LONDON — A major new survey by Britain’s Office for National Statistics shows that despite growing immigration and competition from other faiths, nearly seven in 10 Britons still describe themselves as Christian.
That doesn’t mean, however, that U.K. Christians actually attend church. In a nation of 60 million people, weekly attendance at Church of England parishes had slumped to 1.14 million as recently as 2008.
Nevertheless the new study by the Office for National Statistics showed 69 percent of men and women in Britain professed to be Christian, even if they never or rarely saw the inside of a church.
The survey showed that 4.4 percent of respondents identified themselves as Muslim, 1.3 percent as Hindu, 0.7 percent as Sikh, 0.4 percent as Buddhist, 0.4 percent as Jewish and 1.1 percent as followers of other religions.
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