{"id":50097,"date":"2015-06-02T15:15:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T15:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tablet_c_of_e_continues_to_haemorrhage_members_as_muslim_population_grows_t\/"},"modified":"2015-06-02T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T15:15:40","slug":"tablet_c_of_e_continues_to_haemorrhage_members_as_muslim_population_grows_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50097","title":{"rendered":"(Tablet) C of E continues to haemorrhage members as Muslim population grows tenfold in a generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Membership of the Church of England has dropped sharply in Britain in the last two years while the number of Muslims has grown, a new survey has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The British Social Attitudes survey found that the proportion of British adults describing themselves as Anglican has fallen from 21 per cent in 2012 to 17 per cent in 2014, a loss of around 1.7 million. That brings the number of Anglicans in Britain to 8.6 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of Catholics remained roughly stable at 8 per cent, or just over 4 million, as did that of \u201cother\u201d\u009d Christians, including Methodists, Presbyterians and non-denominational Christians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/news\/2117\/0\/church-of-england-continues-to-haemorrhage-members-as-muslim-population-grows-tenfold-in-a-generation\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Membership of the Church of England has dropped sharply in Britain in the last two years while the number of Muslims has grown, a new survey has revealed. The British Social Attitudes survey found that the proportion of British adults<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50097\">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":[36,48,39,50,42,74,389,199,440,154,155,184,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50097","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=50097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}