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Selected news stories that cite the Pew Forum and its data.

America Magazine: Where are the world's Christians?
“Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population” has just been published by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Augusta Chronicle: Study: Christian population is shifting
Today, there are two times as many Catholics in Brazil as in Italy.
Huff. Post: Christianity sees major shifts In 100 years, percentage of population remains constant
With Christmas fast approaching, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life published a new comprehensive demographic report on the size and distribution of the world’s Christian population.
CNN: Christianity goes global as world's largest religion
Christians are by far the largest religious group on the planet, and the religion has gone truly global over the past century, according to a new report out Monday, which finds some of the world's biggest Christian communities in surprising places.
Vancouver Sun: Half world’s 2.3 billion Christians are Catholic
The world’s largest Christian population is in the United States.
UPI: World's Christian populations surveyed
There are 2.18 billion Christians around the world, nearly a third of the estimated 2010 global population of 6.9 billion, a demographic study found.
Catholic World News: Christians remain world's largest religious bloc
Christianity remains the world’s largest religion, measured by the number of the faithful.
Postmedia News: Veiled threat: Niqab ban has some fearing a less tolerant Canada
When Minna Ella walks through the department store, she's one of the few women who don't get pestered by clerks trying to dole out free makeup and perfume samples.
Newsweek: Mitt Romney’s Mormon problem in the Iowa caucuses simply won’t die
The Mormon issue has reared its unattractive head in Iowa.
St. Petersburg Times: For Obama, religion remains an issue
Bundled in winter coats and holding hands, President Barack Obama and his family left the White House last Sunday and strolled through a park to St. John's Episcopal Church.
National Catholic Reporter: Survey of Catholics illuminates life in the pews
The research team, commissioned by The National Catholic Reporter (NCR), which included William D'Antonio of The Catholic University of America (CUA), Mary Gautier of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University and Michele Dillon of the University of New Hampshire, recently completed the fifth survey of U.S. Catholics.
Detroit Free Press: Hindu American Foundation holds forum in Farmington Hills, works to spread message of pluralism and peace
The Hindu American Foundation held a forum Saturday in Farmington Hills, raising $30,000 from local residents to help spread its message of pluralism and peace.
Philly Post: Why Republicans won’t ever get the Jewish vote
This week the Republican Jewish Coalition held its presidential candidates forum, and the visiting contenders engaged in transparently obsequious rhetoric to demonstrate their love of Israel.
National Catholic Reporter: New data from Pew
Yesterday, the blogging was a little thin because I attended an all-day conference at the Pew Research Center on media coverage of religion and politics.
Oklahoma Daily: EDITORIAL: Religious campaign commercial backfires
Gov. Rick Perry’s new campaign ad, “Strong,” features the line “... there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military, but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.”
NYT: Opinion: The new Evangelicals
Though public support for both major political parties is very low, one group of voters is usually exempted from this malaise: evangelicals.
Scripps: Religion: A growing, changing God lobby in D.C.
Believe it or not, politicians used to be able to assume that when the U.S. Catholic bishops spoke on an issue, that meant that the nation's Catholics had spoken.
Scripps: Religion still affects voters' views of candidates
A quarter of Americans in a recent poll said they are less likely to support a Mormon running for president, suggesting Republican Mitt Romney continues to have a "Mormon problem."
Denver Post: Campaign seeks lapsed Catholics' return to fold
Catholics Come Home, a lay organization faithful to church teachings, is launching the church's first nationwide television ad campaign inviting millions of inactive and former Catholics to return to the fold.
Deseret News: Every knee shall bow? Many atheist scientists take their kids to church
Happy Holidays, Merry Xmas, the holiday tree.
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