A new Pew Research Center study on the gap between the importance of religion in the lives of younger and older adults shows that faith is most important to young people in some sub-Saharan African countries.

In Ghana and the former Soviet republic of Georgia – both countries with histories of being heavily influenced by Soviet Marxist movements – faith is blooming since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

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