When Atheists told them that religion is on the decline, they claimed that it was a lie from the lips of the enemy...................................................NOW THAT THIS REPORT WAS CONDUCTED BY THEIR FELLOW CHURCH MEMBERS, I WONDER WHAT THEY WILL SAY?


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ANGLICANS in both Canada and England have suggested that there remains hope for the Anglican Church of Canada after its General Synod was told that there would be no members, church­goers, or givers by 2040, on pro­­jec­­tions from dio­cesan data.
The author of the statistics re­­port for the Canadian Church’s House of Bishops, the Revd Dr Neil Elliot, suggested that “we need to plan for a Church which is going to change substantially in the years 2020 to 2040.”

Dr Elliot’s report, presented to the Council of General Synod this month, draws on five different data sets: historical church statistics from 1961 to 2001; Anglican Jour­­nal circulation data; and three sets of data from his own survey of the dioceses from 2001 and 2017.

[/b]“There is no sign of any stabil­isation in our numbers: if anything, the decline is increasing,”[b] he wrote.
Three sets of statistics — num­bers on rolls, average Sunday attend­ance, and number of house­holds donating — showed the same decline. In 1961, members had made up seven per cent of the popu­lation; by 2017, this had fallen to one per cent. International com­parisons suggested that the decline was faster than in any other An­­glican Church. [/b]For the Episcopal Church in the United States, the projected “zero-member date” was about 2050, he told the Synod[b] .....................................................


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