{"id":49793,"date":"2015-05-13T21:29:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/belfast_telegraph_church_of_ireland_faces_shrinking_congregations_crisis\/"},"modified":"2015-05-13T21:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:29:44","slug":"belfast_telegraph_church_of_ireland_faces_shrinking_congregations_crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49793","title":{"rendered":"(Belfast Telegraph) Church of Ireland faces shrinking congregations crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Church of Ireland has said &#8220;we may as well close the doors now&#8221; if it cannot solve the problem of falling attendances.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Richard Clarke made the comments after it was revealed in a survey that only 15% of Irish Anglicans attend services on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>This represents just 58,000 out of a total of 378,000 who claim affiliation to the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/northern-ireland\/church-of-ireland-faces-shrinking-congregations-crisis-31211426.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Church of Ireland has said &#8220;we may as well close the doors now&#8221; if it cannot solve the problem of falling attendances. Archbishop Richard Clarke made the comments after it was revealed in a survey that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49793\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,409,199,440,325,437,435,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49793","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-ireland","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-ireland","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49793","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=49793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}