UK Church Attendance decline has been slowed by the influx of Christians from Africa and Europe finds The 2005 English Church Census. From '98 to '05, 500,000 people stopped going to a Christian church on Sunday, yet black-led Pentecostal churches in immigrant communities gained about 100,000 worshippers since '98. Blacks now make up 10% of all Sunday churchgoers, while other non-white groups add another 7%. Yet, while 1,000 new people are joining a church each week, 2,500 are leaving. Just 6.3% go to church on an average Sunday, vs. 7.5% in ?98. 29% of UK churchgoers are 65 or over vs. just 16% of the population and 9% of churches have no one under the age of 11 in attendance. Why do you think this is the case?