Weddings-by-Church, nearly in extinction – Perfil.com

weddings by Church disappear little by little in Spain. In the first half of 2016 took place a total of 68.560 religious ceremonies, according to the National Institute of Statistics.

this Is the historical minimum. Weddings by the Church are only the majority in a Spanish province, Jaén, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, located to the south of the country.

The figures they drew attention to given that only 17 years ago, 75% of the marriages took place in the churches.

The sociologist Alfonso Pérez-Agote, author of the book, 'religious Change in Spain: the ups and downs of secularization', examined the two main reasons for this decline are the economic crisis and the changes that occurred in society and in the family configuration.

In Spain, the unemployment rate among the population under 30 years of age reached 34.4%. "The transition from youth to adulthood has lagged behind the 25 to 30 years. Now when you have a boyfriend don’t have a job, or you go back to your parents ‘ house or attending a master’s degree because there is no employment," she said in statements reproduced by the newspaper The Country.

"There are young people who say that the sacrament for the whole life is the mortgage, not

marriage," said Pérez-Agote and added: "The young people of today, are the sons of those disinterested in religion, when they think of getting married do not think of the Church, is something very distant to them."