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Asked whether any discussion had taken place in the denomination about the need for a statement on stem cell ethics, James M. Childs Jr., a professor of theology and ethics at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, said, "No concerted cry has come to my ears, at least".

Shiites, who constitute Islam's second-largest denomination (about 10-15 percent of the world Muslim population), consider Hussein to be the one true heir of Muhammad's legacy.

In the Greek Census of 1907, 4,675 people from the Ionian Islands stated Catholicism as their denomination, about 1.8% of the total population (254,494), while 2,541 (1%) Ionians stated Italian as their mother tongue, making it the second language by number of speakers.

Moreover, the continuing economic crisis in Europe has diminished the popularity of the euro even though it has the advantage of coming in 500-euro denominations, about $645 at current exchange rates, making it more compact and convenient for large cash transactions.

Most of the rest of the population adhere to one of the various Protestant denominations (about 48% of Northern Ireland).

The United Methodist Church -- the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination, with about 8.3 million members -- has remained so torn over homosexuality that it has argued over its stance at every quadrennial meeting for the last 32 years.

For months leading up to last week's event, people in the denomination talked about how any big move toward accepting gay marriage would cause a split in the denomination and escalate the decline in membership.

This spring the controversy grew acute when it was revealed that Paige Patterson, the president of an SBC seminary and a major figure in the denomination, lied about how he handled a student's rape allegation and had a history of counseling women in domestic abuse situations to stay with their husbands.

But such concerns ultimately say more about the insecurities of the establishment denominations than about Mormonism itself.

In that period, the Episcopal Church, like most mainline Protestant denominations, lost about 10 percent of its members.

We are one of the few denominations honest about our creolization.