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the parishioners of First Baptist Church
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An hour later, for its first concert since the fires, parishioners sat in awe as Grammy Award winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers weaved her bow across her violin, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach echoing through the church.
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Camelia Heins, Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
During the postwar years, though, tens of thousands of white parishioners chose to move to new enclaves in the city and the suburbs as, owing to the Great Migration, the Black population, long sequestered on the South Side, grew and expanded into other neighborhoods.
—Paul Elie, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Trinity's parishioners followed her lead, buying $20,000 worth of food from Latino and Somali-owned businesses along Lake Street in Minneapolis during the last two weeks.
—Dee Depass Star Tribune, Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2025
Back in Nigeria, he was threatened, and some 20 of his parishioners killed.
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 28 Dec. 2025
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Camelia Heins, Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
During the postwar years, though, tens of thousands of white parishioners chose to move to new enclaves in the city and the suburbs as, owing to the Great Migration, the Black population, long sequestered on the South Side, grew and expanded into other neighborhoods.
—Paul Elie, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Trinity's parishioners followed her lead, buying $20,000 worth of food from Latino and Somali-owned businesses along Lake Street in Minneapolis during the last two weeks.
—Dee Depass Star Tribune, Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2025
Back in Nigeria, he was threatened, and some 20 of his parishioners killed.
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 28 Dec. 2025
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“Parishioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parishioner. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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