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The Lutheran Church in North America on Abortion and Euthanasia According to 1994 statistics available from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (Nafzger, 1994), more than 33 percent of the world's population consider themselves "Christian" and the third largest group of these Christians identify themselves with the Lutheran church, numbering nearly 59 million. In North American, there are 8.7 million Lutherans belonging to 21 different Lutheran bodies, of which the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) is the largest with 5.2 million members and the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) is the second largest with more than 2.6 million baptized members. The ELCA is considered "moderate" in its beliefs and doctrine, while the LCMS remains a conservative body in its doctrine and interpretation of the Bible. It is from these two largest North American Lutheran bodies that Lutheran statements about social issues regarding l
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