I’m an ex-bishop – this is surprising way UK could retain its Christian identity | UK | News
Discussions about migration have dominated the news this summer. The boats of illegal immigrants continue to come to the shore, a combination of policy stuttering of the government is moving forward and discussing the anger of migration in our national life. Usually a case in which immigration destroys the Christian character of our nation. Argument is the claim that Britain is a Christian country established in Christian values with our laws, political system and democracy.
He tells them that he gradually eroded with mass migration to the country. Tommy Robinson’s last ‘unite kingdom’ rally, all of them in the context of an anti -immigration mood in general, who carried the crosses and hymns. Of course, the decline in the church in England is not news. From the middle of the 19th century to the 1950s, a stable but slow decline has become a faster decline in both the church and wider belief since the 1960s. Is migration accused for this?
The truth is that most of the immigrants coming to these shores bring religion, many of them bring a vibrant Christian belief. Between 1991 and 2001, only 400,000 Christians emigrated to England.
In the next decade, the figure rose to 1.2 million and then rose to approximately 2 million between 2011 and 2021. Most of them came from Eastern Europe, at the same time from African countries and the Indian sub -continent.
For example, many of them live in about 270,000 Nigerian UK, many of which have a strong, energetic Christian faith. London and other cities are often full of Christian communities, Africa or Asia-Hiithage, which meets in the afternoons of Sunday afternoons in cinemas, warehouses, shops or traditional church buildings.
Almost half of the Christians in London are not white, and one of the five church players in the United Kingdom comes from an ethnic minority. Artists such as footballers such as Bukayo Saka and Marc Guéhi, politicians such as Stomy or David Lammy mentioned the deep effect of hereditary but deep personal Christian belief on their lives.
The loss of belief in contemporary Britain was primarily among white people. In 2021, only 49% of the White British were described as Christians in 2001 from 82%. My Neslim – Growing in the 1960s and 70s – those who lost their beliefs and lead to the erosion of the role of Christianity to their children, leading to erosion of Christianity in public life.
On the other hand, many immigrant beliefs, especially Christianity, live and grow from countries such as Nigeria, bring to England. Recent research from the Bible society suggested that almost half of young people went to at least half of the monthly church – much higher than the White British colleagues.
Migration is complex. And, of course, not the only Christians who migrated to England. This is not a matter of ‘or’ against ‘whether you are. England must be a pleasant place for those who escaped from hunger and war elsewhere.
We must be careful about who has the right to enter. Nevertheless, if the British will protect the Christian character in any sense, he needs a strong and confident Christian church. And the key to it is not less, in more immigration – not less.
