Tags: Religion & Belief
Almost thirty per cent of Brits now say they don’t believe in God
Posted: Wed, 14 Nov 2012
A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times of 1,642 adults has found that 29% of respondents said they definitely don't believe in God. Read More »
Only a small minority of Arabs “profoundly religious” finds poll
Posted: Tue, 09 Oct 2012
A new opinion poll conducted among 16,000 people in 12 Arab countries shows that only 19 per cent consider themselves to be "profoundly religious". Read More »
Swiss drifting away from religion
Posted: Fri, 28 Sep 2012
A large-scale study of Swiss attitudes to religion has been carried out by the University of Lausanne. They discovered the same trends of secularisation occurring in Switzerland as in the rest of Europe. Read More »
Poll shows little belief in creationism in Britain
Posted: Fri, 28 Sep 2012
A poll of 2,010 Britons, carried out by Angus Reid Public Opinion shows that only 17% say they believe that God created human beings in their present form within the last 10,000 years. Read More »
It’s official: Britain is a nation of secularists
Posted: Thu, 20 Sep 2012
On the heels of claims from the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles that Britain is a Christian nation and that the Government intends to find a greater role for religion in policy-making, come two large-scale polls showing that our country is not, by any stretch of the imagination, religious. Read More »
Another sharp fall in religious affiliation in Britain
Posted: Wed, 12 Sep 2012
The latest edition of the British Social Attitudes Survey, which will be published on Monday (17 September 2012) will show that only about half of Britons as a whole now say they have a religious affiliation, sharply down from 20 years ago when it was two-thirds. Barely a quarter of young people now identify themselves as religious. Read More »
UK Government accused of not upholding freedom of belief
Posted: Fri, 07 Sep 2012
The European Court of Human Rights hearing on 4 September 2012 has heard accusations from applicants that the UK Government is not upholding freedom of belief. Read More »
Number of atheists around the world is rising
Posted: Wed, 08 Aug 2012
According to the latest global poll released by RedC Opinion Poll, part of WIN-Gallup International, a world-wide network of leading opinion pollsters, the number of self-declared atheists in the world has risen by 9% since the measure was last taken in 2005. Read More »
Most Irish people still describe themselves as 'Catholic' – but in name only
Posted: Thu, 07 Jun 2012
A new Ipsos MRBI poll for the Irish Times shows that although 89 per cent of people in Ireland still describe themselves as 'Catholic', it is not Catholicism as the Pope knows it. Read More »
Survey shows belief in God declining worldwide
Posted: Fri, 20 Apr 2012
Belief in God is declining gradually worldwide, with faith highest among older people, a report released by the University of Chicago on Wednesday found. Read More »
Easter polls show that most Britons aren't interested in religion
Posted: Wed, 11 Apr 2012
An Easter YouGov poll for The Sun, in which a representative sample of 1,742 adults were interviewed, found that Britons are, in the main, uninterested in religion. Read More »
Christian GP who tried to convert a patient will face a new GMC hearing
Posted: Wed, 07 Mar 2012
The doctor accused of trying to convert a patient to Christianity in a consultation is to face a new hearing by the General Medical Council in June, after the regulator ruled the patient can testify by phone. Read More »
State-sponsored religions are undesirable, says UN
Posted: Wed, 07 Mar 2012
State-sanctioned religions risk alienating minorities and discriminating against members of other faiths, an independent United Nations human rights expert warned this week. Read More »
Christian discrimination report is just another call for special privileges
Posted: Tue, 28 Feb 2012
Last year, the evangelical Christian MP Gary Streeter set up what he called "an inquiry" into whether Christians are being 'marginalised' in the UK. It has now produced a report jointly with the Evangelical Alliance UK. Read More »
Muslims more successful at enforcing their religion from generation to generation
Posted: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
An academic study by Cardiff University shows that the proportion of adult Muslims actively practising the faith they were brought up in as children was 77%. That compares with 29% of Christians and 65% of other religions. Read More »
Poll reveals majority of Christians support secular outlook
Posted: Tue, 14 Feb 2012
Results of a poll carried out by Ipsos MORI for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science show that UK Christians are overwhelmingly secular in their attitudes on a wide range of issues. Read More »
Catholic and Episcopal churches shrinking
Posted: Thu, 09 Feb 2012
Statistics from the latest edition of the Catholic Directory of England and Wales reveal a picture of a shrinking church. Read More »
Census religion question questioned
Posted: Wed, 25 Jan 2012
Questions in test surveys by the Government before the last Census revealed more people said they had no religion than the question chosen for the Census did. Read More »
Church of England continues to shrink according to official figures
Posted: Thu, 19 Jan 2012
Provisional statistics released this week by the Church of England show the Church continuing to shrink. Average Sunday attendance in 2010 continued in a downward trend, falling by two per cent to 923,700 or around 1.5% of the UK population. Read More »
Mosques out of step with needs of young Muslims, says prison advisor
Posted: Thu, 12 Jan 2012
Young Muslim men are turning away from religion in their droves because of the old-fashioned attitudes in Britain's mosques, according to the Prison Service's Muslim advisor. Read More »
