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.