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| Sixty-five per cent of UK Christians say they have experienced the supernatural, with a quarter having had such an experience in the last seven days. The study carried out by Christian Research...showed that just five per cent did not believe in the supernatural, while two-thirds felt dark forces could be behind it as well as God. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - October 2016 |
| 96% of British Muslims do not believe that 9/11 was carried out by al-Qaeda, according to a new Policy Exchange survey. The survey is the largest to have been conducted on Muslims in Britain. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 16th December 2016 |
| The Archbishop of Canterbury says the Government has a seriously flawed view of extremism that places Christians alongside extreme Muslim groups. The Archbishop also recounted a conversation where he told a politician that he was an “extremist” because he believed the “kingdom of God outweighs everything else”. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Christian Institute - 11th November 2016 |
| The latest Scottish Household Survey (SHS) has revealed that nearly half of Scottish adults are not religious. When a question about religion was first introduced to the SHS in 2009, 40% of those asked selected ‘none’ in the religion category - an increase of 10% points in the last 6 years. The most recent SHS also shows that there is a corresponding decrease in the number of people selecting ‘Church of Scotland’, falling from 34% to 25%. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 30th September 2016 |
| A US study suggests UK women are more likely to pray and attend religious services than men. Carried out by the Pew Research Center, Christian women in the UK were found to be 16% more likely to pray every day than men. Women were also more likely to see faith as a ‘very important’ part of their lives. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - May 2016 |
| Research from Florida Atlantic University discovered a threefold increase in the number of people who consider themselves to be atheists. However, the percentage believing in life after death rose from 76% to 79%. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - May 2016 |
| The number of people who say they have no religion now outnumbers the Christian population of England and Wales, according to the British Social Attitudes survey reported in late May. The people that identified themselves as having no religion reached 48.5% in 2014, up from 25% in 2011, while Christians now make up 43.8% of the population. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now – July 2016 |
| Research from think-tank Theos, which analysed 139 studies over more than 30 years, has linked well-being and religious belief. The study confirmed religion affects a person's happiness and personal satisfaction; particularly participation in social activities, like church groups, and clubs. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 1st July 2016 |
| The advocate general for the EU-run European Court of Justice’s - which is separate from the European Court of Human Rights - has said that employers may ban the wearing of headscarves, crosses and other religious attire. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 3rd June 2016 |
| A number of UK Christian unions have been banned from holding meetings on college premises, as a result of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy Prevent. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 10th June 2016 |
| The number of people who say they have no religion now outnumbers the Christian population of England and Wales according to the British Social Attitudes survey. The people that identified themselves as having no religion reached 48.5% in 2014, up from 25% in 2011, while Christians now make up 43.8% of the population. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 27th May 2016 |
| The Bible has been labelled one of the most objected to books in American libraries. It is sixth in the American Library Association’s list of ten books that also includes Fifty Shades of Grey. The Association does not object to Bibles being in libraries, but supports the idea that other religious materials should be on offer such as the Quran. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 15th April 2016 |
| ScotCen Social Research has released data which shows that the proportion of people in Scotland who attend religious services is at the lowest since the survey began in 1999. The proportion of people who say they are religious but do not attend services has grown from 49 per cent in 1999 to 66 per cent in 2016. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 8th April 2016 |
| A Survey revealed in February that the majority of Americans value the Bible and want to see it have a greater role in politics as well as in the church. The American Bible Society’s fifth annual State of the Bible survey polled 2,000 Americans on questions related to the Bible, culture, the church and politics. Surprisingly, 51% of Americans said that the Bible has too little influence on society today. However, according to part of the survey summary, ‘one quarter of adults say they never hear the Bible read aloud at a church service or mass’. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now – April 2016 |
| A new study conducted in Canada has suggested that belief in powerful Gods is absolutely vital for the development of civilisation. The previous consensus among anthropologists has been that it was the advent of agriculture that allowed large communities to form cooperative societies. But this view is being challenged by archaeologists discovering that large ceremonial monuments seem to proceed farming communities and must have been built by communities working together under one belief system. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Third Way - March 2016 |
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