{"id":681641,"date":"2026-01-08T06:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/681641\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:45:12","slug":"new-report-notes-demographic-and-religious-crisis-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/681641\/","title":{"rendered":"New report notes demographic and religious crisis in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecatholicthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/musulmaniRussia.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300796 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/musulmaniRussia-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><\/a>Patriarch Kirill of Moscow asserts that Russia \u201cis laying the foundations for a new civilisation, where science, technology, new technologies, high standards of living, education, art and culture are combined with sincere and profound faith,\u201d but the Russian Academy of National Economy (Rosstat) warns of a significant, nationwide decline in both population and Christianity. Population decline over the last fifteen years amounts to 4.4 million fewer citizens, and the rate of this decline is such that Rosstat decided to keep the data secret throughout 2025 to avoid causing alarm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asianews.it\/news-en\/Demographic-crisis-and-religious-denominations-in-Russia-64585.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And such increases as have been seen have come mostly from Muslim communities.<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patriarch Kirill of Moscow asserts that Russia \u201cis laying the foundations for a new civilisation, where science, technology,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-681641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115858133834663467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}