They gathered in the Catholic cathedral in Apia, in the nation of Samoa and in Congregational churches in American Samoa.

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Leone is full of churches, including the first on the island, a Congregational church founded by a British missionary in the 1800s.

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New York-based Deborah Berke's New England houses are intentionally minimalist a nod to the region's Puritan beginnings and the early Congregational churches of her youth.

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The other applicants in the case were the Reformed Presbyterian Church, the Congregational Union, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the Association of Baptist Churches, the Fellowship of Independent Methodist Churches and Christian Camping International.

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Local church groups of a few dozen families determine congregational lifestyle rules and there is no single authority that brings together the 2, 056 churches located in 30 U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario.

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