Most Americans say religion’s influence is waning, and half think that’s bad – poll
United States RNS As the US continues to debate the fusion of faith and politics, a sweeping new survey reports that most American adults have a positive view of religion’s role in public life but believe its influence is waning. The development appears to unsettle at least half of the country, with growing concern among […]
Post-pandemic faith: In the US, Black Protestant church still vital despite attendance drop
LUIS ANDRES HENAO, of Associated Press, reports…
Americans like Jews, Catholics and mainline Protestants. Evangelicals, not so much
United StatesRNS What do most Americans think of faiths not their own? Not much. That’s according to a new Pew Research survey that asked 10,588 Americans if they had positive or negative feelings toward other faiths. Between 40 per cent and 60 per cent answered “neither favorable nor unfavorable” or “don’t know enough to say.” “It may speak […]
US midterms: Faith plays central role in Republican efforts to win Latino votes
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports that Pew Research Center data looking at the 2022 midterm election preferences of Latinos shows that some of the sharpest differences in candidate choice are by religion…
Nearly half of Americans think the US should be a Christian nation – poll
United StatesRNS Forty-five per cent of Americans believe the US should be a “Christian nation,” one of several striking findings from a sweeping new Pew Research Center survey examining Christian nationalism. GRAPHIC: Courtesy of Pew Research Center But researchers say respondents differed greatly when it came to outlining what a Christian nation should look like, suggesting a […]
Most Americans support church-state separation; Christian nationalists differ – poll
RNS Americans do not want to see the United States declared a Christian country and they do not want to forsake the separation of church and state, a new Pew Research study finds. The study, a first-of-its-kind, conducted online in March among 12,055 Americans, finds that even among highly religious Christians, only a third said the US […]
Median length of sermons in US churches is 37 minutes, according to new analysis
The median length of a sermon given in US churches runs for 37 minutes, according to a new analysis of almost 50,000 online sermons. The Pew Research Centre study found that historically black Protestant churches had the longest sermons – a median of 54 minutes – while Catholic churches had the shortest with a median of […]
Millions making plans to leave Africa for Europe and US, says report
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nearly 1.5 million people have left sub-Saharan Africa for Europe and the United States since 2010, while millions more are making plans to follow in their footsteps, researchers said on Thursday. Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya were the biggest sources of migrants to Europe and the United States among the dozens of nations […]