Religion continues to fade in Switzerland

Each generation, it seems, is a little less religious than the one before. New figures from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) suggest that although parents remain the main conduit of religious affiliation, the transmission is weakening over time. © Leo Malsam | Dreamstime.com Christmas services still draw respectable crowds. For much of the rest of the year, however, pews are increasingly empty. Church attendance in Switzerland has been declining for decades, part of a broader process of secularisation that is now entering a more visible phase. Religion, like many social traits, is shaped by one’s surroundings. What has changed is t…