declining.
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Imagine the long centuries of the Stone Age, when life was, by definition, hard and there was not a tipple to be had. People in the Middle East came to find a pleasing remedy in the marvel
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The wall separating church and economics is being breached as some academics turn to studying the effect of religion on economies.