UK: Church of England Puts Liberal Agenda Into Overdrive in Bid to Avoid Three More Decades of Decline

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The Church of England faces at least another three decades of decline as its elderly population is dying off faster than young people are coming into the church. In an attempt to reverse the trend, the Church’s leadership is pinning its hopes on its “Renewal and Reform” drive, designed to make the clergy less male and less white.

In January, figures from the Church’s annual attendance survey showed that weekly attendance had dropped below the million mark for the first time, with Sunday attendance now at an all-time low of 760,000.

The numbers made sobering reading for a church which is tasked with preserving Christian cultural heritage in the form of hundreds of listed buildings across the country, not to mention with championing the de facto religion of the nation.

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