Percentage of UK population per faith group*
Christian – 71.8
Muslim – 2.8
Hindu – 1
Sikh – 0.6
Jewish – 0.5
Buddhist – 0.3
Other religions – 0.3
No religion – 15
Not stated – 7.7
*according to Home Office statistics
Toll of death :
Killed for honour in Britain
The courts will decide in November if Banaz Mahmod Babakir Agha, 20, was killed in an honour killing. She was forced into marriage by her family of Kurdish origin, but left her ................................husband last year.
After falling in love with another man she went missing from her family home in London in January 2006.
In April her body was found in a suitcase in Birmingham.
Samaira Nazir, 25, was killed with a kitchen knife in April 2005 by her 17-year-old male Pakistani cousin and her brother Azhar, 30.
They murdered her because she insisted on marrying her Afghan boyfriend.
Her two and four-year-old nieces were watching the murder.
Ms Nazir had been taken to Pakistan to be introduced to suitors, but refused them all.
While her father is in hiding, both her brother and cousin were found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey and will be sentenced on July 14, 2006.
Arash Ghorbani-Zarin, 19, one of the rare male victims of honour killing.
He was murdered by his girlfriend's brother and father.
The Iranian man had fallen in love with Manna Begum in summer 2003.
After her family discovered she was pregnant, Mr Ghorbani-Zarin was found dead in his car in November 2003 in Oxford.
Sahjda Bibi, 21, was stabbed by her cousin in her own bedroom in Birmingham in January 2003.
Hours later she would have married a non-blood relative, which her cousin regarded as shameful as it did not comply with family traditions.
He was found guilty of murder in October 2003. Ms Bibi's parents condemned the "cowardly act" and hoped the verdict would be a warning to others.
Heshu Yones, 16, had her throat slit by her Kurdish father who did not approve of her Western lifestyle and of her having a boyfriend.
Police assumed she had been locked up and beaten for months before her death.
After attacking his daughter with a kitchen knife in their London home, Yones tried to commit suicide.
He pleaded for the court to pass the death sentence on him, but was sentenced to life.
Rukhsana Naz, 19, was held down by her mother and strangled by her brother in Derby in March 1999.
They had invited her to what she thought was a family dinner and attacked her.
In their eyes she had shamed the family by leaving her arranged marriage, which she had entered at 16, and becoming pregnant by her lover.
Both her mother and her brother were sentenced to life.