Religious activities generally need some infrastructure to be conducted. For this reason, there generally exist religion-supporting organizations, which are some form of organization that manage:
- the upkeep of places of worship, e.g. mosques, prayer rooms, other similar edifices or meeting places.
- the payment of salaries to priests, ministers or religious leaders.
In addition, such organizations usually have other responsibilities, such as: the formation, nomination or appointment of religious leaders, the establishment of a corpus of doctrine, the disciplining of priests or other people with respect to religious law, the determination of qualification for membership, etc.
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