Friday, December 10, 2004
Britons are religious but privately
Almost three in four people in Britain believe in God - but less than a quarter regularly attend religious services, a new poll has found.
A survey of more than 21,000 people in 21 countries found that 72 per cent of Britons believed in a supernatural being or "creator".
However, only 69 per cent associated themselves with a particular faith, of which 40 per cent said they were Protestant, 29 per cent Catholic and four per cent Muslim.
Three quarters of women identified with a particular religion compared to only 63 per cent of men, the research for the Wall Street Journal Europe found.
A fifth of those who considered themselves aligned to a particular faith "almost never" went to religious services, while a further fifth went less than four times a year.
Only a quarter attended once a week or more, compared to 43 per cent in the US and 72 per cent in Turkey.
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