Switzerland: A New Record of People Leaving the Church in 2021

More than 34,000 Swiss Catholics left the Church in 2021. This is the sad observation of the Swiss Institute of Pastoral Sociology (SPI), which counts 2,500 more people leaving than in 2019. According to the report, Switzerland had less than 3 million Catholics – 2.96 million – at the end of 2021. The outflow rate was 1.5%.

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