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Religion's rising public role contrasts with slower membership gains
Dr. Robert Van Deusen notes church influence on public policy is growing amid debate over the National Council of Churches. A Gallup-Catholic Digest survey shows 38 percent attend weekly, 30 percent occasionally, and 32 percent never, with new religious construction at a record $1.3 billion projected for 1966.
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George W. Cornell
Robert E. van Deusen
Wash- New York
Ington
Christ Lutheran Council
Rends
Educal Church In America
Board of
National Council of Churches
Council
North Chili
N.Y
Robert McAfee
Brown
Stanford
Frank G. Rhody
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
U.S
Gallup
Catholic Digest
U.S. Department of Commerce
Kenneth G. Phifer
New Orleans