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| A campaign to encourage spontaneous acts of generosity during Lent reached 100,000 people in 172 countries this year: the equivalent of four million acts of kindness, its organisers have estimated. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Church Times – 25th May 2018 |
| Just seven per cent of UK adults are practising Christians, meaning they pray and read the Bible at least weekly and attend church services at least monthly. In England 22 per cent of adults and 27 per cent of youth believe Jesus Christ is a mythical or fictional character, rather than an actual person who existed in human history. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Premier Christianity - June 2018 |
| The birth of Jesus has been ranked among key historical events people in the UK most wish they had experienced first-hand according to a poll by Casumo. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Premier Christianity - March 2018 |
| The technology giant Google has come under attack after its voice-activated personal assistant Google Home was able to answer the questions “Who is Mohammed?” and “Who is Buddha?” but could not answer “Who is Jesus?”. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Premier Christianity - March 2018 |
| Tracey Crouch, the minister for sport and civil society, has told Christian charities they needn’t worry about hiding their faith while carrying out services. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Premier Youth and Children’s Work – January 2018 |
| Religious people in the United States spend about £900 a year supporting their religious institution; but more than a third feel pressured by peers to do so. This was among the findings of a survey of 875 Christian, Jewish, and Muslim people (of equal numbers) in the country, conducted by the finance blog LendEDU, last month. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Church Times – 15th December 2017 |
| Ireland remains one of the most religious countries in Europe, despite a decade or more of scandals and a notable decline in church attendance, a European study suggests. Almost 30% (29.9) of those who responded said that they attended church services on a weekly basis; 4.1% attended more than once a week; and 1.8% were daily worshippers, bringing the total of regular churchgoers to 35.8%. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Church Times - 10th November 2017 |
| The use of ‘gender-neutral’ language to refer to God is being encouraged by the Church of Sweden, after a change in policy. Clergy are urged to use the term “God” during church services instead of “He” or “the Lord”. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Christian Institute - 1st December 2017 |
| For the first time on record, more than half of the UK population has no religion. That’s according to the latest British Social Attitudes survey. The proportion professing to be non-religious has gradually increased from 31% in 1983 to 53% today. The survey also found only 15% of people in Britain now describe themselves as Anglican, compared to 30% in 2000. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Premier Christianity - October 2017 |
| A new survey suggests that, among scientific and technical professionals in the UK, Germany, and France, atheists are in minority. Among the British respondents, almost half catagorised themselves as between spiritual and religious; 21 per cent said that they were agnostic and 25 per cent said that they were atheist. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Church Times - 22nd September 2017 |
| The BBC reported in August that many Iranian refugees in the Netherlands are converting to Christianity. The report acknowledged that the lives of those who convert from Islam are at the death penalty for apostasy in Islam and that baptism was linked to visa applications. A former Muslim told how the goodness of Christians’ lives had impressed him and helped him explore the Christian faith. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now - October 2017 |
| 71% of 18 to 24-year-olds say they belong to no religion (British Attitudes Survey). | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Premier Youth and Children’s Work - October 2017 |
| Just 6 per cent of British adults read or listen to the Bible, pray at least once a week, and go to church at least once a month, a new poll commissioned for the Archbishops’ Council Evangelism Task Force suggests. The survey of 8150 British adults was conducted by ComRes in March and published this week. Just over half (51 per cent) of those responding to the survey defined themselves as Christian. This compares with the latest British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey published last week, which found that 41 per cent of 2129 respondents identified themselves as Christian. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Church Times – 15th September 2017 |
| Most Britons believe many of the Ten Commandments are “important principles to live by”, according to a new poll. Commandments against murder, theft and lying are most respected by British adults – but keeping the Sabbath day holy is only backed by one in five. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Christian Institute - 27th October 2017 |
| The annual British Social Attitudes survey has suggested that for the first time, over half of British adults now describe themselves as having 'no religion', although 'no religion' is not the same as identifying as 'atheist' or 'humanist'. There has been a particularly steep decline in those identifying as Anglican. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 8th September 2017 |
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