{"id":96060,"date":"2020-10-14T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96060"},"modified":"2020-10-14T17:47:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:47:37","slug":"christian-today-attendance-at-church-of-england-services-continues-to-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96060","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Attendance at Church of England services continues to decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular attendance at Church of England churches has fallen again, latest figures show.<\/p>\n<p>The number of regular worshippers attending a Church of England church once a month or more decreased by 1% in 2019 to 1.11 million.<\/p>\n<p>On average, 854,000 people attended Church of England services and acts of worship each week in October 2019, a decline of 2.1% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/church.of.englands.digital.reach.grows.as.service.attendance.continues.to.fall\/133448.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">compared to the year before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The additional number of people attending services for schools in Church of England churches rose by 3% to 182,000, but usual Sunday attendance fell by 2% to 690,000 in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/attendance-at-church-of-england-services-continues-to-decline\/135727.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On average, 854,000 people attended Church of England services and acts of worship each week in October 2019, a decline of 2.1% compared to the year before. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WpltS4wHph\">https:\/\/t.co\/WpltS4wHph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christian Today (@ChristianToday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianToday\/status\/1315618753636335616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2020<\/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>Regular attendance at Church of England churches has fallen again, latest figures show. The number of regular worshippers attending a Church of England church once a month or more decreased by 1% in 2019 to 1.11 million. On average, 854,000<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96060\">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":[389,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/96060","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=96060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96064,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96060\/revisions\/96064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}