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Guardian: 44% increase in the number of Muslims in England and Wales

Britain’s Guardian newspaper said Christians are now a minority in both England and Wales, according to the 2021 census, which also showed the cities of Leicester and Birmingham became the first cities in Britain to have a so-called majority minority, which means a majority made up of a group of small minorities.

The newspaper pointed out that the census also revealed a 5.5 million drop in the number of Christians, as well as a 44 per cent increase in the number of Muslims, and this is the first time in the England and Wales census that less more half of the population identify as Christian.

And 34.2% of the population, or about 22.2 million people, said they did not follow a specific religion, which is the second most widespread group after Christians. This means that in the last 20 years the number of people who say they do not follow a religion has increased by 14.8%.

The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, said the census results challenged them “not only to believe that God will build his kingdom on earth, but also to play their part in making Christ known”.

And one of the most striking things about the census results is how different the population is from the country itself, said Andrew Cobson, chief executive of Humanist Britain. There is no country in Europe that has as much religious structure as Great Britain in terms of law and order, and at the same time has this amount of non-religious people.

The Guardian said the decline of religion and the emergence of ethnic minorities who together make up the majority in England and Wales was revealed in data on ethnicity, religion and language for around 60 million people collected in an electronic census conducted on 21 March 2021.

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