When looking at immigration from west African countries such as Nigeria and Ghana, many of those people are religious Christians. “Immigration has a part to play, but I think it's very much over exaggerated,” says Dr James Williams, Senior Lecturer in Science Education at the University of Sussex says. In third place was Islam, which has grown from 4.9 per cent of the population to 6.5 per cent in the last decade. People who identified with no religion were the second biggest category, rising from 25.2 per cent to 37.2 per cent of the population. What’s behind the reduction in self-identifying Christians in England and Wales? How should the country respond to its established faith becoming a minority? And on the other hand, how will the news of dwindling Christianity be used by far-right political thinkers and proponents of the Great Replacement Theory? Where have all the Christians gone? Church of England is the state religion of the UK. It’s a drop of about 5.5 million people but it still remains the largest single defined religion.Ĭhristianity’s new status as a majority minority religion in the country presents a few intriguing questions.
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