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March 08, 2012

Newsday: Study sees changing face of religion in U.S.

by Bart Jones
Newsday

 Decades of immigration to the United States have sharply reduced the nation's Protestant majority -- from two-thirds of the population in the 1960s to about half today, according to a study released Thursday.

Growing numbers of Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and others account for the change, according to the "Faith on the Move" study by the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

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