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short readsJun 17, 2019

World’s population is projected to nearly stop growing by the end of the century

For the first time in modern history, the world’s population is expected to virtually stop growing by the end of this century.
short readsNov 7, 2018

In 2016, emergency laws restricted religious freedoms of Muslims more than other groups

In 2016, seven nations – Turkey, Brunei, Ethiopia, France, Hungary, Niger and Tunisia – directly used emergency laws to restrict religion, according to Pew Research Center’s latest annual religious restrictions study. While a number of different religious groups were targeted, these laws imposed restrictions on Muslims more than any other group.
short readsJan 14, 2019

Split between Ukrainian, Russian churches shows political importance of Orthodox Christianity

Ukraine is an overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian nation, and 46% of Orthodox Ukrainians look to the Ukrainian national church leaders as the highest Orthodoxy authority.
short readsJan 17, 2019

Black Muslims account for a fifth of all U.S. Muslims, and about half are converts to Islam

About half of black Muslims are converts to Islam, a relatively high conversion level. Black Muslims, like black Americans overall, have high levels of religious commitment.
reportJul 23, 2019

What Americans Know About Religion

Before you read the report Test your religious knowledge by taking an interactive quiz. The short quiz includes some questions recently asked in the nationally representative survey that forms the basis of this report. After completing the quiz, you can see how you did in comparison with the general public and with people like yourself. […]
short readsJan 24, 2019

In 116th Congress, at least 13% of lawmakers are immigrants or the children of immigrants

The 69 immigrants and children of immigrants in the 116th Congress claim heritage in 38 countries and are overwhelmingly Democrats.
short readsAug 9, 2018

Record number of forcibly displaced people lived in sub-Saharan Africa in 2017

The number of people living in sub-Saharan Africa who were forced to leave their homes due to conflict reached a new high of 18.4 million in 2017, up sharply from 14.1 million in 2016 – the largest regional increase of forcibly displaced people in the world.
short readsAug 22, 2018

The world’s most committed Christians live in Africa, Latin America – and the U.S.

Christians in Africa and Latin America tend to pray more frequently, attend religious services more regularly and consider religion more important in their lives than Christians elsewhere in the world, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. At the same time, Christians in the United States also have comparatively high levels of commitment to their faith.
short readsAug 23, 2018

Applications for U.S. diversity visa lottery remained near record in 2017

More than 22.4 million people applied in 2017 to a U.S. visa program that provides 50,000 green cards each year through a lottery system. The number of applicants nearly matched the record 23 million applicants received in 2016 and came as the Trump administration and some members of Congress have sought to eliminate the program – the only one of its kind globally.
short readsNov 28, 2017

Ethiopia is an outlier in the Orthodox Christian world

Ethiopia has 36 million Orthodox Christians, the world’s second-largest Orthodox population after Russia. By many measures, Orthodox Ethiopians have much higher levels of religious commitment than do Orthodox Christians in the faith’s heartland of Central and Eastern Europe.

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World’s population is projected to nearly stop growing by the end of the century

In 2016, emergency laws restricted religious freedoms of Muslims more than other groups

Split between Ukrainian, Russian churches shows political importance of Orthodox Christianity

Black Muslims account for a fifth of all U.S. Muslims, and about half are converts to Islam

What Americans Know About Religion

Record number of forcibly displaced people lived in sub-Saharan Africa in 2017

The world’s most committed Christians live in Africa, Latin America – and the U.S.

Applications for U.S. diversity visa lottery remained near record in 2017

Ethiopia is an outlier in the Orthodox Christian world

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