{"id":54823,"date":"2025-11-12T05:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=54823"},"modified":"2025-11-12T05:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:56:38","slug":"facts-statistics-roman-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/facts-statistics-roman-catholic-church\/","title":{"rendered":"\u4e8b\u5b9f\u3068\u7d71\u8a08\uff1a\u30ed\u30fc\u30de\u30fb\u30ab\u30c8\u30ea\u30c3\u30af\u6559\u4f1a\u306b\u95a2\u3059\u308b\u7d71\u8a08"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>The State of Our Church: A Heartfelt Look at the Facts and Figures Shaping Our Faith To love the Church is to love our spiritual home, the family of faith into which we were reborn through Baptism. It is more than an institution; it is the Body of Christ, alive and at work in the world. The numbers and statistics that describe her life are not cold, hard facts. They are the heartbeats of our brothers and sisters in Christ\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? 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They are the heartbeats of our brothers and sisters in Christ\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[541],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-54823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facts-stats"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54753,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/facts-statistics-paul-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":54823,"position":0},"title":"Facts &#038; Statistics about paul in the bible","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"3\u6708 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A Disciple&#39;s Guide to the Apostle Paul: Astonishing Facts &amp; Statistics About His Life and Legacy The story of the Apostle Paul is one of the most breathtaking and hope-filled narratives in all of Scripture. 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