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Evangelical Lutheran Membership Climbs

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<i> From Times Wire Services</i>

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America reports its first membership gain in nearly a decade.

The Lutheran body said its overall membership rose in 1990 to 5,240,739, an increase of 1,959. The denomination, created in a 1988 merger, said the last gains by predecessor bodies occurred in the early 1980s. Most mainline Protestant denominations have been declining in membership for 25 years.

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