{"id":45722,"date":"2017-03-06T21:46:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=45722"},"modified":"2017-03-06T21:46:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:16:06","slug":"hindus-double-numbers-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=45722","title":{"rendered":"Hindus to double their numbers in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hindus will rise to 2.7% of Australia\u2019s population, thus more than doubling their numbers as compared to 2011 Census at 1.3%, when the 2016 Census results begin pouring in starting <span data-term=\"goog_1850039571\">June 27<\/span>; according to a prediction of demographics consultancy \u201c.id the population experts\u201d based in Collingwood (Victoria, Australia).<br \/>\nPeople with \u201cNo Religion\u201d will rise to 29%, thus overtaking Catholics as Australia\u2019s largest single religious group. Islam will rise from 2.2% to 2.6% of Australia\u2019s population, but Christianity overall will fall from 61.1% to 54.8% of the total population. Despite calls not to do so, around 52,000 people will still put their religion as some variant of \u201cJedi\u201d, predict \u201c.id the population experts\u201d.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, congratulated the Hindu community in Australia for continuing with the traditional values of hard work, higher morals, stress on education, sanctity of marriage, etc., amidst so many distractions.<br \/>\nRajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, advised Hindus to focus on inner search, stay pure, explore the vast wisdom of scriptures, make spirituality more attractive to youth and children, stay away from the greed, and always keep God in your life.<br \/>\nHinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about one billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal.<br \/>\nIvan Motley and Janet Coombs are the Founder and General Manager respectively of \u201c.id the population experts\u201d, which claims to be \u201cthe largest team of demographic specialists in Australia and New Zealand\u201d and whose tagline is \u201cmake informed decisions\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindus will rise to 2.7% of Australia\u2019s population, thus more than doubling their numbers as compared to 2011 Census at 1.3%, when the 2016 Census results begin pouring in starting June 27; according to a prediction of demographics consultancy \u201c.id the population experts\u201d based in Collingwood (Victoria, Australia). People with \u201cNo Religion\u201d will rise to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}