{"id":259879,"date":"2016-10-19T20:14:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=259879"},"modified":"2016-10-19T20:14:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:14:22","slug":"only-2-of-englands-population-go-to-church-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=259879","title":{"rendered":"Only 2% of England’s population go to church – Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canon laws, which have been in the books for centuries, require churches to hold services every Sunday. In the morning and in the evening.<\/p>\n

But there’s a hitch.\u00a0Attendance is declining. And there are just way too many churches.<\/p>\n

So the Church of England is now thinking of scrapping that law — particularly because many parishes are failing to hold services at all of their churches and consequently, are breaking the law.<\/p>\n

“For decades, ever since we started having parishes with more than one church, it has been humanly impossible for the clergy to get around to all of them every Sunday,” a Church of England spokesman told CNN. “[So] according to canon law those clergy and those parishes are breaking canon law and it would be impossible for them not to.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this year the Church published its 2014 attendance statistics<\/a><\/strong><\/span> which revealed there was a 12% decline in attendance over the decade and that only 2% of England’s population attended services.<\/p>\n

But the Church of England’s spokesman denied the changes were to do with declining number in church attendances and said it was “purely to do with normalizing the current situation.”<\/p>\n

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Source: CNN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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