President Donald Trump has repeatedly encouraged more religion in the public square. But according to a new Gallup Poll, there’s been no significant change in the importance of religion to Americans and church attendance continues to decline.
Yonat Shimron - Religion News Service
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Study: Black U.S. Catholics are the most likely to leave the church. Why?
While Catholics generally are prone to religious switching, Black Catholics have the highest rates. Only 54 percent of U.S. Black Catholics who were raised in the faith remain so as adults.
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Poll: America is more secular — but the percentage of Catholics is staying steady
Protestants account for most of the decline — down 4 percentage points from five years ago and 10 percentage points since a decade ago. Catholics held relatively steady at 21 percent.
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For Mother Teresa Catholic Church in North Carolina, a smaller congregation isn’t a bad thing
Surrounded by other churches with huge congregations, Mother Teresa Catholic Church in Cary, N.C., remains intentionally small to more directly minister to its parishioners.
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Pope Francis challenged by Israel’s chief Rabbis over his comments on the Torah
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has written a letter to Pope Francis conveying its “distress” at comments he made suggesting Jewish law, as written in the Torah, is obsolete.
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A new book examines Sting’s enduring Catholic imagination
Evyatar Marienberg, a historian of religion at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has written a book about Sting’s Catholic imagination and how it fueled his creativity.
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Final Plowshares Catholic peace activist sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
“My neighborhood, my family and I have a right to live without a nuclear gun on hair-trigger alert held perpetually to our heads,” Colville told the judge.
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Catholic activist injured by police officers during racial justice protest sues the city of Buffalo
A Catholic social justice activist who was knocked to the ground by police during a protest over racism last year has sued the city of Buffalo, its mayor, the police commissioner and several police officers.
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A look at Joe Biden’s religiously and ethnically diverse cabinet nominees
If all the nominees the president-elect has chosen are confirmed, the Cabinet will have diverse religious backgrounds. The majority are Catholic, with five Jews, two Black Baptists and two Hindus.
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117th Congress is mostly Christian—and Catholics are overrepresented
The 117th session of Congress got off to a testy start on Sunday, including an opening prayer from an ordained member whose pairing of “A-woman” with the traditional “Amen” raised both hackles and questions about the meaning of the word.