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Actively religious people are much more likely than those who are less religious to describe themselves as “very happy” according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center.

A remarkable 66 percent of U.S. adults believe that Jesus was miraculously born to the Virgin Mary, the Pew Research Center announced Tuesday.

A new survey revealed many of America’s college professors, especially those at liberal universities, are not fond of President Trump.

There is no majority of citizens in the world that supports increasing immigration levels to their home nation, a Pew Research Center study reveals.

Europe is renowned for the abandonment of its Christian heritage but within the continent there is a wide diversity of religious practice, the Pew Research Center revealed Wednesday.

The total number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, the Pew Research Center reported this week.

Immigration is popular, for the most part, among citizens of a nation when it is restricted, research in Japan from the Pew Research Center finds.

Pope Francis’s plunging approval ratings are primarily a reflection of how he has handled the clerical sex abuse crisis, said the director of the Pew Research Center Monday.

Republicans have shifted increasingly pro-life in the past two decades, while Democrats have skewed pro-choice, according to a Pew Research Center report.

The Catholic Church has experienced greater net losses due to religious conversion than any other religion in the U.S., the Pew Research Center reported Wednesday.

Pope Francis’ approval rating among U.S. Catholics has struck an all-time low in the face of his refusal to answer allegations that he rehabilitated serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Pew revealed Tuesday.

European nations leaning toward populism tend to have the most favorable view of the United States, while those embracing globalism have the least favorable view, the Pew Research Center has revealed.

The city of Pittsburgh will become the largest U.S. city without a daily print newspaper following the Post-Gazette’s announcement that it is ceasing publication of its Tuesday and Saturday editions.

The number of employees working in the news media has declined 23 percent over the past decade, according to a Pew Research Center study released Monday.

Americans are “far more religious” than citizens of other prosperous western countries, the Pew Research Center said in a report Tuesday.

The United States settled 33,000 refugees in 2017, significantly more than any other country in the world, the Pew Research Center revealed in a report this week.

In a new poll by Das Bild, the broadly Eurosceptic AfD party has risen to a record high of 16 percent approval nationally, while Merkel’s ruling coalition has fallen below the 50 percent mark for the first time in its existence.

In a study released this week, the Pew Research Center revealed that restrictions on religious belief and practice increased around the world for the second year in a row in 2016, with Christians being the group hardest hit.

A majority of Americans now favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder, the Pew Research Center revealed this week, reversing a decades-long trend toward opposition of capital punishment.

Most Brits back a ban on Islamic burkas or niqabs, a new survey has found, and a significant portion said  Islam, in general, is not compatible with their British way of life.

A poll on attitudes to minorities in Western Europe found that nearly a quarter of British respondents would be unwilling to accept Jews as family members.

The notorious divide between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of religion is actually between Republicans and white Democrats, a new Pew Research Center study reveals, with non-white Democrats more closely resembling the GOP in matters of faith and practice.

People in Western Europe are more divided by their populist leanings than by traditional left/right political categories in their trust of mainstream news media, a Pew study revealed Monday.

Despite recent signs of ebbing religious faith among Americans, the vast majority still believe in God or some sort of divinity, the Pew Research Center revealed in a report Wednesday.

Emigration from countries of Sub-Saharan Africa has risen dramatically in recent years and the region currently accounts for eight of the 10 fastest growing international migrant populations, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.

At the five-year mark in the Francis pontificate, “signs of growing discontent” with the pontiff are emerging among American Catholics, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics continue to

A telling new survey by the Pew Research Center reveals that Democrats who considered the economy a top priority under the Obama administration have changed their tune now that the economy has taken off under Trump.

Pope Francis called for the condemnation of “fake news,” while urging journalists to break monopolies that present just one version of the story.

Muslims are on-track to be the second-largest religious group in the United States by the year 2040, according to new research.

The inexorable drop in U.S. church attendance is not just a matter of concern for religious believers, but for everyone, a new report suggests.

A poll revealed that Trump’s approval matches Obama’s polling in his first year “despite massive negative Trump coverage & Russia hoax!”

The left-wing UK-based Guardian newspaper has announced “the end of white Christian America,” based on shifting demographics which now show white Christians to be a minority in the country.

Despite America’s official status as a secular nation without an established national religion, the constitution of every U.S. state makes reference to the divinity, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.

Millennials and Generation Xers are officially the largest voting block, overtaking the votes of baby boomers and other older Americans, Pew Research Center reported on Monday.

A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that a majority of Americans say the Democratic Party “too often sees government as the only way to solve problems.”

Nearly half of self-identifying liberals feel their relationship with a friend would be strained if they voted for Donald Trump, while conservatives remain far more tolerant of their liberal counterparts, a study from the Pew Research Center has found.