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Indeed there has. Have you noticed the former Prime Minister of England, Tony Blair, joined a new church and became a devout Roman Catholic upon retiring from political office? That would have been unthinkable a decade ago. The Catholic ranks in England have swelled thanks to polish and Irish immigration, and the Evangelical protestants have increased in large numbers too. The total percentage of Catholics in England is still only 4.5% of the population (a century ago it was half that), thanks to centuries of oppression by the "official" religion of the country (Anglicanism), yet England has almost 900,000 Catholics who are weekly church goers. For the first time in 500 years, that's more churchgoers than the "official" religion of the country, even though their total "membership" of people who consider themselves Anglican in the UK is 25 million people, pretty pathetic turnout on Sunday considering them outnumber Catholics 6-to-1.

There has been a rise in the proportion of ‘charismatic’ evangelicals from 38% in 1998 to 40% in 2005, nearing the figures of 1989, when charismatic evangelicals constituted 44% of evangelicals.

They's also increased in numbers due to more minorities joining church congregations. The number of non-white evangelical church goers has increased from 208,500 in 1998, to 286,000 in 2005; a proportional rise of 37%. Additionally, non-white evangelicals now constitute 18% of the total number of evangelicals. The highest proportion of non-white churchgoers is found among charismatic evangelicals, where they constitute 31% of the total, closely followed by Catholics, where the proportion is 28%.

Additionally, according to the 2005 English Church Census, 40% of regular churchgoers in England attend evangelical churches – two-fifths of total English churchgoers. The proportion of evangelicals in the churchgoing population has risen from 37% in 1998 to 40% in 2005.Pentecostal churches have seen a 34% rise in regular church attendance since 1998.

In raw numbers, the 3,656 Roman Catholic churches have an average congregation of 244. Of the 2,227 Pentecostal churches, they have an average congregation 129. Of the 1,307 ‘new’ Christian churches, they have an average congregation of 140 people. On the other hand, of the 16,247 Anglican churches in England, they an average congregation size of only 54 people.

In short, Christianity is growing in England, especially when it comes to the number of Catholics and pentecostal evangelical protestants in their country. The numbers are weekly church attendence are on the rise.

It's the "Church of England" -- the "official" Christian church of the country -- where Christianity is dying and their baptized members are Christian in name only.