Researchers estimated Friday that the report, titled "Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000," does not include some 8 million black American Christians
The evangelical Southern Baptist Convention grew by only 4.9% during the last decade, but remained the nation's largest Protestant group, with nearly 20 million members
By directing the prayer to 'Our Father in Heaven ... in the name of Jesus Christ,' the invocation conveyed the message that the Burbank City Council is a Christian body, and from this it could be inferred that the council was advancing a religious belief