   the church of the nazarene is an evangelical christian denomination that emerged from the 19th-century holiness movement in north america. with its members colloquially referred to as nazarenes, it is the largest wesleyan-holiness denomination in the world."pentecostalism", in encyclopedia of religion and society, eds. william h. swatos and peter kivisto (rowman altamira, 1998):358. at the end of september 2013, the church of the nazarene had 2,263,249 members in 29,007 churches in 159 different "world areas" (countries and areas that are a part of a country, but may be known by a different name)."the church of the nazarene uses "world area" to describe countries and areas that are a part of a country, but may be known by a different name. more than 20 of the denomination's 159 world areas fall into this category, such as guam, a u.s. territory on the asia
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