Race, Ethnicity & Religion

Majorities of Black adults say predominantly Black churches have done at least some to help Black Americans.

Black American religious life is diverse, encompassing a wide range of religious affiliations, worship practices and beliefs.

U.S. Hispanic teens are more likely than U.S. teens overall to identify as Catholic and say it’s necessary to believe in God to be moral.

Black and Hispanic worshippers are less likely than their white counterparts to say they have gone to a house of worship recently.

Research has shown that men in the United States are generally less religious than women. And while this pattern holds true among black Americans, black men are still a highly religious group.

Black adults in the U.S. are more likely than most other Americans to read scripture regularly and to view it as the word of God.

Nearly eight-in-ten black Americans identify as Christian, compared with 70% of whites, 77% of Latinos and just 34% of Asian Americans.

Religion, particularly Christianity, has played an outsize role in African American history. For Black History Month, here are five facts about the religious lives of African Americans.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the U.S. government granting American citizenship to the residents of Puerto Rico, here are key facts about the territory.

Clinton backers are nearly twice as likely as those who support Donald Trump to say the treatment of minorities is very important to their 2016 decision (79% vs. 42%).