Dr Savage is correct. Europe is almost devoid of church attendance by middle aged and young people; it seems that only the elderly attend anymore.
A few years ago, before I sold my int’l company, my key staff and I would travel to the major capitals, and then visit smaller towns and villages, since I had an architectural fascination with 16th, 17th & 18th century churches and related structures. They were nearly empty on Sunday and weekdays, and the clergy decried the precipitous drop in attendance and tithing over the past 30-50 years.
I purchased three abandoned structures in Germany, four in Italy, and one in Switzerland, in the 90s, and have rehabilitated them into B&Bs - the last one in 2004 - to keep them from being taken over/being defiled by islamists and turned into mosques/terror HQs.
I would gladly see them returned back into places of worship
and would re-sell them to an active congregation for $1(US), if they would agree to such a “covenant of restoration”.
“If”; what a conditional term... eh?