Canada: Fewer than 1 out of 2 weddings in Quebec are religious
For the first time, fewer than one wedding out of two are religious in Quebec (48.8%), according to the numbers assembled by Quebec statistics institution (ISQ) and published by Quebec media group Radio Ville-Marie (RVM) on December 18th. In 2012, 51.6% of weddings were still celebrated in church, 70.6% in 2002 and 97.8% in 1969. The ISQ emphasized that the 20 percentage points of difference between 2002 and 2013 corresponds with the coming into force of a law that authorizes friends or relatives to carry out a wedding. Today 40% of civil weddings follow this procedure while the rest are registered by a court clerk or notary.
An initial drop in religious ceremonies followed the authorization of civil ceremonies in the late 1960s.
(Sources: kipa-apic.ch – Radio Ville-Marie – DICI no. 308, dated January16, 2015)
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