Survey: Christianity declining rapidly in US, down 12 percentage points in last decade

Published October 17, 2019 6:03pm ET



A new survey shows American Christianity is declining steadily, with young Americans increasingly identifying as unaffiliated with any religious group.

The survey, conducted by Pew Research Center, follows additional studies over the past couple decades that have shown membership in Christian churches declining in the United States. The latest study also reflects past findings that millennials, those born in the last couple decades of the 20th century, are especially nonreligious and unlikely to attend church services regularly.

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