Religious attendance continues to fall.

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Pretty much across the board. What I don't see is stats of online attendance since the great pause (pandemic quarantine)

Prior to the revolution in the US church attendance was required in many colonies, citizens had to come into town once a month to attend services.

In the early20th century we saw a steady decline in Christian services....as I see it the eucharist requirement is golding catholic numbers up.
 
wil said:
Pretty much across the board. What I don't see is stats of online attendance since the great pause (pandemic quarantine)

Prior to the revolution in the US church attendance was required in many colonies, citizens had to come into town once a month to attend services.

In the early20th century we saw a steady decline in Christian services....as I see it the eucharist requirement is golding catholic numbers up.
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I think the numbers may be a bit off. I think a lot of people are observing church via various media sources since the pandemic.
 
Things are of course different from one community to the other, from one religion to the other, and from one state to the other.

I never used media for prayer or for Juma (the main prayer on Friday, maybe comparable to Christian services on Sunday or Jewish on Saturday). I don't see any value in it, and I have not even searched or tried to use the internet for a virtual assembly. I can only go for Juma because I'm living quite far off, so that it takes me a bit less than an hour from work, and even more from home to get there.
We only had strict interdictions for one month, then we met with a protection in the Corona time.
We had quite a growth of members in 2021/22 but not for a good reason, but because of the Taliban. Open minded Muslim fled and joined our open minded community.
For me, the reason to go to the common prayer is the community, the exchange, meeting old friends and new people to share in religion and on the personal level. Why should one attend a virtual assembly and drink his tea alone?
 
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