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• Americans are turning away from church as population of Christians decline, Pew study claims

• At the church he loved in life, those who loved congressman Elijah Cummings will say goodbye in death

  For nearly 40 years, the late Democratic congressman from Maryland, Elijah E. Cummings, worshiped at the New Psalmist Baptist Church in Baltimore. And his longtime pastor, Bishop Walter Thomas, says he could always count on him “being in church” as long as he wasn’t working elsewhere.

• China bans African students from worshiping in churches to prevent 'foreign infiltration'

  The Chinese government has banned African international students from worshiping in Christian churches under the pretext of “preventing foreign infiltration through religion,” a persecution watchdog has revealed.