WASHINGTON, March 8 (UPI) -- 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.

The U.S.-based Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life said of the 43 million foreign-born people living in the United States in 2010, an estimated 74 percent are Christian. More than 12 million of the Christian immigrants came from Mexico, the report said Thursday.

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