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Episcopal Church in the USA (2,311,398), 14th largest U.S. Church<br />

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (5,125,919), 6th largest U.S. Church<br />

Friends United Meeting (50,803)<br />

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1,500,000), 15th largest U.S. Church<br />

Hungarian Reformed Church in America (9,780)<br />

International Council of Community Churches (500,000)<br />

Korean Presbyterian Church in America<br />

Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church<br />

Mar Thoma Church<br />

Moravian Church in America-North and South Province (50,982)<br />

National Baptist Convention of America (3,500,000), 7th largest U.S. Church<br />

National Baptist Convention, USA (8,200,000)<br />

National Missionary Baptist Convention of America (2,500,000), 13th largest U.S.<br />

Church<br />

Orthodox Church in America (1,000,000), 23rd largest U.S. Church<br />

Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA (9,780)<br />

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends<br />

Polish National Catholic Church of America (282,411)<br />

Presbyterian Church, USA (3,485,332), 8th largest U.S. Church<br />

Progressive National Baptist Convention (2,500,000), 11th largest U.S. Church<br />

Reformed Church in America (274,521)<br />

Serbian Orthodox Church of USA and Canada (67,000)<br />

Swedenborgian Church (2,475)<br />

Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch (33,000)<br />

Ukranian Orthodox Church of America (5,000)<br />

United Church of Christ (1,377,320), 19th largest U.S. Church<br />

United Methodist Church (8,340,954), 3rd largest U.S. Church<br />

In the January 1926 issue of the Masonic New Age magazine, members were urged to “cast<br />

his lot with the Church– to help vitalize it, liberalize it, modernize it, and render it aggressive and<br />

efficient– to do less is treason to your country, to your Creator, and to the obligation you have<br />

promised to obey.” Many NCC pastors are Masons, and in the May 22, 1989 edition of Time<br />

magazine, Dr. Richard Mouw of the Fuller Theological Seminary in California, said that NCC<br />

member churches are teaching “magic and the occult and the New Age.”<br />

The National Council of Churches is responsible for the Revised Standard Version of the<br />

Bible. They have concerned themselves with civil liberties, social justice, and the theological<br />

critique of U.S. foreign policy, particularly in respect to China and Indo-China. The have said<br />

that the United States should become a subordinate of the United Nations. They supported the<br />

Supreme Court decision that removed prayer and Bible reading from the nation’s public school<br />

system. In 1960, a Congressional Committee investigation revealed: “Thus far of the leadership<br />

of the National Council of Churches of Christ in America, we have found over 100 persons in<br />

leadership capacity with either Communist-front records or records of service to communist<br />

causes.”<br />

The Foundation for Community Organization, which has its offices in the New York<br />

headquarters of the National Council of Churches, had made grants to the Mozambique<br />

Liberation Front, and the Zimbabwe African National Union. The Church World Service (CWS),

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