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November 17 - Anglicans Fear UK Church Faces Extinction

Article: Misc. 
 

Anglican leaders in the United Kingdom are concerned about the future of the Church of England. They say the next 20 years will decide if it survives or dies out.

At St. Swithuns Church in Retford, services have dropped to a maximum of 20 people, most of them retired.

St. Swithuns Team Rector Rev. Tony Walker said the biggest challenge is that people no longer feel a commitment to be a regular part of the church community.

Church members are unhappy seeing their congregation reduced to such low numbers. "I remember as a young boy this church was absolutely packed with people where as now there's only a handful. So that obviously makes you a little bit sad," one congregant said.

Anglican leaders have warned that without new members, the Church of England will cease to exist in 20 years as the current generation of elderly worshippers dies.

The warnings follow an internal report calling for an urgent national recruitment drive to attract more members. During the past 40 years, the number of adult churchgoers has halved, while the number of children attending regular worship has declined by 80 percent.

Many believe the key reason for the decline is an increasingly secular society that sees the Church as irrelevant, particularly to young people.

"I think they've got to open up to the 21st century, because to attract more people," one U.K resident said. "You've got to have a kind of worship that people will enjoy and want to come to."
 

 
 

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