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December 2017
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Christmas – Social media outreach
More than a million people are being reached every month by Christian churches on social media, figures published by the Church of England (CofE) have suggested. A year after the CofE adopted a new digital approach, with videos, podcasts, blogs and images, including prayers, across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin, these messages are reaching an online audience of 1.2 million a month. During Christmas 2016, some 1.5 million people were reached through the Church’s #JoyToTheWorld campaign featuring short films. A further 2.5 million were reached during Lent, the season before Easter, through the #LiveLent project. However, according to the CofE’s Mission Statistics, the average Sunday...
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