10 January 2014

One in ten babies in England is a Muslim: Those practising the religion 'could soon outnumber actively worshipping Christians'

One in ten children under the age of four is now Muslim in England and Wales, the latest statistics show.

In the under-fives age group there are nearly twice as many people identified as Muslim as in the general population, census data reveals.

The figures suggest a change in the UK’s younger generation of worshippers as less than 0.5 per cent of over 85s in Britain identify as Muslim. [Daily Mail] Read more