Membership declines among Protestant denominations have become routine in recent decades, but for some, the news has been especially bleak lately.
For the third year in a row, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) lost 5 percent of its members nationwide and more than 100 congregations to other denominations in 2014, according to newly released statistics from the denomination. In and around southwestern Pennsylvania, where Presbyterians are especially concentrated, presbyteries all experienced losses of various levels.
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