About four-in-ten U.S. adults believe humanity is ‘living in the end times’
58% of U.S. adults say they do not believe “we are living in the end times” – the destruction of the world as we know it.
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58% of U.S. adults say they do not believe “we are living in the end times” – the destruction of the world as we know it.
About a quarter of U.S. adults regularly watch religious services online or on TV, and most of them are highly satisfied with the experience. About two-in-ten Americans (21%) use apps or websites to help with reading scripture.
Just about a third of Indian adults (35%) say they ever practice yoga, including 22% who say they do so monthly or less.
Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.
Today, most Black adults say they rely on prayer to help make major decisions, and view opposing racism as essential to their religious faith.
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.
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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