Religion

Wide majorities in most of the 17 advanced economies surveyed say having people of many different backgrounds improves their society, but most also see conflicts between partisan, racial and ethnic groups.

Weekly Mass-goers and Catholic Republicans express higher levels of disapproval of the pope’s new restrictions.

Social hostilities around the world involving religion declined in 2019 to the lowest level in five years.

Social hostilities involving religion, including violence and harassment against religious groups by private individuals and groups, declined in 2019, according to Pew Research Center’s 12th annual study of global restrictions on religion, which examines 198 countries and territories.

Religious pluralism has long been a core value in India. A new report shows that India’s religious composition has been fairly stable since 1951.

All major religious groups in India have shown sharp declines in their fertility rates, limiting change in the country’s religious composition since 1951. Meanwhile, fertility differences between India’s religious groups are generally much smaller than they used to be.

As the drive to inoculate more people continues, here are 10 facts about Americans and COVID-19 vaccines.

A new analysis of survey data finds that there has been no large-scale departure from evangelicalism among White Americans.

The U.S. Muslim population has grown in the decades since 9/11, but views toward them have become increasingly polarized along political lines.

Among White Americans, worship service attendance remains highly correlated with presidential vote choice.