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Attention All Members of NSCS National Society of Collegiate Scholars First General Meeting of the Semester When: September 19, 2002 Where: Rudder 301 Time: 6:00 pm For more information please visit http://stuact.tamu.edu/stuorg/nscs FSISATLRN of Bryan/College Station I 97 North Earl Rudder Freeway "A Different Kind Of Car Company” “A Different Kind Of Service Dept” COME IN AND LET US GIVE YOUR SATURN THE CARE IT DESERVES • Free Cookies • Free Coffee • Free Internet Access • Free Study Tables • Shuttle Service • Free CarWash Oil and Filter Change *21.95 BRIARCREST □ with this ad Call 846-8444 for appointment All ^arnrrn; A mnsf GM vehicles welcome UNIVERSITY £ Wednesday, September 18, 2002 he BAIT: Sign me up ••/V Ten-year-old Brazos Christian School student Laura Watson signs a scroll in front of a copy of the U.S. Constitution in the rotunda of the George Bush Presidential Library and RANI Museum Tuesday Constitution Day. dren attended tfv Bush Library. tRU • TMf W" morning. Tuesda By Tj THE knew it indtd. loud pop e leg that won ch|lefu knew roig. It wasn’t suj ay, not while tho Texas A< amij Not dur tepded to sho> ay. Not be for olllgiate eligih “] remember asped. Achil number mucl |a blood-cut lornble. Everytl ‘^iverything" ruciate ligamel igament and bo icr^eft knee. The injury ha| ho had a 29-im he injury, went mer player Jenna “1 remember U.S. religions survey fin growth among evangelic^ Almost 600 schoo some of the othel ■ all-day activities r was going to get she said. “I did keep a hurt playi ahead and make gram even thou; been my sophon ^o mans things .head, so many in That day. Jul (AP)—The Mormon church and evangelical faiths grew' during the past decade while more liberal Protestant denom inations shrank, according to a new census of U.S. religions conducted by a Roman Catholic research group. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints grew at the fastest rate, with the Pentecostal denomination Assemblies of God following closely behind, the 2000 Religious Congregations & Membership study found. The Roman Catholic Church also posted strong growth while its population shifted. More Catholics now live in the West than the traditionally Catholic Midwest, and the Catholic pop ulation in the South grew faster than it did in the Northeast. “That has a lot to do with the growth of the Hispanic popula tion in the United States,” said researcher Clifford Grammich, who collected Catholic figures for the study. “How well the church has been holding onto Hispanic Catholics, a study like this can’t determine.” The survey is conducted once a decade and was released Tuesday. The latest version includes Muslims for the first time, find ing 1.6 million in the United States. The count was lower by millions than some other surveys, but researchers said the figure was only a tally of those active in mosques, not the total American Muslim population. Estimates of all Muslims vary dramatically from 2 million to 6 million. The study was conducted by the Glenmary Research Center in Nashville. Term., a Catholic research and social service organ ization that coordinates the study with analysts from several faiths. It s one of just a few religious surveys across denominations. The 149 participating faiths sent membership estimates to Glenmary, which adjusted the hgures to make them compara ble. 1 he U.S. Census Bureau does not collect information on religion. The numbers for each denomination may not be exact, but are close enough to help uncover important trends, said the Rev. Dale Jones, a Church of the Nazarene minister who oversaw the survey. Jones said one of the most troubling trends was that, in most areas, religious groups 1 ailed to increase the percentage of members compared with the total population. This was espe cially pronounced in the West, where denominations claim the smallest percentage of members. People there “consider themselves religious, but some will say you don’t need to belong to a church to be reli gious,” Jones said. Keeping the m The Catholic churchfc**] largest in the United! Denominations within It* Protestant churches! have 66 million adhen Southern Baptists beinc largest group. Top 15 faiths In United SU* by number of adherents Faith 1 Catholic 2 Southern Baptist . Convention m 1 3 United Methodist '03 A 14’' 4 Jewish 5. Evangelical Lutheran . Church in Amenca s ’ - ] 6 The Church of Jesus-Chrtst of Latter-day Saints 4 “ 1141.3 7 Presbytenan 8. Assemblies of God 2.56 * 9 Lutheran Mlssoun Synod 10 Episcopal 11 American Baptist We'd 12. United Church of Christ AGGIES WITH 1,698.1 j or unnsi .Wsl 13. Churches of Christ 1 14 Muslim (estimate) ' 5 i 15. Christian Churches^Aj SOURCE: Glenmary ResearchCe* J The study found ^ Angeles metropolitan are | the most diverse ur ^ an ffl ,| with 106 different de^J tions reporting , Illinois was the most state with 120 different! , — — — to & k ft v : cr is-i? o,,% % %>„ ' % ^ Abt-LT, <JRApCA7U, 1 hursday, September 26 5:30 pm, Koldus 110 , . Welcome, Snack provided »»ore inforniation, call 845-1741 or stop by Sbisa East Wing PWlF
