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  • Christian pupils outnumbered by Muslims even in Roman Catholic schools

    08/16/2009 9:50:16 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 16 replies · 1,218+ views
    telegraph.co.uk ^ | August 14, 2009 | Martin Beckford
    Christian pupils are now outnumbered by Muslims at Roman Catholic schools in some parts of England A survey has found 24 Catholic primary schools in the North West and the Midlands teach a minority of churchgoing children. Fewer than one in 10 children are Catholic at one school in Birmingham, while the Church is ending its involvement with a similar establishment in Blackburn. Overall, Catholics make up 73.34 per cent of pupils at the 2,300 schools linked to the denomination across England and Wales. But The Tablet, a weekly Catholic magazine, found that in Oldham, Blackburn, Wolverhampton and Birmingham there...