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RELIGIONS: 86% OF ITALIANS DO NOT HAVE BASIC NOTION ON BIBLE
(ANSAmed) - VATICAN CITY, APRIL 28 - Only 14% of the Italians polled by Eurisko for the Catholic Bible Federation managed to answer to questions based on the Bible. According to the research presented this morning in the Vatican City, the things do not go very well in the other examined countries, only 17% have full marks in the United States, 17% in the United Kingdom, 15% in Germany, 11% in France, 8% in Spain. The state leading the classification is Poland with 20%, and the last state is Russia with 7%. The questions are the following: Are the Gospels part of the Bible? Did Jesus write books on the Bible? Who between Moses and Paul was a character of the Old Testament? Who wrote a Gospel between Luke, John, Paul and Peter? Italy is within the last countries as regards reading of the Bible in general, if 75% of the Americans affirm they have read a passage of the Bible in the last 12 months, only 27% of the Italians say the same, the percentage decreases to 21% in France and to 20% in Spain. The Italians, 88% of whom proclaim themselves as Catholics, do not differ as regards the participation in the religious rites, only 32% go to church painstakingly, compared to 55% of the Polish and 45% of the Americans.