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By ( articles ) | Sep 26, 2006

Liberals congratulate themselves on success. From the (UK) Church Times.

FIRST, the bad news from the 2005 English Church Census, published on Monday. Churchgoing in England continues to decline at a rate of 2.3 per cent a year.

But there is good news, too. The rate of decline has slowed from that of the 1990s, when numbers fell by 2.7 per cent a year.

The article is headlined "Faint signs of hope."