Key Quotes for 2004

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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
Church attendance in rural areas is declining twice as fast as in towns and cities, with a loss of more than a third in the ten years from 1989, according to a new report from the Christian Research Association. The report, commishioned by the charity Rural Ministries, found that rural churches lost one third of their attendance over the period, with more remote congregations shrinking by up to 42 per cent.
ChurchReform - June 2004
 
Evangelical Presbyterian, Anglican and Baptist churches are active in outreach into local communities, where only about 10 per cent of Australians attend churches regularly.
ChurchEvangelical Times - June 2004
 
Revealing figures, released by Caritas in Italy, show that 50.3 per cent of all migrants to Italy are Christian. There are today 2,547,736 officially registered migrants in the country; 1,281,489 are Christian, while 32.4 per cent are Muslim - a total of 824,342. This shows an increase of Christian migrants since 1991 from 44.6 per cent to 50.3 per cent, while the number of Muslim immigrants has decreased from 38 per cent to 32.4 per cent.
The Christian migrants belong to the different Christian denomination, as follows: 25.5 per cent are Catholic (many from Poland and the Philippines); 18.5 per cent are Orthodox (mainly Romania, the Ukraine and Bulgaria); 4.5 per cent are Protestants.
Religion/SpiritualityThe Universe - 30th May 2004
 
Spring Harvest, already described as the biggest Christian conference in Europe, attracts around 30,000 people of all ages to each of the two venues.
Religion/SpiritualityThe Church of England Newspaper - 22nd April 2004
 
Radio 1, attracts around 50 per cent of the 15 to 24 population.
EntertainmentThe Radio Magazine - 8th May 2004
 
Almost 60 per cent of Palestinians said they would prefer that a future Palestinian state follow Islamic religious laws rather than those endorsed by the Palestinian Legislative Council, according to a recent poll.
PoliticsThe Unuiverse - 9th May 2004
 
The Philippines has a scarred history dominated by the golden rule - those with the most gold rule. The election is a struggle between the elite dynastic families, each is led by a powerful patriarch and supported by rich cronies. These 200 families control 72 per cent of the wealth of the Philippines.
MoneyThe Unuiverse - 9th May 2004
 
The number of violent incidents in films shown on television is reflected in the increase in violent crimes in society, campaigners claimed this week.
The number of violent incidents monitored was found to be 2,266 with 44.6 of the incidents in films shown on five. BBC2 showed the fewest number of violent incidents in films broadcast with a total of 55 incidents.
Offences of violence in England and Wales, according to the latest statistics, are up by 14 per cent, a figure which mediawatch-UK attributes in part to the influence of television.
EntertainmentThe Church of England Newspaper - 6th May 2004
 
In the 1980s child poverty increased dramatically. By the mid 1990s over four million (one in three) children were living in poverty.
Poverty in childhood is linked to poor health, poor educational outcomes, poor relationships in adult life, crime, drugs and much else.
In the 1970s only eight per cent of children lived in lone-parent households - now it is 25 per cent.
There are more children living in poor two-parent families than one-parent families-2 million as compared with 1.6 million.
By contrast, of the 2 million children living in poor two-parent families 70 per cent (1.4 million) live in a household where one or both parents work. Tax credits do not lift these families out of poverty.
MoneyThe Church of England Newspaper - 6th May 2004
 
15,000 under-16-year-olds are given the boot by their parents or guardians every year. And more than half of them are girls!
Nearly a quarter of children interviewed stated they do not get on with their parents, 13 per cent said they'd been hit by their parents and 12 per cent said they feel their parents don't care for them.
More than 3,000 children say they've been very badly treated by family, so-called friends or strangers after being kicked out.
FamilyKids Alive - 1st May 2004
 
Relaxing immigration is a way of effectively helping our poorer neighbours. At the end of the 1980s the World Bank estimated that $65bn in earnings by foreign workers went back to their countries of origin - about $20bn more than the sum of aid from wealthier to poorer countries.
MoneyChristian Herald - 24th April 2004
 
Donations to the Salvation Army have risen incredibly in recent years - says Commissioner Alex Hughes, the head of the Salvation Army in Britain and Ireland. In the past decade they have more than trebled, from £11.5 million in 1993-94 to £37.9m in 2002-03.
MoneyChristian Herald - 24th April 2004
 
Research has found that one in five young people has a bank loan by the age of 18, and 76 per cent of 16 to 34-year-olds think it inevitable that people will get into debt.
Furthermore, 76 per cent of men and 80 per cent of women surveyed did not like the prospect of being in debt. Only 23 per cent of women and 34 per cent of men were confident with personal finances.
MoneyThe War Cry - 1st May 2004
 
It is said that about 20 per cent of the population fear flying, even though statistically it is the safest form of transport.
Travel/TourismThe War Cry - 1st May 2004
 
Three in five working mothers would prefer to stay at home with their children rather than go out to work, according to new research carried out for Prima Baby magazine.
Results found that just 12 per cent of working mums wanted to pursue a challenging career, while 60 per cent said they were back at work only because they couldn't afford not to be.
Two fifths of the 800 women surveyed had sacrificed holidays or their own clothing needs to fund childcare.
Since last April parents have had the right to ask for more flexible working practices and some 17 per cent of mothers had asked to work flexibly. Another 37 per cent intended to ask their bosses for more flexibility in the future.
With many businesses having difficulties finding skilled workers, it is significant that a massive 72 per cent of mothers said employers flexibility would influence their decision on whether they would go back to work after having children.
FamilyThe War Cry - 1st May 2004
 
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