[Crimson Dynamo]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...UK-faiths.html


For those who just look at the church attendance figures of the main UK Christian communities as a faith barometer.


..The report suggests that the arrival of large numbers of immigrants will potentially challenge the trend of secularisation in the UK as they tend to be more religiously observant...

..According to the report, the past decade has seen a net increase of 275,000 in the number of Muslims who were born in Pakistan or Bangladesh but are now living in Britain - the equivalent to twice the population of Oxford...

..Catholicism has been boosted by the arrival of almost 600,000 immigrants from Poland..

..."In Lewisham, there are 65 Pentecostal churches serving the Nigerian community, and others serving the Congolese, Ghanaian and Ivorian communities."...