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| A recent survey found 58 per cent of Scots said they had no religion compared with 40 per cent when the survey was carried out in 1999. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - August 2017 |
| More than 12,000 people responded to premier’s survey. 93% of respondents said they felt their faith was being marginalised by society. 50% say they have personally experienced prejudice as a result of faith. 23% said they feel unable to be open about their belief in the workplace. 18% said Christianity is given the same respect in society as other worldviews and religions. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - August 2017 |
| A recent survey revealed that many people harbour incredibly negative attitudes to religion. Some 46% of those surveyed said that “religion is a major part of the problem in our world,” whilst 42% think it’s not religion per se but “people of faith” who are the problem. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Inspire issue 114 - July/August 2017 |
| The interpretation of sacred texts should be challenged, ‘queer theology’ should be promoted in seminaries and Sunday schools should talk about abortion, according to a report from a taxpayer-funded group. The extraordinary remarks came in a document from Wilton Park, a foreign affairs discussion organisation, tied to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Christian Institute - 28th July 2017 |
| The Barnabas Fund has highlighted that a report by Wilton Park (an executive agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) urges reinterpretation of Scripture and the imposition of LGBTI ideology on evangelical Christians in the Global South. The report describes biblical sexual morality has 'hateful' and evangelical Christians in prejudicial terms. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 21st July 2017 |
| A survey of around 12,000 Christians found that 93% believe their faith is being marginalised in society. Half say they have personally experienced prejudice, and only 29% believe society considers it acceptable for Christians to share their faith. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 21st July 2017 |
| 20 per cent of Latin Americans are now describe themselves as Protestant. 65 per cent of Protestants in South America identify as Pentecostal. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - June 2017 |
| The number of people identifying as Orthodox Christians in Russia has grown from 37 per cent in 1991 to 71 per cent in 2015. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - June 2017 |
| Care for the Family and Hope launched a report on 31st March that gives fresh insight into encouraging Christian parents to nurture their children’s faith at home. The research revealed that, despite 95% of parents acknowledging it was largely their responsibility to teach their children Christianity, 92% admitted they could do more. Less than three quarters of parents said they shared Bible stories with their children, and only 27% found it helpful talking about faith with them. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now - May 2017 |
| NHS staff will be encouraged to ask dying patients about their ‘religious preferences’ under new guidance for the NHS, it was reported in early March. Staff have been called to do more to ensure that the preferences of patients are addressed after an audit of deaths in England revealed that the spiritual preferences of patients who could be communicated with before dying were rarely recorded. The approach has been praised by the National Council for Palliative Care. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now – April 2017 |
| A poll conducted by the Faith Research Centre has found that only 31% of millennials (18-24s) believe that the UK is a Christian country. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - February 2017 |
| The statistics from the US Pew Research Center show that when it comes to ‘conversion’ growth, Christians are the largest faith group at 31% of the planet as well as being arguably the fastest growing faith group (Pew Research Center, April 23, 2015). | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Go - Jan-Mar 2017 |
| People who practise their faith in a traditional, conservative way could face police investigations under a Government Extremism Bill, the terrorism watchdog has warned. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Christian Institute - 6th January 2016 |
| Excavations in Israel have for the first time discovered an actual physical toilet of the kind referred to in the book of 2 kings. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - November 2016 |
| For the first time ever, 2016 saw more humanist wedding ceremonies taking place in Scotland than those conducted by the Church of Scotland. Figures released by the National Records of Scotland show that 4,290 humanist wedding ceremonies were conducted in 2015, compared to the Church of Scotland’s 4,052. Almost 80% (3,378) were conducted by the Humanist Society of Scotland. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now - October 2016 |
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