Decline of Christianity in the West

Christianity is rapidly falling down in the Western part of the world. See an article in the Wikipedia on this very seriously ongoing trend in the two continents of the world.

In 2018 the Pope lamented the ongoing trend of re-purposing churches, some being used for pizza joints, skate parks, strip clubs and bars.....

France
Christianity has been declining in France steadily since the 1980's. In 2021, a French poll showed that over half of French citizens do not believe in God or consider Christianity to be relevant. People who identified as Catholic declined from 81% in 1986 to 47% in 2020, while the number of people who identified as not religious rose from 16% to 40%. [35] In 2021 around 50% of all French respondents identified as Christians. [36]

Germany
In 2020 around 54% of the German population were Christians among them 51% members of the two large Christian churches. [37] Attendance and membership in both Catholic and Protestant churches in Germany have been declining for several decades. As of 2021, less than half of German citizens belong to a church for the first time in the country's history, around 52.7% of the population were Christians among them 49.7% members of the two large Christian churches. [38] Around 360,000 Catholics left the church in 2021 alone, and about 280,000 people have left Protestant churches. [39]

Hungary
According to some sources Christianity is declining in Hungary . Although a majority of
Hungarians identify as Catholic, only 12% regularly attend church. [40] On the other hand, a series of surveys conducted by Pew Research Center in 2018 found that the share of Christians has remained fairly stable in Hungary (75% say they were raised Christian versus 76% say they are Christian now). [30]

Ireland
Christianity, specifically Catholicism , remains the predominant religion in the Republic of Ireland . In the 2016 census, 85.1% of the population identified as Christian. [41] However, recent social changes, including the lifting of a ban on abortion and the legalizing of same sex marriage, have solidified the growth of liberal thinking in Ireland, particularly within the younger community. An Irish priest, Fr. Kevin Hegarty, asserted in 2018 that the church's authority was undermined by the papal encyclical , called
Humanae Vitae , that established the Church's opposition to contraception . He reported that there is only one priest under the age of 40 in the entire diocese of Killala ; only two priests have been ordained over the last 17 years, and there have been no candidates for the priesthood since 2013. Hegarty blames this decline on the Church's positions on female ordination, contraception and sexuality. [42] A continued requirement for children entering Irish Catholic owned schools to be baptized keeps the overall level of baptisms high, though the number of individuals practicing a faith or attending church is decreasing. [ citation needed ]

Netherlands
The Netherlands has tolerated greater religious diversity among Christian sects than Scandinavian countries where "automatism" (default registration in the Lutheran Church by birth) has been the norm. Non-denominationalism increased in the Netherlands during the 19th century. This process slowed between the 1930s and 1960s, after which non-denominational affiliation increased at very high levels. The Church's ministry to the poor was not needed in the modern Netherlands that had developed systems of government welfare and secular charity. The declining influence of religious institutions in public life allowed great religious, philosophical and theological pluralism in the private and individual spheres of Dutch society. [43][44] During the 1960s and 1970s,
pillarization began to weaken and the population became less religious. In 1971, 39% of the Dutch population were members of the Roman Catholic Church; by 2014, their share of the population had dropped to 23.3% (church-reported KASKI data), or to 23.7% (large sample survey by Statistics Netherlands in 2015). The proportion of adherents of Calvinism and Methodism declined in the same period from 31% to 15.5%. [45]

With only 49.9% of the Dutch currently (2015) adhering to a religion, the Netherlands is one of the least religious countries of the European Union , after the Czech Republic and Estonia . By the 1980s, religion had largely lost its influence on Dutch politics and as a result Dutch policy on women's rights , abortion, euthanasia ,
homosexuality and prostitution became very liberal in the 1980s and 1990s. As a result of the decline, the two major strands of Calvinism, the
Dutch Reformed Church and the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands , together with a small Lutheran group, began to cooperate as the
Samen op weg Kerken ("Together on the road churches". In 2004 these groups merged to form the Protestant Church in the Netherlands .[ citation needed ]

In 2015, 63% of Dutch people think that religion does more harm than good. [46] A quarter of the population thinks that morality is threatened if no one believes in God, down from 40% in 2006. The number of people reporting that they never pray rose from 36% in 2006 to 53% in 2016. [citation needed ]

Italy and Spain
Adherence to established forms of church-related worship is in rapid decline in Italy and Spain, and Church authority on social, moral and ethical issues has been reduced. [13] Daily church attendance has declined but Catholicism still remains the predominant religion in Spain and Italy. According to the Spanish Center for Sociological Research, 60.2% of Spaniards self-identified as Catholic in 2020, [47] According to a 2014 Pew Research Center study, 83.3% of Italy's residents are Christians. [48]

United Kingdom
Attendance at Anglican churches had begun to decline in the United Kingdom by the Edwardian era, with both membership in mainstream churches and attendance at Sunday schools declining. [49] Infant baptism declined after
World War II . In 2014, Archbishop of Canterbury
Rowan Williams stated that the UK had become a "post-Christian country". That same year, only 4.3% of the population participated in a Church of England (C of E) Christmas service. [50] Nevertheless, around 60% of all respondents identified as Christians in the 2011 Census. [51]
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The Roman Catholic Church has witnessed the highest retention rate among all Christian denominations. In 2015, 9.2% of the UK population was Catholic. According to scholar Stephen Bullivant, based on the British Social Attitudes Survey and European Social Survey , the decline in Anglicanism has slowed thanks to "the return of patriotism and pride in Christianity", and the number of followers of the Anglican Church has increased slightly by 2017. [53] In 2017, report commissioned by the Christian group Hope Revolution indicated that 21% of British youth identified as "active followers of Jesus". [54]

According to the 2018 British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA), 33% of over-75s identified as C of E, while only 1% of people aged 18-24 did so. The report stated that "Britain is becoming more secular not because adults are losing their religion but because older people with an attachment to the C of E and other Christian denominations are gradually being replaced in the population by younger unaffiliated people." [55] Furthermore, it has been reported that fewer than half of Britons are expected to identify as Christian in the 2021 census .[56]

Oceania

Australia
In the 2016 Census, just over 30% declared that they had no religion (Up from 22% in 2011), while 52.2% of the Australian population declared some variety of Christianity (down from 61.1% in 2011). [57] Also, in a 2017 survey of teenage Australians aged 13–18, 52% declared that they had no religion, compared with 38% Christian, 3% Muslim, 2% Buddhist and 1% Hindu. [58] On the other hand, 2016 Census, indicate a steady growth in the number of
Pentecostal church in Australia, [59][57][60] most of the followers of the Pentecostal churches are young as the average age among them is 25. [59][61]

North America

Canada
In 2021, Statistics Canada found that only 68% of Canadians 15 years and older reported having a religious affiliation, marking the first time the number had dipped below 70% since StatCan began tracking religious affiliation in 1985. [62] Christianity remains the largest religion in Canada , in the 2016 census, 63.2% of the population identified as Christians. [63]
In Quebec, since the Quiet Revolution , over 500 churches (20% of the total) have been closed or converted for non-worship based uses. [64] In the 1950s, 95% of Quebec's population went to Mass; in the present day, that number is closer to 5%. [65] Despite the decline in church attendance , Christianity remains the predominant religion in Quebec, where 82.2% of people were Christians, according to 2011 National Household Survey. [63]

United States
Christianity, the largest religion in the United States, was 73.7% of the total population in 2016. [66] The 2014 Religious Landscape Study finds a large majority (87.6%) of those who were raised as Christians in the United States still identify as such, while the rest who no longer identify as Christians mostly identify as religiously unaffiliated. [67] In 2019, 65% of American adults described themselves as Christians. [68] In 2020, 47% of Americans said that they belonged to a church, down from 70% in 1999. [69] Nationwide Catholic membership increased between 2000 and 2017, but the number of churches declined by nearly 11% and by 2019, the number of Catholics decreased by 2 million people. [70] Since 1970, weekly church

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See some closed or abandoned churches in Italy in the pictures bellow. There are at least 1,000 such abandoned churches in Italy alone.

America, a country with the largest Christian population in the world is rapidly loosing it's Christian identity.

United States

In 2019, 65% of American adults described themselves as Christians. [68] In 2020, 47% of Americans said that they belonged to a church, down from 70% in 1999. Between 2000 and 2017, the number of Catholic churches declined by nearly 11% and by 2019, the number of Catholics decreased by 2 million people. [70] Since 1970, weekly church attendance among Catholics has dropped from 55% to 20%, the number of priests declined from 59,000 to 35,000 and the number of people who have left Catholicism has increased from under 2 million in 1975 to over 30 million today. [71] In 2022, there were fewer than 42,000 nuns left in the United States, a 76% decline over 50 years, with fewer than 1% of nuns under age 40. [72] The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) lost about 30% of its congregation and closed 12.5% of its churches: the United Methodist church lost 16.7% of its congregation and 10.2% of its churches. The Presbyterian Church has had the sharpest decline in church membership: between 2000 and 2015 they lost over 40% of their congregation and 15.4% of their churches. [73] Infant baptism has also decreased; nationwide, Catholic baptisms are down by nearly 34%, and ELCA baptisms by over 40%. [73] The Southern Baptist Convention has experienced decline: between 2006 and 2020, they lost 2.3 million members, representing a 14% decrease in membership during that period. [74][75] The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod reported in 2021 that the denomination has been declining in membership. [76] In 2020, the church reported approximately 1.8 million total baptized members, a decline from its peak in 1971 when it reported nearly 2.8 million total baptized members. [77][78]
In 2018, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that churches in Minnesota were being closed due to dwindling attendance. [73] Mainline protestant churches in Minnesota have seen the sharpest declines in their congregations. [citation needed ] The Catholic Church has closed 81 churches between 2000 and 2017; the Archdiocese of Minneapolis closed 21 churches in 2010 and has had to merge dozens more. In roughly the same time frame, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Minnesota has lost 200,000 members and closed 150 churches. The United Methodist Church , which is Minnesota's second-largest Protestant denomination, has closed 65 of its churches. In the early 1990s, the Archdiocese of Chicago closed almost 40 Catholic churches and schools. [79] In 2016, increasing costs and priest shortages fueled plans to close or consolidate up to 100 Chicago Catholic churches and schools in the next 15 years. [80] The Archdiocese of New York announced in 2014 that nearly 1/3 of their churches were merging and closing. [81] The Archdiocese of Boston closed more than 70 churches between 2004 and 2019. [82] In 2021, the Archbishop of Cincinnati announced that 70% of Catholic churches would be closing there in the next several years. [83] Nationally, Catholic school enrollment has declined by more than 430,000 students since 2008. [84]

Moderate and liberal denominations in the United States have been closing down churches at a rate three or four times greater than the number of new churches being consecrated .[85]. It has been asserted that of the approximately 3,700 churches that close each year, up to half are unsuccessful new churches. [86] The more conservative evangelical denominations have also declined, representing 23% of population in 2006 and 14% in 2020 according to the Public Religion Research Institute .[87]

The Orthodox Church (pre-denominational) and the denominations like Jehovah's Witnesses, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
Pentecostals had slight increases in membership between 2003 and 2018 but the number of adults in the United States who do not report any religious affiliation nearly doubled over that period. [88] However, in 2021, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America , the largest Orthodox church in the United States, reported membership losses during a 40-year period. [89] In 2015, Pew Research reported a 38% decline in membership from 2009 to 2014 among the Orthodox Churches in the United States. [90]

The Public Religion Research Institute 's 2020 Census of American Religion showed that the overall decline of white Christians in America had slowed, stabilizing at around 44% of the population, [91][92] compare to 42% in 2019. [5] The Public Religion Research Institute's 2020 Census of American Religion showed that 70% of Americans identify as Christian. [5] It also showed that, contrary to expectations, white evangelicals had continued to decline and that they were now outnumbered by white mainline protestants. [92][93][94]

Source: Wikipedia article.

Every year more than 4,700 churches are abandoned in America mostly due to dwindled attendance. It is also stated that more than half of the remaining American churches has never had one single new member to their congregation.

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