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Letter: Fusty old church is full

Letter: Fusty old church is full

IT APPEARS that the religious leaders looking "to rid the church of a fusty, old-fashioned image" ("Churches join forces to reverse decline in worship", 7 April) did not read the article you printed some weeks ago ("Incense, icons and faith", 19 March) detailing a remarkable increase in the membership of the Orthodox Church in Britain, one of the causes being churchgoers defecting from other denominations as a result of modernisation!

ALUN REGAN

Hove

East Sussex

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