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"The Church is Christians gathering to praise and be with God."
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"text": "The church across the street has a service at 10 am."
},
{
"text": "Christian churches and Buddhist temples exist alongside each other."
},
{
"text": "Though she prayed and attended church, as she got older she often wondered why God didn't do anything."
}
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"text": "They asked for the help of the Catholic Church."
},
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"text": "At the time I moved from the Baptist Church to the Pentecostal Church I was about sixteen years old."
},
{
"text": "Jesus Christ established a church in which men and women were equal."
},
{
"text": "This country was founded on the idea of separation of church and state."
},
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"text": "People tend to leave because they don't accept certain church teachings."
}
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"text": "The Church (referring to the dominant religious organization of a particular time or place)."
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"text": "I'll be there after church."
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"text": "The church across the street has a service at 10 am."
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"text": "At the time I moved from the Baptist Church to the Pentecostal Church I was about sixteen years old."
},
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"text": "Jesus Christ established a church in which men and women were equal."
},
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"text": "This country was founded on the idea of separation of church and state."
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"text": "I'll be there after church."
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