Religion: Names

>In its annual report last week, the National Conference of Jews & Christians changed its name — to the National Conference of Christians & Jews.

Official reason : the group has more Christian members than Jewish.

> The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America last month admitted the Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church (100,000 members) to its ranks. Last fortnight the Federal Council, which used to describe itself as a "Protestant agency," began looking for something better to call itself than a "U. S. non-Roman Catholic Christian agency."

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