Thursday, January 5, 2012

UK Christians Are Losing Ground to Nonbelievers; Govt. Poll Finds Christians Dropped by 7 Percent

The Worldwide Religious News website reports today (January 5, 2012) that Christians in England and Wales are losing ground -- about as fast as nonbelievers are gaining it -- according to a new government-sponsored poll.

The British government's latest Citizenship Survey reports that in the five years leading up to 2010, the percentage of declared Christians in the region dropped by seven percent, although they held solid at 70 percent.

Meanwhile, the total of those declaring no religion climbed by six percent, to 21 percent over the same period.

It was the sixth such study since the Citizenship Survey was set up in 2001 by the British government of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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