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| The United States of America, Western and Eastern Europe are far apart as religion is concerned. While 86% of all US citizens believe in a Creator God, this only applies to 80% of the population in Eastern and 70% in Western Europe. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now - February 2005 |
| Nearly 75% of US doctors believe miracles can occur, a new survey says. The survey also found that 72% of the 1,100 doctors polled believe that religion provides a reliable guide to life, according to a report in the Jewish Telegraph. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelical Times - February 2005 |
| Nearly 900 people came back to church in the Manchester diocese on Back to Church Sunday according to initial results, and 91% said they would consider coming back again. Assessments from churches confirm that at least 886 people returned to a church because of the scheme. Meanwhile researchers at the University of Wolverhampton asked those who returned: Would you consider coming to this or another church again? 91.3% answered "yes". | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Herald – 8th January 2005 |
| 2004 was a bad year for astrologers according to the Society for Scientific Research of Para-Sciences in Rossdorf, Germany. The society examined 90 predictions about the year 2004; none of them came true."Clairvoyants usually turn out to be failures," Says mathematician Michael Kunkel of the Society. He recalls that astrologer Patricia Bahrani predicted a terror attack on Berlin and Anton Tewes even a nuclear attack on New York. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Herald – 8th January 2005 |
| A senior Anglican bishop has commissioned the Church of England's first official service to recognise - among other types of relationship - gay couples and cohabiting heterosexuals, reports the Sunday Times. John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln, has instructed staff to draw up the liturgy in which those in "non-marriage relationships" are able to step forward in church and give thanks to God for their union. The move is not a "marriage" service, but many are concerned at the move. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Herald – 15th January 2005 |
| A dramatic fall in religious belief over a generation has emerged from a major survey in Britain, with less than half of respondents expressing belief in God compared with more than three-quarters in 1968.The survey found that 44% of respondents expressed a belief in God compared with 77% in 1968. For a minority, however, hell is feared as much as before: 23% believed in it - the same proportion as a generation earlier. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Herald – 15th January 2005 |
| Provisional figures for 2003 showed that adult attendance at church and cathedral worship was one million over a typical week and more than 850,000 on a typical Sunday. This represents a rise of 2% in 2003. 430,000 children and young people attended church over a typical month - a rise of 1%. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Church Of England Newspaper – 14th January 2005 |
| 30% of people who consider themselves to be non-practising Christians cannot name Jesus' nationality, where He was born, or who the first man in the Bible was.Only 72% of people surveyed knew where Jesus was born (85% of church goers). Just 71% knew His nationality (83% of churchgoers) and no-one was able to name the four writers of the Gospels. 85% did know what happened at Easter, however. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Baptist Times – 16th December 2004 |
| The Pope is one of the three most admired living men, according to a major new poll of UK residents. According to the ICM People's Poll, the Pontiff ranked at the top of the poll with Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Universe – 28th November 2004 |
| The Institute for Metascientific Research has announced that one of the best-known atheists in the academic world, Professor Antony Flew of the University of Reading, has accepted the existence of God. In a symposium sponsored by the IMR at New York University earlier this year, Professor Flew stated that developments in modern science had led him to accept the action of an 'intelligent mind' in the creation of the world. In 'Has Science Discovered God?', the recording of the symposium released on 15th December, Flew said his conclusion was influenced by developments in DNA research. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Herald – 1st January 2005 |
| An estimated 2,500 people living in and around the city dump in Quito, Ecuador, attended an annual Christmas party on 4th December organised by Extreme Response, an international relief agency. Of these, 160 people gave their lives to Christ and asked for a personal visit in their homes. This was the eighth annual Christmas party for Quito's forgotten dump dwellers. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Herald – 1st January 2005 |
| Nearly twice as many young people believe in horoscopes as in the Bible, according to a poll. The same survey found that the population in general has more faith in Tarot cards and palm reading than in the Bible, but that seven out of 10 of the over 45's retain a belief in the veracity of the Scriptures. The greater the age, the more this is true, with the 75 plus group emerging as stout defenders of the Scriptures. The satellite television channel Fox network surveyed 3,000 people. It discovered that 62% of people aged 18-24 believed in the power of horoscopes, compared with nearly 38% who believed in the Bible. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Unity – December 2004 |
| At least 336 tribal Christians were 'reconverted' to Hinduism in a ceremony organised by the World Hindu Council in Orissa on October 17. Gauri Prasad Rath, state secretary of the Council, said it was the largest reconversion ceremony they had ever held and insisted the reconversion drives would continue until missionaries stopped evangelising tribal groups in Orissa. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now – December 2004 |
| Far fewer households in the UK now own Bibles than was the case fifty years ago, according to a new poll carried out by ICM Research.In 1954 90% of all adults owned a Bible, a figure now reduced to 65%. Conversely, belief in the paranormal is on the increase, with 42% of people claiming to believe in ghosts, a 10% rise over half a century. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Herald – 27th November 2004 |
| Hormoz Shariat, co-founding pastor of the Iranian Christian Church in San Jose, California, and founder of International Antioch Ministries, which has broadcast Iranian Christian TV since 2002 notes, that ICTV's live, 'prime time' pastoral call-in show has been "the catalyst" for more than 50,000 conversions of Muslims worldwide. "One time we had 30 people listening in on a single phone call and all came to Jesus through our show. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Direction – December 2004 |
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