Ireland’s New Faithful
March 04, 2010 · Trendbytes ·
During the middle ages, Ireland was known as the ‘Island of Saints and Scholars’ and religion was held in high esteem until Church scandals began to emerge in the 1990s and mass attendance dropped severely. In the last census of 2006, Roman Catholics had dropped to 87% of the population and religious practices now include other Christian religions, Methodist, Buddhists, Hindus, Bahais and for people of the Islamic and Jewish faiths.