Sentence examples for dwindling congregations from inspiring English sources

Some dwindling congregations have had to sell their church buildings.

With dwindling congregations in Japan, many churches struggle to survive.

Within the Church of England, Bishop Welby faces dwindling congregations and the same divisions between conservatives and liberals as Anglicans elsewhere.

Nothing in the challenges facing Anglicanism — from dwindling congregations to the big issues of relating to the place of women and gays in the church — comes anywhere close to exciting the same passions.

An article on Sunday about dwindling congregations in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark misstated Jersey City's population in 1960, when descendants of European immigrants began leaving the city.

At first sight, the findings provide yet more evidence of the ongoing decline of Britain's religious life, another strand of the familiar, gloomy tale in which dwindling congregations are increasingly struggling to find the funds to maintain their sacred places.

And on Sunday, members of his dwindling congregation heard news they had been bracing for.

He has been pastor of the Marb-Collegiate Church since 1932, and a dwindling congregation.

It received a Torah from a temple seven hours away in El Dorado, Ark., that closed because of a dwindling congregation.

When a vicar lamented his dwindling congregation, for example, Cudlipp helpfully suggested a special service to bless the worshippers' pets.

Mr. Rose said his lease had been a boon to the dwindling congregation at Third Church, which discourages liquor consumption among its members.