{"id":21211,"date":"2014-04-01T20:33:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T01:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21211"},"modified":"2014-04-01T20:33:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T01:33:20","slug":"church-of-england-decline-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-decline-halted\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of England decline halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And that is the reason the CofE is considering blessing same-sex unions and allowing clergy in a same sex relationship to marry: to get it going again.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2014\/04\/church-decline-has-halted,-say-anglican-statisticians.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Official statistics issued recently suggest that attendance at C of E churches may have levelled out after decades of decline.<\/p>\n<p>A report by the Archbishops&#8217; Council,\u00a0<em>Statistics for Mission 2012<\/em>, released on Friday 21 March suggests that, on an average Sunday in 2012 (the latest year with available data) about 859,000 people attended a C of E church. This compares with 901,000 in 2003.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that is the reason the CofE is considering blessing same-sex unions and allowing clergy in a same sex relationship to marry: to get it going again. From here: Official statistics issued recently suggest that attendance at C of E &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-decline-halted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[2089,1724],"class_list":["post-21211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-church-of-england","tag-same-sex-marrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}