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Last update: Wednesday 25th March




An estimated 97 per cent of Greece's 10 million people belong to the Orthodox Church.
Church	Christian Herald - 20th March 2004



7 per cent of people attend a weekly religious service, he pointed out that in the 2001 UK census 72 per cent of people called themselves Christian and only 3 per cent said they were atheists.
Church	Christian Herald - 21st February 2004



The statistics in the UK Christian Handbook: Religious Trends, paint a lamentable picture. Church membership across Britain could fall to 5,598,000 by 2005 according to current trends - down by more than a million people in 15 years.
Church	The Church of England Newspaper - 25th March 2004



A major piece of research has just been completed with Pilot's, the URC's non-uniformed organisation for children and young people. Funding from the Department for Education and Skills allowed for a questionnaire to go to roughly 500 Voyagers (11-14 year olds) and Navigators (15-18 year olds) last year. Around 60 per cent responded. Given that 70 per cent of Pilots are from a non-church background and that many churches struggle to retain young people in these age groups this research reveals that Pilots can be a brilliant option for retaining young people and creating positive and sustained relationships between them, their families, and local congregations. 91 per cent attend their Pilots Company every week, whilst 29 per cent attend worship every Sunday. This suggests that, whilst regular Sunday attendance is far less attractive, Pilots provides the weekly link with a church. 40 per cent have joined Pilots in the last 2 years and 38 per cent have been in Pilots for 2-5 years, with 22 per cent being members for longer than 5 years. Pilots is allowing churches and young people to stay together for years. The top ten things (in order) that they like best about Pilots are: Playing Games, Meeting friends, Learning and worshipping God, Making new friends, Doing crafts, Attending trips and camps, Everything, Learning about other countries, Helping others, Sport.
Church	Reform - April 2004



"Brethren assemblies are in decline. 1,106 churches in 1998 represents a significant reduction from the 1,356 extant in 1990 - a rate of closure of 30 churches per year. Membership of the movement is now said to be between 50,000 and 65,000 people, compared with perhaps double that 50 years ago. These are worrying statistics; and, with 35 per cent of congregations currently having three fifths of members over the age of 60, the decline could be much greater in decades to come. But the figures are not all gloom. There are some heartening findings, especially when the data is split into three strands: small churches (the 35 per cent of churches with less than 30 members), large churches (the 23 per cent with more than 70 members), and the rest. Though the mean small church is said to be in terminal decline, the mean large church is growing. 17 per cent of all congregations now have over 100 members and 14 of the responding churches had over 200.
Church	Now - March 2004



The Archbishop of Canterbury called on the Church of England to support the work of Anglican provinces in Africa to deal with the AIDS crisis. He stated " The fact is that in an ever-growing world of wealth and plenty, one in four people alive today lives in abject poverty. That has yet to change. But there can be no argument about the fact that the situation is intensified and made yet more tragic by the issue of Aids.
Church	The Church of England Newspaper - 19th February 2004



The Salvation Army in South Africa is continuing its partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme to assist as many people as possible. The number of people being fed has increased enormously. In the first month 3,000 people were fed in Butha Buthe alone. With the addition of the distribution in Mafeteng, the relief programme provides 105,000 people with basic food supplies every month.
Church	Salvationist - 13th March 2004



Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the number of evangelicals has grown from a handful to tens of thousands, with the biggest grouping being Russian Baptists at around 15,000 members.
Church	Idea - March/April 2004



Ireland is rapidly moving from a conservative, religious society to a modern, secular European nation, with Catholic church attendance plummeting from 85 per cent of the population to 50 per cent in 20 years. The 20s-40s age group is the largest in the evangelical Church.
Church	Idea - March/April 2004



Christian churches in the Bradford Diocese are celebrating their expansive community work as part of the Building Pride District Wide campaign along with other major faith groups today. The Rev Sam Randall said "Christians in this region serve 20,000 people, beyond any regular church or school work, and the people served are not churchgoers".
Church	The Church of England Newspaper - February 26th 2004



Listening to Britain's Churches was started before the last General Election and encouraged Christians at the grassroots level that they could help shape Tory policy. Conservative leader Michael Howard stressed that their views matter to the party. Mr Howard said "The evidence I have gained already is that the Church is very much alive and making a real difference to the lives of thousands of people in some of our hardest pressed communities".
Church	The Church of England Newspaper - February 26th 2004



Approximately 17 per cent of Americans consider themselves to be evangelicals.
Church	The Church of England Newspaper - February 26th 2004



The Christian Churches are losing 1,000 children under 15 every week, which is 50,000 a year or half a million every decade.
Church	The Church of England Newspaper - February 26th 2004



Recent statistics have highlighted that only 31% of Anglicans pray daily so, as the Commander of Apollo 13 put it 'Houston, we have a problem'.
Church	Unity, January 2004.



Today, only around 7.5% of British people go to church once a month or more.
Church	C.T.A News, Autumn 2003.

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