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Up until the last 20 years, I would guess that 80% were Christian and at least half were active Christian church goers. So we are trending towards being irreligious, but Christianity is still culturally and politically relevant.
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Sep 2, 2024 · In England and Wales, Christianity had approximately 27.52 million adherents as of 2021. Of Finland’s 5.6 million inhabitants, 3.74 million identified as Christian in 2022.
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In the media, in the heads of many politicians and within broad sections of public opinion, the prevailing view of the role and future of religion still derives from the ideology of the anti-clerical movements from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Paradoxically, this view of religion adopted precisely the clerical view of religion - i...
Europe is the scene of wide-ranging changes. The pace of political, economic, legal and administrative integration of the member and candidate countries of the European Union has become more intense. As the birth-rate falls in many European countries, the number of immigrants from other continents is rising, changing the ethnic and religious struct...
In his justly famous lecture "A Catholic Modernity?" the distinguished Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor raised the question whether present-day Catholic Christianity ought not to attempt a synthesis of faith and modern culture, in the same way that on the threshold of the modern era the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci attempted the enculturationo...
The fall of the Berlin Wall brought to an end one of the great myths of modern times: the Communist illusion of building "the kingdom of heaven" on Earth. I cannot rid myself of the depressing thought that the attack on Manhattan on 11 September 2001 also marked the end of an illusion - namely, the West's conviction that its version of a happy and ...
The enormous power that has been amassed in the hands of humankind and the many recent experiences of its awful abuse have forced people at the present time to revaluate that optimistic and somewhat naive self-confidence of Enlightenment rationalism. It would be irresponsible for people to go on relying on scientific and technical progress to ensur...
Between 1992 and 2022, Christianity declined from 92.9% to 42.5%(Catholicism from 67.8% to 29.2%). In 2022, only 35.5% of people with age group 30-39 identified as Christians, the number further dropping to 32.8% of people with age group 20-29. [47] Among Catholics, only 12% regularly attend church.
May 12, 2015 · Europe is no longer “Christian”, yet let us dare to believe that God will use our lives and prayers to change the destiny of the Europe. “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field (Luke 10:2).”
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Christianity has been practiced in Europe since the first century, and a number of the Pauline Epistles were addressed to Christians living in Greece, as well as other parts of the Roman Empire. According to a 2010 study by the Pew Research Center, 76.2% of the European population identified themselves as Christians. [3]
