{"id":23520,"date":"2010-12-19T17:01:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T17:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sunday_telegraph_churches_halt_decline_new_research_shows\/"},"modified":"2010-12-19T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T17:01:55","slug":"sunday_telegraph_churches_halt_decline_new_research_shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23520","title":{"rendered":"(Sunday Telegraph) Churches halt decline, new research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Anglican churches in Britain has risen for the first time in more than a decade, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>New congregations are being formed to take over old redundant church buildings or to provide more youth-friendly services, helping church membership numbers to rise.<\/p>\n<p>The figures, to be published this week by Christian Research, also reveal that the Roman Catholic Church is continuing to enjoy a rise in attendance at Mass, that the number of Pentecostal worshippers is increasing rapidly and that Baptist churches are also enjoying a resurgence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/8211544\/Churches-halt-decline-new-research-shows.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Anglican churches in Britain has risen for the first time in more than a decade, according to new research. New congregations are being formed to take over old redundant church buildings or to provide more youth-friendly services,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23520\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}