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A PowerPoint presentation packed with graphs showing the decline of religious observance in America filled the fellowship hall at Madison’s Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Saturday morning. “I take no joy in showing you any of these graphs,” said Eastern Illinois University political science professor Ryan Burge. “This is me.” For the past 17 years Burge has also been the pastor of an American Baptist Church in central Illinois, but it’s planning on closing this summer. “We had eight people in worship last Sunday,” he said. UPDATE ON THIS STORY APRIL 2nd STORY FROM THE RELIGION NEWS SERVICE: The last service…

NELSON, NZ (ANS) — A group of 10 churches in the Nelson area have joined together under the banner All for One.The churches come from a variety of denominations, ranging from Anglican, Church of Christ and Presbyterian to Pentecostal and independents.John Taylor, pastor of Spring of Life Elim, Nelson, says the group arose from a pastors’ meeting which has been running over the past decade.“Some of us felt God was wanting us to be more specific, more identifiable, one body, as laid out in Ephesians 4-6. We settled on the name late last year, and have been running combined services…