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| Around 70% of Muslim prison imams subscribe to a hard-line interpretation of Islam, an independent review has warned. The study, conducted by the Home Office, is to be published next month. Commissioned by Justice Secretary Michael Gove, the research surveyed 200 imams working in UK prisons. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 13th February 2016 |
| New analysis of findings from Britain’s national happiness index has found that having a faith can make you happier. The figures indicated that people who say they have no religious affiliation report lower levels of happiness, life satisfaction and self-worth than those who do. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 5th February 2016 |
| Hindu nationalists have hit out at Christians and Muslims in India, after the number of adherents to ‘Bharatiya’ (traditionally Indian) faiths fell, according to the recently released results of the 2011 decennial national census. Although the overall proportion of Christians fell marginally in the last decade from 2.34% to 2.30%, there was a 13% increase in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, causing Hindus to complain of a ‘serious religious imbalance’ in the state. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now - January 2016 |
| Britain is no longer a Christian country and should stop acting as if it is, said a major inquiry into the place of religion in modern society commissioned by the Woolf Institute. The two-year commission chaired by the former senior judge Baroness Butler-Sloss and involving leading religious leaders from all faiths, calls for public life in Britain to be systematically de-Christianised. It says that the decline of churchgoing and the rise of Islam and other faith mean a ‘new settlement’ is needed for religion in the UK, giving more official influence to non-religious voices and those of non-Christian faiths. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now - January 2016 |
| Zuism, a religion based on ancient Sumerian beliefs, has become the fastest growing religious group in Iceland. But the thousands of residents now raising its banner have joined for an earth-bound reason. Zuists want to abolish state funding for religious groups in Iceland. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Third Way - Winter 2015 |
| People across the country who have dyslexia can now read the Bible more easily, thanks to a new Bible format...Mark’s Gospel and the Psalms have been printed in a dyslexia-friendly format using thick cream paper, a clear typeface and a single column of text to make the reading of it easier. One in ten Britons live with dyslexia which can affect reading and writing. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now - November 2015 |
| Nearly half the UK population has no religion, according to a new YouGov survey for Lancaster University. The research found that 46 per cent of adults of all backgrounds have no religion, while 42 per cent say they are Christian. Those with no religion have been dubbed the ‘nones’. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 22nd January 2016 |
| The number of people attending Church of England services each week has for the first time dropped below 1 million – accounting for less than 2 per cent of the population – with Sunday attendances falling to 760,000. Numbers attending church services have fallen by 12 per cent in the past decade, to less than half the levels of the 1960s. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 15th January 2016 |
| There were only 80 Christians in the UAE in 1910 (0.1 per cent of the population) and 50 in Saudi Arabia. However, according to new figures, in 2010, Christianity increased to 12.6 per cent of UAE's population and 4.4 per cent of Saudi Arabia's. Between the two countries alone there are now well over one million Christians. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 15th January 2016 |
| Christianity is being "silenced" within the UK’s public sector, according to a former top Whitehall civil servant. William Nye said talking about Christianity in the civil service is becoming increasingly "odd and unusual". | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christian Concern - 9th January 2016 |
| A report led by Baroness Butler-Sloss which said that Britain is no longer a Christian country has been criticised by cabinet ministers who said it was ‘seriously misguided’ and by the Church of England which claimed it appeared to have been ‘hijacked’ by humanists. The report into religion and belief in Britain, calls for a ‘new settlement’ for religion because the religious landscape has been ‘transformed’ by a growth in non-Christian religions and numbers of people with no religion. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 11th December 2015 |
| 57% of people in England identify as Christians (but only 9% are practising). 41% of practising Christians attribute their faith to growing up in a Christian home. 40% of people do not realise Jesus was a real person who actually lived. 25% of 18-to-34-year-olds thinks Jesus was a mythical or fictional character. 43% of people believe in the resurrection. 66% of practising Christians have talked about Jesus to a non-Christian in the past month. 72% of practising Christians feel comfortable talking to non-Christians about Jesus. 44% of practising Christians credit their friends for introducing them to Jesus. ‘Spiritual’, ‘loving’ and ‘peaceful’ are the words most commonly used to describe Jesus. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - November 2015 |
| Christianity could completely disappear from parts of the Middle East within five years according to ‘The Aid to the Church in Need’ document. It says if the exodus of Christians from Iraq continues at existing levels Christianity will be wiped out in the country by 2020. The report also says that Christians in Syria number as few as 500,000 today compared to 1.25 million in 2011. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Bible Society - 16th October 2015 |
| A survey in Scotland has found that almost half of Scottish adults do not identify with any religion. The Scottish household survey saw 47.3% respond ‘none’ when asked about their faith. Five years ago the figure was 40%. The Church of Scotland is still the most popular denomination in the country, with 27. 8% of the population identifying themselves as part of the Church. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Christianity - October 2015 |
| 50% of young people who identify as Christians don’t read their Bible more than once a month. 83% of Christian young people think sex is only for marriage; only 36% think homosexuality is a sin. 40% of employed youth workers “struggle” to worship in their church. 75% of full-time youth workers spend eight hours or less working face to face with young people per week: just a fifth of their time is spent with young people. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Youthwork - August 2015 |
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