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The religious traditions with the largest number of advocacy groups in Washington, D.C. are Catholicism (19% of all groups) and evangelical Protestantism (18% of all groups).

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee spent $87,899,089 on advocacy in 2008 — significantly more than any of the other 212 religion-related organizations who have partaken in advocacy efforts in the nation’s capitol.

According to projections, Muslims will account for 1.7% of the U.S. population in 2030, up from 0.8% in 2010.

More than four-in-ten Catholics do not know that their church teaches that the bread and wine used in Communion do not merely symbolize, but actually become, the body and blood of Christ.

Not counting the trick-or-treaters scaring up fun this weekend, more than two-thirds of Americans agree that angels and demons are active in the world.

That’s the number of American adults who say the state of Israel is a fulfillment of the biblical prophesy about the second coming of Jesus. A still larger number, 44%, believe God gave the land that is now Israel to the Jewish people.