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UK church attendance
According to a recent survey by Tearfund:
- The UK comes in the bottom 4 countries in Europe, in terms of church attendance.
- Two-thirds of those polled had not been to church in the last year, except for baptisms, weddings or funerals - but 53% identified themselves as Christian.
- Nearly three million more people would attend regularly if given the "right invitation". This could be a personal invite, the chance to accompany a relative or friend, or the offer of help during difficult personal circumstances. (3M nationally means around 250,000 adults in Greater Manchester!)
Tearfund's president, Elaine Storkey, told BBC Radio Five Live that a lot of people would be unsure what to expect if they did visit. "The church for a lot of people is a very strange place these days. They're not familiar with what's going on inside the building, with the form of service, with the way people gather, with what they say, how they pray. "So the first thing they have really got to wake up to is that there is this big cultural gap between churched and non-churched."
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