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    Presidential Election in South Korea Highlights Influence of Christian Community

    by Luis Lugo, Director, and Brian J. Grim, Senior Research Fellow, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life The upcoming presidential election in South Korea on Dec. 19 is drawing attention to the growing presence of Christianity in a country that as recently as 1960 had fewer than a million Christians. The odds-on favorite in […]

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    Decline in Support for Suicide Bombing

    Support for suicide bombings in defense of Islam declined by half or more in Lebanon, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia over the last five years, according to a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey.

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    Turkey and Its (Many) Discontents

    by Brian J. Grim, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, and Richard Wike, Pew Global Attitudes Project Earlier this month, Turkey threatened to curtail U.S. military access to Turkish bases and recalled its ambassador from Washington for consultations. These actions came in response to the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee’s approval of a resolution […]

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    Contented Mexicans

    That’s the share of the Mexican public who rate their current lives at 7 or better on a scale of zero to 10 — the highest proportion of any of the 47 countries covered in the latest Pew Global Attitudes survey.

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    Support for Suicide Bombing in Lebanon

    About a third of the Lebanese public (34%) now feels that suicide bombings are often or sometimes justified in the defense if Islam, a large decline from the 74% who said so in 2002.

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    Americans See Environment as Major Global Problem

    That’s the proportion of Americans who cited environmental problems as a major global threat in a recent Pew Global Attitudes poll, a double-digit increase over the number who did so five years ago but still fewer than in any other advanced industrial country or in China.

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    Widespread Negativity: Muslims Distrust Westerners More than Vice Versa

    by Richard Wike, Pew Global Attitudes Project, and Brian J. Grim, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life News headlines bombard us almost daily with examples of conflict between the Muslim world and the West, whether the war in Iraq, the search for al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, or efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear […]

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