{"id":12277,"date":"2009-04-14T15:29:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T15:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/deseret_news_mormons_growth_continues\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T15:29:57","slug":"deseret_news_mormons_growth_continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12277","title":{"rendered":"Deseret News: Mormons Growth Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LDS Church remains one of the nation&#8217;s top four churches in membership size and growth rate, despite 2008 statistics that didn&#8217;t reach &#8217;07 numbers but mirrored the past decade&#8217;s annual averages.<\/p>\n<p>At its recent April general conference, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reported a worldwide membership of 13,508,509 through Dec. 31, 2008 \u201d\u201d an increase of 314,510, or 2.38 percent, over the end-of-&#8217;07 total of 13,193,999.<\/p>\n<p>The year before, the church recorded an increase of 325,393, or 2.53 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 10 years, the LDS Church has averaged an annual membership increase of 310,407, with a high of 348,536 from 1998 to 1999 and a low of 263,716 from 2002 to 2003.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/print\/705297296\/LDS-one-of-nations-largest-fastest-growing-churches.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LDS Church remains one of the nation&#8217;s top four churches in membership size and growth rate, despite 2008 statistics that didn&#8217;t reach &#8217;07 numbers but mirrored the past decade&#8217;s annual averages. At its recent April general conference, The Church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12277\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,428,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-mormons","category-other-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}