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Faith in action.


In the U.S. 3,000 faith-based In the United States of America, the term faith-based is used to describe organizations that are religious in nature and distinguish those organizations from government, public or private secular organizations.  progressive organizations support an array of causes.
Number of groups by religious affiliation

Interfaith                  631
Catholic                    554
Protestant                  499
Jewish                      263
Black Church                167

Number of groups working on a particular cause

Peace                     1,371
Poverty                   1,541
Race Issues                 941
Education                   600
Health/AIDS                 521

Source: Online database of Faith in Public Life,
faithinpubliclife.org/map/index.html
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Title Annotation:signs of the times
Publication:U.S. Catholic
Date:Sep 1, 2007
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