{"id":1079,"date":"2017-04-16T06:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T06:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2017-04-16T06:16:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T06:16:38","slug":"sri-lanka-one-of-worlds-most-religious-countries-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-one-of-worlds-most-religious-countries-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka, one of world\u2019s most religious countries: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is one of the most religious countries in the world as 99 percent of Sri Lankans who were questioned in a survey had said they feel religious, the Telegraph reported today.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph UK had utilized the results of three Gallup polls taken in 2008, 2009 and 2015. Each asked respondents whether or not they felt religious; for each country they&#8217;ve included the most recent figures available.<\/p>\n<p>According to the surveys, five countries tie for the title of most religious. In each of Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger and Yemen, 99 per cent of those questioned answered &#8220;yes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Burundi, Djibouti, Mauritania and Somalia saw 98 per cent reply in saying yes to being religious.<\/p>\n<p>The survey results showed faith is important to many southern European countries too, with 74 per cent of Italians and 71 per cent of Greek claiming to feel religious.<\/p>\n<p>Poland stands out against the rest of Europe, with 86 per cent answering &#8220;yes&#8221; to the poll; Paraguay would appear to be South America&#8217;s most religious country.<\/p>\n<p>Around three in 10 Britons feel religious, it suggests, compared to 56 per cent of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The least religious country was China with only seven per cent, followed by Japan, Estonia, Sweden, Norway and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is one of the most religious countries in the world as 99&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}