The myth of the Indian vegetarian nation
Source: BBC By Soutik Biswas, India correspondent What are the most common myths and stereotypes about what Indians eat? The biggest myth, of course, is that India is a largely vegetarian […]
Israeli demographer: Arabs nearly equal Jews in Holy Land
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s leading demographics expert on Tuesday defended military figures indicating the number of Arabs will soon equal that of Jews in […]
5 facts about Muslim Millennials in the U.S.
Source: Pew Research Center BY JEFF DIAMANT AND CLAIRE GECEWICZ The Muslim population in the United States is younger than the U.S. population at large. In fact, while Millennials make up 32% of […]
Key facts about black immigrants in the U.S.
Source: Pew Research Center BY MONICA ANDERSON AND GUSTAVO LÓPEZ The United States has long had a sizable black population because of the transatlantic slave trade beginning in the 16th century. But significant voluntary black […]
New study of Millennials and GenZ points to a “massive religious realignment” in America
Source: Religion News Service By Jana Riess | 20 hours ago PRRI and MTV recently released a study on the political and social views of more than 2,000 Americans ages 15 to 24, which includes […]
The share of Americans who leave Islam is offset by those who become Muslim
Source: Pew Research Center By Besheer Mohamed and Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac Like Americans in many other religious groups, a substantial share of adults who were raised Muslim no longer identify […]
77% of American converts to Islam were previously Christian. Why did they make the change?
Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED AND ELIZABETH PODREBARAC SCIUPAC Among those who have converted to Islam, a majority come from a Christian background. In fact, about half of […]
Most American Catholic Women Want The Church To Have Female Deacons, Poll Finds
Source: Huffington Post American Catholic women are ready to see female deacons preaching from the pulpit. But it’s not up to them to decide. By Carol Kuruvilla BOSTON GLOBE VIA […]
What is South America Telling Organized Religion?
Religion in Latin America: Widespread Change in a Historically Catholic Region Source Pew Research Center Latin America is home to more than 425 million Catholics – nearly 40% of the world’s total […]
52% of U.S. Muslims: ‘Traditional understandings of Islam must be reinterpreted to address modern issues’
52% of U.S. Muslims say that traditional understandings of Islam must be reinterpreted to address modern-day issues https://t.co/wNfbp5ctzu pic.twitter.com/VohmHPlyHH — Pew Research Fact Tank (@FactTank) January 12, 2018 Suggested reading […]
Defining what it means to be religious
Source: Jordan Times By James J. Zogby Ever since we learned that 80 per cent of self-described “born-again” Christians supported Donald Trump’s candidacy for president, there has been a discussion […]
Pew Research Center: 17 striking findings from 2017
Source: Pew Research Center Abigail Geiger is an associate digital producer and writer for Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center studies a wide array of topics both in the U.S. […]
Organized Religion Recedes As Individual Choices on Rise
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times According to a recent Pew Research Center polling, the percentage of Protestants Christians, who say they attend church […]
52% of U.S. Muslims say that traditional understandings of Islam must be reinterpreted to address modern-day issues
U.S. Muslims are religiously observant, but open to multiple interpretations of Islam Source: Pew research center By Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac, who is a research associate focusing on religion at Pew […]
Poll: Americans see different expectations for men and women
Source; Pew Research Center BY KIM PARKER, JULIANA MENASCE HOROWITZ AND RENEE STEPLER The public has very different views about what society values most in men and what it values in women. While […]
‘A disaster in the making’: Pakistan’s population surges to 207.7 million
Source: The Washington Post By Pamela Constable September 9 Rubina Rehman, a government family welfare worker, counsels a young mother. Her job includes promoting family planning and providing contraceptives to limit family […]
On Gender Differences, No Consensus on Nature vs. Nurture
Source: Pew Research Center Americans say society places a higher premium on masculinity than on femininity BY KIM PARKER, JULIANA MENASCE HOROWITZ AND RENEE STEPLER Twenty-five years after the release of the bestseller “Men […]
Europe’s Growing Muslim Population
Source: Pew Research Center Muslims are projected to increase as a share of Europe’s population – even with no future migration Migrants who had arrived via buses chartered by Austrian authorities walk towards the border to Germany on October 17, 2015 near Fuchsoedt, Austria. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Deutsch | Français […]
The Growth of Germany’s Muslim Population
Source: Pew Research Center Between 2010 and 2016, the number of Muslims living in Germany rose from 3.3 million (4.1% of the population) to nearly 5 million (6.1%), while the […]
Pakistan’s long-persecuted Ahmadi minority fear becoming election scapegoat
Source: Swiss Info By Saad Sayeed RABWAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – Crammed into buses and mini-vans, more than 10,000 Pakistanis travelled to a mosque on the outskirts of the small Punjabi […]