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St Gerard’s Church in Wellington will close after it failed to raise enough funds to strengthen the building, which is vulnerable to earthquake damage.
After 113 years, St Gerard s Church – a familiar sight on Wellington s skyline – will hold its final mass at the end of May as it closes over “safety concerns” but the fate of the buildings remains unclear. Sitting above Oriental Bay, the St Gerard’s monastery and church buildings are heritage-listed. Owned by the International Catholic Programme of Evangelisation (ICPE), the buildings are rated at 25 per cent of the New Zealand building standard. Anything below 34 per cent is considered earthquake-prone.
By DIANA CHANDLER
Baptist Press Apr 4, 2021 Chadd Balfour
WASHINGTON (BP) â Church members are in the minority for the first time in at least eight decades, with just 47 percent identifying with a congregation, Gallup said in a poll released Monday The number was 70 percent in 1999.
A growth in adults with no religious preference and lower rates of church membership among people who do have a religion are major trends driving the decline, Gallup said.
Younger generations hold the highest rates of those with no religious preference, including 31 percent of millennials and 33 percent of adult Generation Z (those born in the mid-1990s to the early 2010s). Concurrently, among those who do affiliate with a religion, declines since the turn of the century were highest among younger generations, with the share of millennials declining from 63 percent in 2000 to 50 percent in 2020.