Thursday, 7 September 2017

White Christians are now a minority of the U.S. population, survey says

White Christians are now a minority of the U.S. population, survey says

The share of Americans who identify as white and Christian has dropped below 50 percent, a transformation fueled by immigration and by growing numbers of people who reject organized religion altogether, according to a new survey released Wednesday. Christians overall remain a large majority in the U.S., at nearly 70 percent of Americans. However, white Christians, once predominant in the country’s religious life, now comprise only 43 percent of the population...
Read more: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/white-christians-now-minority-u-s-population-survey-says/?source=Snapzu

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