The significant number of evangelical Catholics in Northern Ireland stands out in a recent survey conducted for the Evangelical Alliance in Northern Ireland (EANI), with 38 per cent of practising Catholics describing themselves as such.
The survey by Savanta ComRes represents the most comprehensive survey of religious identification, practice and viewpoints across Northern Ireland in two decades, notes national broadcaster RTÉ.
The survey also “confirmed Northern Ireland’s unusually high levels of religious practice” compared to the Republic of Ireland.
The results are surprising given that evangelicalism in Northern Ireland came to be associated with Protestantism, especially given the late preacher-politician Rev Ian Paisley casting “ a long shadow over this island’s popular imagination as the embodiment of evangelicalism in Northern Ireland”, RTÉ says.
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