UNITED KINGDOM, March 3, 2012 (Times of India): Research by the House of Commons Library found that while Christianity has declined, other religions have seen sharp increases. Christianity is losing more than half a million believers every year, while the count of atheists and agnostics is going up by almost 750,000 annually, the Daily Mail reported. UK Hindus grew by 43 percent in the last six years.
In that period, the number of Muslims has surged by 37 percent and Buddhists by 74 percent. In 2010 there were around 41.1 million Christians in Britain – down 7.6 percent over the past six years. The number of Sikhs and Jewish believers fell slightly, according to the Mail Friday.
On Friday, the group’s chairman, former Tory justice minister Gary Streeter, warned that Christian believers were having their faith “steamrollered” by a “secular and hostile state”.