Former Research Assistant
Joshua Alvarado is a former research assistant focusing on religion research at Pew Research Center.
Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, even as their share among Latino adults has steadily declined over the past decade. The share of Latinos who are religiously unaffiliated is now on par with U.S. adults overall.
Most Black Catholic churchgoers are racial minorities in their congregations, unlike White and Hispanic Catholics – and Black Protestants
66% of women say that in the past year, they have personally thought at least some about big questions; 55% of men report the same.
Why is there so much suffering and evil in the world? This question can be particularly confounding for those who believe in a good and all-powerful God, as is often described in the Abrahamic religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. For centuries, philosophers and theologians have grappled with this “problem of evil.”
In the U.S., highly religious adults are much more skeptical about the possibility of extraterrestrial life than those who are less religious.
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