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

Reuters: Far more Christian than Muslim migrants worldwide
Christians far outnumber Muslims as migrants around the world, including in the European Union where debates about immigration usually focus on new Muslim arrivals, according to a new study issued on Thursday.
UPI: Christian migrants flock to U.S.
Nearly half of the world's migrants are Christian and they're more likely to immigrate to the United States than anywhere else in the world, a study suggests.
RNS: Jews are the world’s most migratory religious group
Ever since their mad dash out of Egypt bound for the Promised Land, Jews have been on the move — and they continue to be, far more than any other religious group, according to a new study.
Vatican Radio: Restrictions on religious practice on the rise
Approximately 70% of the world’s population lives in countries with high restrictions on religious beliefs and practices, and those restrictions are growing. The problem was scheduled to be discussed at a meeting at Rome’s Pontifical University “Antonianum” on Tuesday evening.
American Interest: A global Evangelical elite
Belatedly I have just read a report issued in June 2011 by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, an organization that has been producing interesting survey data about worldwide religion with astounding frequency.
Macleans: Infographic: Religious persecution around the world
Infographic on restrictions on religious freedoms around the world.
WSJ: Video: Where the Christians are
A video interview with Pew Forum demographer Conrad Hackett on the size and distribution of the world's Christian population.
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.
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.
Global Post: Twin bombings targeting Afghan Shiites kill dozens, President Karzai halts UK trip (VIDEO)
Police in Afghanistan said bombings on Tuesday hit a Shiite Muslim shrine and a mosque, killing at least 54 people, and wounding more than 100 during one of the most important days in the Shiite calendar, The New York Times reported.
Jerusalem Post: Opinion: Are young rabbis turning on Israel?
For all the theological, ritualistic and institutional differences separating the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform movements, for all their divergent approaches to revelation, halacha and communal decision- making, what distinguishes the groups in the minds of many ordinary American Jews comes down to branding.
Catholic Culture: Needed: a sense of urgency about religious freedom in US foreign policy
Not a single Christian church remains standing in Afghanistan.
CNN: U.S. evangelicals gloomy about future, 'global south' optimistic, study finds
Half the world's evangelical Protestant leaders are optimistic about the future, confident that evangelical Christians have an increasing influence in their countries and that things will be better for them in five years.
CNN: Unrest: Middle East and North Africa, country by country
Demonstrations have spread across parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Here are the latest developments from each country, and information on the roots of the unrest.
Wash. Post: Egypt's uprising stirs fears of persecution in minority Coptic Christians
With attacks on Christians already increasing in the Middle East, the populist uprising in Egypt has triggered fears among some that the region's largest non-Muslim population - Egypt's 7 million Coptic Christians - could be at risk.
NYT: Forecast sees Muslim population leveling off
A new report forecasts that the number of Muslims around the world will grow over the next 20 years at twice the rate of non-Muslims, but that the rapid growth will level off.
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