{"id":56686,"date":"2016-12-14T02:20:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T02:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rci_whats_happening_to_canadian_churches\/"},"modified":"2016-12-14T02:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T02:20:29","slug":"rci_whats_happening_to_canadian_churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56686","title":{"rendered":"(RCI) What\u2019s happening to Canadian churches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All across Canada, churches are being abandoned and sold, the historic buildings are often then torn down.<\/p>\n<p>It seems membership in traditional Christian churches is declining. The Anglican church for example went from  a high of over 1,360,000 parishioners in 1964 to less than half by 2001 at 641,865.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, in the province of Quebec, some  2,751 places of worship were identified by Quebec\u2019s Religious Heritage Council. Since then 400 have closed. Quoted by Post Media, Council project manager Denis Boucher says the rhythm of closures is increasing, \u201cA church closes every week. It is a huge phenomenon\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/en\/2016\/12\/13\/whats-happening-to-canadian-churches\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All across Canada, churches are being abandoned and sold, the historic buildings are often then torn down. It seems membership in traditional Christian churches is declining. The Anglican church for example went from a high of over 1,360,000 parishioners in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56686\">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":[39,50,207,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56686","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=56686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}