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Tear Fund Survey 2007

One in seven adults in the UK attends a Christian church each month, with nearly 3 million more people saying they would attend church if only they were asked, one of the largest surveys of churchgoing in the UK reveals today (3 April 2007).

The findings of the in-depth survey by Christian relief and development agency Tearfund, also show that, contrary to the UK’s secular image, Christianity is still the dominant faith in the UK. Over half (53%) or 26.2 million adults claim to be Christian.

Churchgoing in the UK – one of the few surveys to track monthly church attendance and the likelihood of non churchgoers attending - shows that 7.6 million adults go to church each month and one in 10 adults attends weekly. One in four (12.6 million) attend at least once a year.

Unexpectedly, the survey shows that 3 million people who have stopped going to church or who have never been in their lives, would consider attending given the right invitation.

Dr Elaine Storkey, President of Tearfund, who also lectures in Theology at the University of Oxford, says, “This survey is a valuable contribution to exploring what people in Britain today think about church, why people attend and crucially, what is most likely to encourage people to make a connection with church.”

Matthew Frost, Chief Executive of Tearfund, says “What is clear from this survey is that the UK is holding firmly to the Christian faith. This is a great encouragement to Tearfund - we tackle poverty and injustice in partnership with churches in some of the world’s poorest communities and we could not do it without the volunteers, prayer and money from churches throughout the UK supporting other churches around the world in the fight against poverty.”

Churchgoing in the UK, also reveals that:

22% of Londoners attend church each month
1 million adults attend ethnic minority Christian churches.
48% of adults of black ethnic origin attend church monthly.
Other faiths account for 6% of religious attendance.
66% of the population still have no connection with church

BBC Faith Survey

46% of UK respondents said they have always believed in God.

28% of UK people said they pray regularly. 25% said they never pray.

30% of all atheists polled admitted they prayed sometimes.

(source: ICM / BBC poll January 2004)

The Jesus Film Project

By 2001 individual viewings had reached more than 4 billion.

Campus Crusade estimates 128 million people indicated a decision to place their faith in Jesus Christ after seeing the film.

In 2001 there were 2,885 film teams operating in 106 countries.

(source: Operation World)

Christian Martyrs

The 20th Century saw a record number of people who lost their lives for Christ's sake, an estimated 26,625,000 people in places like China, the Soviet Bloc, Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Uganda.

(source: The World of Figures, David.B.Barrett and F.K.Jansen)

CHINA

The growth of the Church in China since 1977 has no parallels in history. The 1,266,000 Protestant members in 1949 had become 17 million members in 2000 as well as a much larger uncounted, but estimated 45 million house church Christians. Catholics also grew from 3 to 12 million over the same period.

(source: Operation World)

South Korea

The first Protestant church was planted in 1884. By 2000 there were over 60,000 churches. Of the 11 largest congregations in the world 10 are in one city, the capital Seoul. South Korea is the second largest missionary sending nation in the world, behind the USA. (source: Operation World)

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