Anti-Jewish harassment occurred in 94 countries in 2020, up from earlier years
Incidents against Jewish people in 2020 ranged from verbal and physical assaults to vandalism of cemeteries and scapegoating for the pandemic.
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Incidents against Jewish people in 2020 ranged from verbal and physical assaults to vandalism of cemeteries and scapegoating for the pandemic.
17% of U.S. adults have unfollowed, unfriended, blocked or changed their settings to see less of someone on social media because of religious content the person posted or shared.
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.
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.
The global Muslim population is more concentrated in Islam’s main population centers than the global Christian population is for Christianity.
In addition to government actions, there also was a dramatic increase in Europe in some measures of social hostility to religion.
Among those who are religiously unaffiliated, meanwhile, the vast majority (84%) say casual sex is sometimes or always acceptable.
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.
While teens in the United States take after their parents religiously in many ways, they stand out in some others.
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