Gallup poll: More than half of Americans rarely go to church
United States RNS The most popular church in America might be St Mattress, followed by Bedside Baptist. Those two – euphemisms for sleeping in on Sundays – increasingly describe the attitude of many Americans toward attending churches or other houses of worship. Mark Galli kneels in prayer before Mass at St Michael Catholic Church, on […]
Who are the ‘nones’?: New Pew study debunks myths about America’s nonreligious.
“Today, the ‘nones’ kind of look like everybody else,” said sociologist Ryan Cragun. “At some level, we’re saying, hey, actually, this is just your neighbour.” KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, reports…
A third of Asian Americans say religion is very important in their lives – survey
United StatesRNS More Asian Americans identify as atheist, agnostic or nonreligious than before, according to a survey released Wednesday by Pew Research Center. But 40 per cent of those Pew surveyed, who included Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese backgrounds, said they feel close to a religion for reasons aside from religion, […]
Catholicism: Nearly 80 per cent of Italians say they are Catholic. But few regularly go to church
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports from Italy…
Changing church: ‘The Great Dechurching’ explores America’s religious exodus
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on a new study which looks at why millions of Americans left church – and what might bring them back…
Among US Latinos, Catholicism still largest faith – poll
New York, USAP Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, but the number of Latinos who identify as religiously unaffiliated continues to grow. Those are among the key findings in a comprehensive report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center that surveyed 7,647 US adults from 1st to 14th August […]
Christians a minority in England; non-religious grow – census
London, UKAP Fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian, according to the most recent census – the first time a minority of the population has followed the country’s official religion. Britain has become less religious – and less white – in the decade since the last census, figures from the 2021 census […]
Essay: Northern Ireland census shows more Catholics than Protestants – a political scientist on what this really means
LAURENCE COOLEY, of University of Birmingham, explores – in an article first published on The Conversation, what the latest statistics on religious affiliation in Northern Ireland mean…
More Australians nominate ‘no religion’ in latest census, a declining number identify as Christians
Sydney, Australia The results of the 2021 census were released in late June. One of the most discussed findings was a rise in the number of Australians who declared themselves as belonging to the category “no religion”, along with a fall in those responding as “Christian”. According to the census results, Christian identification declined from 52 per […]
Essay: Faith in numbers – Trump held steady among believers at the ballot – it was the non-religious vote he lost in 2020
In an article first published on The Conversation, RYAN BURGE, assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University in the US, looks at what the numbers from last year’s US election show about religious voters…