What will 2020 bring to the faith beat?

While 1 in five people practice Islam internationally, a Pew Research survey in 2010 found that about half of Americans are able to correctly identify the Quran and Ramadan as associated with Islam. Another Pew survey in 2007 revealed that 58 percent of Americans say they know little or nothing about Islam’s practices, and often, what they do know […]

More than 30,000 Americans die each year from gun violence, yet gun control has not emerged as a significant agenda item for faith-based organizations seeking to affect public policy.

The Pew Center on the States’ Stateline website tracks immigration news at the state level.

More than 15,000 ethnic Hmong refugees now living in Thailand are eligible to be resettled in the United States, but their common practice of polygamy raises problems, according to a March 2, 2004, Reuters article posted by the Washington Times.

Read an article published in the spring 2003 issue of the Houston Law Review on the constitutionality of banning polygamy in the United States.

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The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life provides a resource page on religion and politics. It includes links to relevant surveys and news items.