Religion

Few United States adults – just 5% – say God chose Donald Trump to be president because God approves of his policies.

White evangelicals largely see Trump as fighting for their beliefs and advancing their interests, and they feel their side generally has been winning recently on political matters important to them.

Christians are more likely than religiously unaffiliated Americans to see the Supreme Court favorably (69% vs. 51%).

Americans say they don’t consider Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren to be particularly religious.

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Early indications are that candidate preferences by religion will be familiar in November – and closely linked to each group’s party leanings.

There are differences by religious tradition in how satisfied churchgoers are with what they hear from the pulpit.

Of those surveyed, 33% said it should be harder for someone to obtain an abortion near them than it is currently.

Most U.S. adults know what the Holocaust was and approximately when it happened, but fewer than half can correctly answer multiple-choice questions about the number of Jews who were murdered or the way Adolf Hitler came to power, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.