8 key findings about Christians in India
Today, there are millions of Christians in India, although they make up just 2.4% of the country’s massive population.
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Today, there are millions of Christians in India, although they make up just 2.4% of the country’s massive population.
Highly religious Americans are much more likely to see society in those terms, while nonreligious people tend to see more ambiguity.
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.
But they hold differing opinions about what that phrase means, and two-thirds of U.S. adults say churches should keep out of politics.
While Biden’s rating is still low among White Christians, positive ratings also fell among Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated.
Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.
Churches and other houses of worship increasingly are holding services the way they did before the COVID-19 outbreak began.
A new analysis of survey data finds that there has been no large-scale departure from evangelicalism among White Americans.
During the pandemic, a stable share of U.S. adults have been participating in religious services in some way – either virtually or in person – but in-person attendance is slightly lower than it was before COVID-19. Among Americans surveyed across several years, the vast majority described their attendance habits in roughly the same way in both 2019 and 2022.
Among White Americans, worship service attendance remains highly correlated with presidential vote choice.
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