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SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of a handful of churches seeing a rise in membership.
The National Council of Churches says over the past year only five of the nation's 25 largest churches grew in membership. Of those, the Jehovah's Witnesses saw a 2 percent increase. The LDS Church saw a 1.7 percent increase and the Catholic Church grew by 1.5 percent.
Others that grew were the Assemblies of God at 1.27 percent and Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.), up 1.76 percent.
The report says eight other large churches saw a decrease. But it says overall in the U.S., the number of people going to church went up by about half of a percent.
Find details from the National Council of Churches' Yearbook, here.
