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Jun 2019
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African and West Indian Christians Are C...

CHRISTIANITY TODAY
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How God is working through the Windrush generation and beyond. The number of churches continues to drop in the UK. As CT reported last month, there are only 39,000 congregations left in the country, a quarter drop from 20 years ago. But despite churches increasingly closing their doors and the number of people attending church falling, this bad news isn’t ac ... Show More
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