Key Quotes for 2003

A world perspective in bite-size chunks
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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
Goodness is stronger than evil: Love is stronger than hate; Light is stronger than darkness; Life is stronger than death; Victory is ours through him who loves us."
Desmond Tutu, South Africa
 
Total weekly church attendance is on average 1.2m, whilst average Sunday church attendance is approximately 1m. Monthly church attendance is more than 1.7m. Something like 2.6m probably attended worship on Christmas Eve/Day.
Christianity + Renewal - Issue February, 2003
 
Gandhi - Christianity + Renewal - Issue February, 2003
 
We've lost a million people from our churches in ten years. two-thirds of young adults claim to have no religion at all.
Christianity + Renewal - Issue February, 2003
 
Christian life could be virtually dead in 40 years, with less than 0.5% of the population attending a church service.
Christianity + Renewal - Issue February, 2003
 
The faith is largely spread through enthusiasts, or "active" believers...The enthusaistic phase of a believer only lasts a certain length of time, after which they become inactive.
University of Glamorgan's Division of Mathematics and Statistics - Christianity + Renewal - Issue February, 2003
 
It's probably not surprising that post - 9/11, religion-based movies have found a revived market. And it helps that in a recent survey, 59% of Americans said they believe that the events described in the Revelations will happen. There are currently no plans to market these movies in the slightly more sober UK, but with both Cloud Ten and Gener8xion planning further projects...for American cinemagoers at least, this looks like the beginning of The End.
Empire - Issue December 2002
 
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
 
A survey of 500 clerics has found that more than a quarter reject the traditional nativity story, especially the virgin birth of Jesus. The Sunday Telegraph survey quoted sceptics claiming that the virgin birth story was a literary tradition or a product of poor biblical translations. But most of the doubters indicated that they would not be expressing their doubts in their Christmas services or from the pulpit.
The Church of England Newspaper - Issue Thursday January 2nd, 2003
 
Six Christians were killed in Murree Christian school in Pakistan by Islamic extremists. This attack was followed by the deaths of three nurses when terrorists threw a grenade near a chapel at the Taxila Christian hospital - a further 25 were injured. The same terror group killed seven charity workers in a raid on a Christian organisation in Karachi.
The Church of England Newspaper - Issue Thursday January 2nd, 2003
 
At the memorial service in St Paul's in October for the 180 victims of the Bali bombing, the Archbishop of Canterbury said in his final major address: "We find ourselves confronted with the appalling prospect of the kind of mind that can, for religious or ideological reasons, destroy at random the lives of others. Our enemy is not Islam, or any religion, but it is that which uses religion and cultural identity as a mask for its design - to intimidate and break down what the civilised world has built up. Do not let evil bury it... it will fail. It will not succeed if we stand together."
The Church of England Newspaper - Issue Thursday January 2nd, 2003
 
For unless enmities and hatred are put away and firm, honest agreements concerning world peace are reached in the future, humanity, which already is in the middle of a grave crisis, will perhaps be brought to that dismal hour in which it will experience no peace other than the dreadful peace of death...[But the Church] intends to propose to our age over and over again...this apostolic message: 'Behold, now is the acceptable time for a change of heart; behold now is the day of salvation.
Gaudium et Spes 82.3 - Published in the Scottish Catholic Observer - Issue Friday, January 3rd, 2003
 
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