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| J K Rowling has sold 200 million books in 200 countries. According to Bloomsbury, the book's UK publisher, 1,777,541 copies were sold in Britain on the day it came out; in America, publisher Scholastic sold more than five million copies on the same day. |
| Youthwork - August 2003 |
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| The BBC devote a minimum of 112 hours a year to religious programming on BBC1 and 2, with around 400 hours on network radio. |
| Christian Herald - 12 July 2003 |
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| 'More than 4,000 people were said to have become Christians at a Next Generation Alliance (NGA) 10-day mission to Albania in June. |
| Christian Herald - 12 July 2003 |
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| More than 4,000 young people have signed up for Festival Manchester, which will see an estimated 300 Action ("A") Teams complete over 64,000 hours of community action work in just four days. |
| Christian Herald - 23 August 2003 |
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| New Wine has once again celebrated a bumper conference with an estimated 21,000 delegates, including day visitors, over two weeks. |
| Christian Herald - 23 August 2003 |
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| 'The Bishop of Birmingham reacted to the news that Idi Amin died in exile in Saudi Arabia with regret that the former Ugandan dictator |
| Christian Herald - 23 August 2003 |
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| According to a poll by the Washington Post nearly half of American church-goers would leave their church if the minister blessed homosexual couples. The survey also found that 60% of all Americans opposed last week's decision by the Episcopal Church's general convention to give its bishops the option of blessing same-sex relationships. Opposition was strongest among American's who go to church every week. |
| Christian Herald - 23 August 2003 |
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| 'Clean-cut Scottish Christian wins sleazy reality TV show. (Big Brother) Cathy Le Feuvre, Head of Media at the Evangelical Alliance, says, |
| Direction - Issue 24 September 2003 |
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| Alpha's sixth campaign hits the streets. More than 1.5 million people have already completed the 15-session introduction to Christianity in Britain and a MORI poll last year showed that more than eight million adults recognised Alpha as a Christian course. |
| Direction - Issue 24 September 2003 |
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| Over 60% of people in Britain would describe themselves as Christian, and yet church attendance runs at under 9% and is falling rapidly. There are one third less people attending church today than in the nation 30 years ago. On present trends, only 2% of the population will be church attenders in 30 year's time. |
| Direction - Issue 24 September 2003 |
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Canon Gene Robinson's election to Bishop of New Hampshire, USA, had been dramatically halted on August 4 by email allegations of sex abuse, but was finally confirmed on August 5, after the allegations had been cleared.
Canon Robinson's controversial election to the post was passed by a vote of 62 to 45 in favour by the Episcopal Church's General Convention. |
| Evangelicals Now - September 2003 |
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| Leading pro-life charities are delighted at news that the Family Planning Association (FPA) has failed in its attempt to extend abortionism to Northern Ireland. |
| Evangelicals Now - September 2003 |
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| ver the past 30 years, religious intolerance has triggered the forced expulsion of some 35,000 evangelicals from ancestral lands in Chamula and other districts. Despite the unrelenting pressure, evanglical Christianity has grown steadily throughout Chiapas. Today 35% of the state population adheres to evangelicalism according to census figures. |
| Evangelicals Now - September 2003 |
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| A new translation of the New Testament in Persian was launched by Elam Ministries at Hammersmith Town Hall in London on July 19. Over 60% of Iran's 70 million population is under the age of 21, so there is a great need for a modern translation. |
| Evangelicals Now - September 2003 |
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| 'In the 1980's alone, more than 60,000 copies of the Child Bible were produced in Russian and a further 36,000 were translated into Ukranian. Almost 100,000 were printed in Chinese. |
| Scottish Catholic Observer - Friday August 15 2003 |
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