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Poll suggests religious freedom push is having an effect
By Yonat Shimron — August 6, 2018
(RNS) — Businesses owned by religious families are refusing to provide services to LGBT couples. Nearly a majority of Americans say that's OK.
Most US faith groups say country is on the wrong track
By Yonat Shimron — July 19, 2018
(RNS) – Unlike other religious groups, they believe the country is headed in the right direction.
Muslims disapprove of country’s direction but are proud to call themselves Americans
By Yonat Shimron — May 1, 2018
(RNS) — The survey shows that despite experiencing more discrimination than other religious groups, American Muslims take pride in their U.S. identity as well as their faith and, for the most part, are gaining acceptance among other religious traditions.
Most Americans believe, but not always in the God of the Bible
By Yonat Shimron — April 25, 2018
(RNS) — Among the so-called 'nones' — a broad category of atheists, agnostics and those who answer 'none of the above' on questions about religion — 72 percent believe in a higher power of some kind.
After Roy Moore, evangelicals must trade wishful thinking for soul-searching
By Jonathan Merritt — December 13, 2017
Some people choose to live in houses filled with covered mirrors, but Christians cannot afford to be those kinds of people.
Good without God? More Americans say amen to that
By Kimberly Winston — October 17, 2017
(RNS) — A majority of American adults say belief in God is not required to be a moral person.
Most US Jews oppose Trump but the Orthodox stick with him
By Yonat Shimron — September 13, 2017
(RNS) — The vast majority of Jews did not vote for Trump, exit polls showed. But those who identify as Orthodox were the most supportive of Trump on Election Day and continue to give him high marks.
New study shows number of American atheists underreported
By Kimberly Winston — April 17, 2017
(RNS) Could the actual number be as high as 26 percent?
Support for Muslim ban up among white evangelicals
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 24, 2017
(RNS) But support has dropped among all other religious groups.
Trump’s surprise election tops religion news stories of 2016
By Kimberly Winston — December 14, 2016
(RNS) In an annual poll of religion news writers, Trump shares spotlight with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Pope Francis and more.
White evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons carried Trump
By Lauren Markoe — November 9, 2016
(RNS) Evangelical support for Donald Trump surged even as prominent evangelicals, including Southern Baptist Russell Moore, railed against Trump's behavior toward immigrants, women and other groups as un-Christian.
Catholics, the ultimate swing voters, lean heavily toward Clinton
By Lauren Markoe — October 31, 2016
(RNS) White Catholics and Latino Catholics part ways on Donald Trump.
One-fifth of Americans raised in religiously mixed homes
By Kimberly Winston — October 26, 2016
(RNS) A new poll shows a growing number of Americans come from mixed-faith families.
Poll: Trump support remains steady among evangelicals
By Lauren Markoe — October 11, 2016
(RNS) White evangelical Protestants -- and men in general -- aren't abandoning Trump.
Why most people leave religion? They just ‘stop believing’
By Kimberly Winston — September 22, 2016
(RNS) In a gloomy forecast for organized religion, only seven percent of the 'nones' say they are looking for a religion.
