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Keepin' It Real with Al Sharpton is a daily national talk radio program by New York City area civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton. While his show is based at New York City's WWRL , Keepin It Real with Al Sharpton has also been broadcast on Sirius XM Satellite Radio since August 13, 2007.
Sharpton was licensed and ordained a Pentecostal minister by Bishop F. D. Washington at the age of nine [144] or ten. [145] After Bishop Washington's death in the late 1980s, Sharpton became a Baptist. He was re-baptized as a member of the Bethany Baptist Church in 1994 by the Reverend William Augustus Jones [32] and became a Baptist minister ...
In 2001, there were 1,073 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Washington, D.C. It has since grown to 3,168 members in 4 congregations. Official church membership as a percentage of general population was 0.38% in 2014.
Washington saw many members move to the state after the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam and during World War II to work in defense industries. [5] The first branch in Washington was created at Tacoma near the end of 1899, with its first stake being created at Seattle in 1938. [5] Washington's first temple was built in Bellevue in 1980.
The official church membership as a percentage of general population was 0.72% in 2014. [3] According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, roughly 1% of Marylanders self-identify themselves most closely with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [4] The LDS Church is the 8th largest denomination in Maryland. [5]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Washington, D.C. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Washington .
In 2009, D.A.R.E. adopted the "keepin' it REAL" curriculum. [42] [43] Rather than solely focusing on the perils of alcohol and other drugs, keepin' it REAL developed a 10-lesson curriculum that included aspects of European American, Mexican American, and African American culture integrated with culturally based narration and performance. [44]
The Washington D.C. Temple (originally known as the Washington Temple, until 1999), is the 16th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Located in Kensington, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C., and near the Capital Beltway, it was the first temple built by the church east of the Mississippi River since the original Nauvoo Temple was completed in 1846.