The Salvation Army

Denomination·Founded 1865 CE·The Army works in 134 countries by its own count. It publishes country-by-country figures of officers, soldiers, adherents and corps in its annual Year Book rather than a single global membership headline; totals commonly cited run above a million and a half and are not independently audited. The number of people it serves through its social programmes is far larger and is a different thing entirely.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army International HeadquartersThe recordRoyal Commission Case Study 5 — Find and Connect, Australian Government

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Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × The Salvation Army Discussion

Rites & Ritual

what its people do — and when Part of Practice →
Weekly
The mercy seat — a bench at the front, and you kneel at it in front of everyone. Every Salvation Army hall has one, and the whole meeting bends toward it: the invitation is to come forward, kneel, and be prayed with by an officer or a soldier. It is the Army's only fixed liturgical object, and it stands where the altar would be in any other church. When Weekly — the holiness meeting on Sunday morning and the salvation meeting in the eveningWho Soldiers, adherents and anyone who comes in Go deeper — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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