Religion
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Protestants and highly religious Americans, traditionally Israel's most sympathetic supporters, are shrinking in size.
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Most Americans have a religious preference -- predominantly a Christian one -- but less than half say religion is "very important" to them.
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Results from the first year of the multiyear Global Flourishing study offer insights into why people's lives are going well.
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Three in 10 Americans, but 67% of Mormons, attend church regularly. Most religious groups show declines in attendance over the past two decades.
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The pope is viewed in a largely favorable light by Americans -- though less so among conservatives.
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A new report from Gallup and Radiant Foundation reveals a relationship between religiosity and wellbeing.
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Although the U.S. birth rate remains relatively low, Americans increasingly believe having three or more children is ideal.
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Slightly less than half of U.S. adults describe themselves as religious, while 33% say they are spiritual but not religious and 18% are neither.
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Recent Gallup data confirm a significant and growing relationship between religiosity and partisan identity in the U.S.
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Americans' belief in five religious entities -- God, angels, heaven, hell and the devil -- have all edged down since 2016, continuing a longer-term trend.
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Americans' church attendance levels dipped at the beginning of the pandemic and have remained lower since then.
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Survey researchers face the difficult challenge of meaningfully defining and measuring evangelicals in the U.S. today.
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Americans' views of national conditions remain sour, with 18% satisfied with the way things are going and the Economic Confidence Index holding at -43.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been identified as an evangelical for most of his public career, but defining exactly what that means today faces a number of challenges.
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Whether reflecting the remnants of the pandemic or the difficulty of inflation, Americans remain sour about the state of the union.
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Americans continue to rate nurses as having the highest ethical standards among 18 professions, but with their lowest rating since 2004. Telemarketers and members of Congress remain the lowest-rated fields.
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Although 67% of U.S. adults say they attended religious services regularly while they were growing up, 31% attend regularly today.
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One in four Americans have interacted with a chaplain at some point in their lives. Among those who have, most say the interaction was valuable.
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The percentage of Americans with no formal religious identity has increased dramatically since the 1950s, but that increase appears to have leveled off in Gallup's recent data.