Making up just 0.5% of U.S. adults, Seventh-day Adventists are extremely devout and are one of the country’s most diverse religious groups by race and ethnicity.
The face of Catholic America is changing. Today, immigrants make up a considerable share of Catholics, and many are Hispanic. At the same time, there has been a regional shift, from the Northeast (long home to a large percentage of the Catholic faithful) and Midwest to the Western and Southern parts of the U.S.
The religious face of America is largely a Christian one, with roughly seven-in-ten Americans belonging to that faith. But some of the nationโs biggest metropolitan areas have a very different look.
The nationโs population is growing more racially and ethnically diverse โ and so are many of its religious groups, both at the congregational level and among broader Christian traditions.
Pope Francis begins a highly anticipated seven-day South American trip on Sunday that includes stops in Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay. As millions of faithful Catholics prepare to welcome Pope Francis next week, here are key facts about his trip.
While either Christians or Muslims make up the largest religious group in nine-in-ten nations around the globe, the religiously unaffiliated rank second in size in most of the Americas and Europe, as well as in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Two-thirds (66%) of U.S. Mormon adults are currently married, down slightly from 71% in 2007 โ but still high compared with current rates among Christians overall (52%) and U.S. adults overall (48%).
In recent years, the share of Americans who identify with mainline Protestantism has been shrinking significantly, a trend driven partly by generational change.