Since this site seems to have entries on all of the above (religion, economics and international affairs) I thought this article would be of interest:

Basically the UK clergyman's union is in a dither about people choosing to "offshore prayer" (I am not making this up).

The key sentence is:

"Religious services and prayers for the dead are being offshored from the United Kingdom to India because of a lack of priests," Amicus, whose one-million-plus membership includes several thousand clergymen, said in a statement Wednesday."

Will the priests and ministers of the UK all go on strike? Isn't a clergy industrial action like putting the country under the Interdict?. That is sort of nostalgic. I don't think England has been under the Interdict for 500 years.

I wonder if the acquis communautaire (The EU's regulation of private life) will now make it a human rights violation to pray while there is a strike (industrial action) in place? In general the right to strike trumps all other rights in the EU :-)