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Church of England is uniquely related to the Crown in that the Sovereign must be a member of that Church and as Defender of the Faith. The Church is also linked with the State through the House of loads. The church of England is not free to change its form of worship, as laid down in the Book of Common Prayer without the consent of Parliament. 英格兰国教与君主有独特的联系。因为君主作为国教的捍卫者必须是此教会的一员，他在登基时必须承诺维持国教。国教还通过上议院与政府联系。没有议会同意，英格兰教会不可随意改变国教祈祷书中规定的礼拜仪式。 Unestablished churches 非国教教会 There are include: the Anglican Churches(圣公会)，the Free Churches(自由教)，the Roman Catholic Church（罗马天主教）。 英国法律保护公民的宗教观念，任何人都有信某宗教或不信宗教的自由。但是法律还规定所有的学生必须接受宗教教育，参与学校典礼。一般说来，绝大多数英国人信仰上帝及其《圣经》，尽管礼拜仪式和解释圣经的方式多种多样。如果没有大量的志愿者服务队伍，你很难理解英国人的社会生活。志愿者自发组织起来，帮助贫穷及残疾人，孩子们在新年或圣诞给没有孩子的老人邮寄卡片，还为公共项目募集资金。大部分慈善工作由教堂资助，信徒们将其视为自己的义务。他们的宗教观还与民族观紧密相连，英国国旗是“团结的杰克”，背景为蓝色，三个交叉：红交叉代表英格兰的斯坦·乔治，白十字代表苏格兰的斯坦·安得鲁，红十字代表爱尔兰（注，英语的cross与saltire在汉语都是一个意思，在英语则各有代表，所以出现2个红色十字），整个象征着英国的统一。 Among?the?287?million?people,?there?are?over?3,000?religious?denominations?or?groups.?Over?three-fifths?of?all?American?religious?people?are?Protestants.?They?were?spread?fairly?widely?among?the?different?types?of?Protestants.?These?are?—?Baptists,?Methodists,?Presbyterians,?Unitarians,?Quakers?and?the?Salvation?Army.?Besides?the?Protestants,?there?is?a?large?single?religious?group—the?Roman?Catholics.?Now?more?than?one-quarter?of?all?Americans?are?of?Roman?Catholic?faith,?and?the?majority?of?these?are?descendants?of?immigrants?from?Ireland,?Italy?and?Poland.?They?were?concentrated?especially?in?New?York?and?Massachusetts,?and?still?a?very?important?element?of?the?population?in?these?two?states.?The?Orthodox?Church?is?also?an?important?religious?group.?In?this?group?there?are?about?five?million?members.?They?are?mainly?descendants?of?the?people?who?immigrated?from?Russia?or?Greece?or?from?other?Orthodox?parts?of?Eastern?Europe.? Demographic information 美利坚合众国 (United States of America) 从大西洋到太平洋，几乎横跨整个北美洲大陆，仅次于俄罗斯、加拿大和中华人民共和国，排名第四。 310 million people a