Emerging from its role as primarily an immigrant church, the church has become more outward focused in recent years.

Indeed, they were mentioned quite positively in the context of the origins of the immigrant churches on American soil.

Providing a safe place for immigrant churches to learn about Canada and to put down roots.

We were an immigrant church 200 years ago.

"It was a classic immigrant church, and was the largest church in the city at the time."

The immigrant church, in fact, began to go out of its way to assert its Americanness and ultra-loyalty.

An explosion of African immigrant churches in the past 15 years has helped reshape religious worship in the city.

Fundamentalist and immigrant churches are often holding their own or growing.

Clichéd though it may seem, what seems evident at the end of a Mass in an immigrant church is the sheer power of the experience.

This has been a rarity in any immigrant church throughout all of history.