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With over half the U.S. population belonging to one church or another, the Federal Council of Churches in its 1945 Yearbook of American Churches tallied the reports of 256 Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and other religious bodies, found that their membership had reached the alltime high of 72,492,669 — a jump of four million in two years.
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