About a quarter (25.4%) of U.S. adults identify with evangelical Protestantism, according to Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study. The evangelical Protestant share of the population has dipped slightly in recent years (from 26.3% in 2007 to 25.4% in 2014), but more slowly than the mainline Protestant and Catholic populations. …
Data is taken from the The Center for the Study of Global Christianity. Key Points As of 2017, the world Protestant population stood at 560 million (Anglicans are included with Protestants in this analysis). Despite Europe being the birthplace of Protestantism, it is expected that by 2050, less than 10%…
The Percentage of the British population attending church has fallen from 11.8% in 1980 to 5.0% in 2015. England has the lowest percentage of the population attending church in 2015 (4.7%), just below Wales at 4.8%. In Scotland, the equivalent figure is 8.9% Source: BRIN
» Enlarge image Among persons affiliated with a religion, a belief in Hell is lowest among Jews, with a figure of 22% (Just 40% of Jewish persons surveyed believe in Heaven). The equivalent figures for Catholics are 63% (85%) and Mainline Protestants 60% (80%). » Click column header to sort. Data is taken from the…
A 2008 survey of Mainline Protestant clergy conducted by Public Religion Research found that: 33% believed same sex couples should be allowed to marry, against 35% who believed there should be no legal recognition of such relationships. The remainder believed that civil unions were appropriate. 13% believed Abortion should be…