Religions

More Christian than Muslim refugees have been admitted to the United States in the first months of the Trump administration, reversing a trend that had seen Muslims outnumber Christians in the final fiscal year under President Barack Obama, a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. State Department refugee data has found.

Christians were harassed by governments or social groups in a total of 128 countries in 2015 – more countries than any other religious group.

People across Europe and in the U.S. and Canada have pervasive concerns about the threat of Islamic extremism in their countries.

A substantial share of adults in Central and Eastern Europe hold traditional views of women and the family, especially in countries with Orthodox majorities.

Russia is widely viewed by the region’s Orthodox Christians as an important counterweight to Western influences and as a global protector of Orthodox and ethnic Russian populations.

Religion has reasserted itself as an important part of individual and national identity in many places where communist regimes once repressed religious worship and promoted atheism.

Religion has reasserted itself as an important part of individual and national identity in a region that was once dominated by atheist communist regimes.

The generation gap between millennials and older adults on social and political issues exists even among evangelical Protestants.