One in three Britons who were raised in Christian households lose their faith by adulthood, an eye-opening study has revealed.
The research from the Pew Research Centre, a think-tank that specialises in religious trends, found that about 30 per cent of the British population no longer identifies with the Christian faith they were raised into.
Broken down by denomination, 45 per cent of those raised Protestant and 44 per cent of those raised Catholic are no longer religious. The data lays bare the crisis many churches face – with converts failing to make up the numbers who quit or have died.
Pew’s survey
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