56% of Episcopal parishes and missions were founded before 1901
- Small towns, rural areas and open country are home to only 17% of Episcopal congregations
- Of congregations in or near a city of at least 50,000 population 28% are located in the downtown or central city area
- The vast majority (98%) of Episcopal congregations hold regular worship services every week of the year.
- 39% of Episcopal churches report that attendance is more than 60% of seating capacity at the service with the largest attendance.
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Date: 11/15/2005
2005 Christian Research Census shows the State of the Church in England
- The Christian Resource Census showed that in the 1990s 1 million people left church in nine years but in the seven years from 1998-2005 only a half million left
- Over a third of churches, 34%, are growing (compared with 21% in 1998)
- 16% are now stable (up from 14%)
- 25%, of the churches which were declining in the 1990s have not only stemmed their losses, but have turned their church around and are now growing.
- The effect is that overall 6.3% of the population are now in church on an average Sunday (7.5% in 1998), with others attending midweek.
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Date: 11/9/2005
Survey reveals that College Students have a Different View on Faith
- 84 percent of teenagers state that they believe in a god
- 79 percent of college freshmen claim that there is some supernatural element to the universe
- Each year over 150,000 new freshmen change their mind about their belief in God
- 71 percent of teenagers agree that there will be a judgment day when God punishes evildoers
- Only 19 percent of teenagers have "some" or "many" doubts about God
- Two-thirds (65%) of college juniors report that they question their religious/spiritual beliefs at least occasionally
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Date: 11/8/2005
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