{"id":77819,"date":"2019-01-28T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T17:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77819"},"modified":"2019-01-28T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T22:49:10","slug":"dm-just-one-in-ten-babies-is-baptised-into-the-church-of-england-with-the-numbers-even-lower-in-london-at-three-in-every-100-figures-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77819","title":{"rendered":"(DM) Just one in ten babies is baptised into the Church of England with the numbers even lower in London at three in every 100, figures reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Only one in ten babies is baptised into the Church of England \u2013 and in <a id=\"mol-a78ddd80-210b-11e9-a01a-bfa9e174f657\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/london\/index.html\">London<\/a>, the figure is even lower at three in every 100, a national breakdown of the Church\u2019s strength has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The tiny minority of infants who are introduced to Christianity by the CofE in London is mirrored in other major cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In <a id=\"mol-a78d1a30-210b-11e9-a01a-bfa9e174f657\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/birmingham\/index.html\">Birmingham<\/a>, only 5 per cent of babies are christened by the Anglican church; in Bristol it\u2019s 6 per cent; in Manchester 8 per cent; and in Nottingham 9 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6634187\/Just-one-ten-babies-baptised-Church-England.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Such a shame. Just one in ten babies is baptised into the Church of England <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q4kN0neJRe\">https:\/\/t.co\/q4kN0neJRe<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/evm5LdMs4i\">https:\/\/t.co\/evm5LdMs4i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maria Feltham (@suchashame17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/suchashame17\/status\/1089081126226923521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one in ten babies is baptised into the Church of England \u2013 and in London, the figure is even lower at three in every 100, a national breakdown of the Church\u2019s strength has revealed. The tiny minority of infants<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77819\">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":[581,389,199,440,184,436,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baptism","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77819","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=77819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77823,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77819\/revisions\/77823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}