There are many religious groups around the world that are not presented separately in this report due to their relatively small size and the limitations of national censuses and other data sources.
Parishioners attend Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in the Queens borough of New York on Sunday, May 8, 2022. (Credit: Brittainy Newman/AP.) Listen NEW YORK – A new study has found that in ...
The United States’ founders set out to create a country where citizens would be free to practice whatever religion they chose. Does all that freedom fuel religious switching? Yes, but not as much as ...
Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated, according to a new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population between ...
Our 2010 estimates of the size of religious groups differ from the 2010 estimates we published in previous reports, including “The Global Religious Landscape” (2012), “The Future of World Religions: ...
Learn why “world religions” is a category constructed by human choice When we think of world religions, we often think of the Big Five: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. But why do ...
Apart from Muslims, the only other group that grew as a percentage of the global population were those who identify as having no religion, known as 'nones.' The report covered 201 countries, focusing ...
From August 14 to 18, 2023, I attended a Parliament of the World Religions in Chicago. The gathering drew together more than 7,000 people representing about 100 countries and more than 200 different ...
America now occupies a unique position—maintaining a medium-high Christian identity with middling religiosity compared.