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There were just over 50,000 church buildings or congregations in 1980, a number which is projected to drop slowly over the 40 years since then, down to 44,000 by 2020.
Church	Prophecy Today – July / August 2005



While the high peak for church membership in the UK was in 1930 with over 10 million people and 29% of the population (though the percentage was higher in earlier periods), in 1980 the number had dropped to 7.5 million people and just 13% of the population which had increased substantially in the interim from 46 million in 1930 to 56 million 50 years later.
Church	Prophecy Today – July / August 2005



More than 200 heads of state and global dignitaries, as well as leaders from different faiths and denominations attended the requiem Mass at the Vatican for the Polish-born pontiff, who died at the age of 84 on 2 April after a long illness.
Church	Reform – May 2005



Statistics from a recent survey have found that, 1,000 children are lost to English Sunday Schools each week between 1989 and 1998, 4% of children attending Sunday school in 2,000, compared with 55% in 1900, 41% of churches without any attenders under 20 years of age.
Church	Evangelicals Now – May 2005



11.7 million youth reside in the UK, The English Church Attendance Survey of 1998 found that about 1,000 children under 15 left the church each week in the 1990's, The Youth Workers Profile survey reveals that 17% of churches in England - or about one in six employ a youth worker.
Church	Youthwork - April 2005



More than 1,200 women are now in stipendiary posts, despite 1,000 parishes about 10% of the total, passing a resolution stating that they will not accept a woman priest.
Church	Evangelical Times - April 2005



Church leaders at Truro Cathedral in Cornwall have offered local Muslims a room in the Cathedral premises for the education of young people in the traditions of the Muslim Faith. The acting Dean of Truro believes it is his Christian duty to show hospitality to people of minority groups.
Church	Evangelical Times - February 2005



Church Army has put children and young people firmly at the centre of its 2004 summer appeal. Around the time Church Army was founded, 55 per cent of English children were enrolled in Christian Sunday Schools and today this figure is less than 4 per cent.
Church	Christian Herald - 31st July 2004



Less than 0.2 per cent of Greece's population can be defined as evangelical Christians.
Church	Idea - July/August 2004



Statistics from Christian Research show that of the 70,000 churchgoing children still in church in September 2004, only 20,000 will still be going to church by September 2006.
Church	Christian Marketplace - July 2004



Iraqi Baptists have made huge gains since the fall of Saddam Hussein, according to the pastor of the Baghdad's National Baptist Church, the Revd Nabit Sara. "We have had 140 baptisms in our church so far", said Mr Sara. "We are having to build a bigger hall, the church is growing so fast.
Church	The Baptist Times - 8th July 2004



The survey, Churches and Children found that less than a third of churches interviewed were shown to have an established recruitment policy (31 per cent), while only slightly more (34 per cent) take up written references before appointing workers. Both were key recommendations of the Government report, Safe from Harm, issued over ten years ago, detailing guidelines for safeguarding children's welfare. Alarmingly, 9 per cent of churches had no selection process whatsoever and accept all who apply. 75 per cent of churches in England know about the CCPAS (Churches Child Protection Advisory Service) child protection manual and more than one in five use it. An impressive 83 per cent of churches supervising offenders who could pose a risk to children use CCPAS pastoral support and supervision guidelines.
Church	Joy - June 2004



More than a thrid of Church of Scotland ministers would accept gay church members according to a recent survey. A poll of ministers and church youth workers published in a new book, Sexuality and Salvation, reveals that 38 per cent of ministers and 50 per cent of church youth workers accept gay and lesbian worshippers.
Church	Evangelical Times - July 2004



In 1990 there were 106,669 families in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Thirteen years later there were 92,233, a fall of 13.53 per cent or about 1 per cent a year.
Church	Presbyteran Herald - June 2004



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.
Church	Reform - June 2004

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