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| | Religioscope > Archives > Total number of Lutherans worldwide climbs to nearly 66 million (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26) |
 | | The highest regional growth (9.3 percent) was recorded among churches in Africa, where an additional 1,115,141 Lutherans were registered, pushing the number of Lutherans on the continent up from 11,953,068 in 2001 to 13,068,209 by the end of 2003. |
 | | The Evangelical Church in Württemberg had 2,346,879, a decline of 103,121, while the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia had 479,298 members, a decrease of 35,282. |
 | | Membership in the LWF-member church, the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Brazil, rose by 1,085 to reach 715,085 while that in the non-LWF church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil, increased by 2,620 to the current 222,508. |
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