In the United States and Canada, membership numbers have gone up for the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Assemblies of God, among others, according to the 2010 edition of a yearbook published by the National Council of Churches.
The 78th annual edition of the "Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches" also reported a continuing decline in membership of nearly all mainline Protestant denominations including the Southern Baptist Convention, which reported a loss of members for the second year in a row. With more than 16 million members, it is still the nation's second largest denomination.
The Catholic Church -- the country's largest denomination with more than 68 million members -- reported a slight membership decline in the 2009 yearbook, but it rebounded this year with a 1.49 percent growth.
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