Based on interviews conducted in English and Spanish with a representative sample of over 35,000 adults, the survey includes detailed information on religious affiliation and provides estimates of the size of religious groups that are as small as three-tenths of 1 percent of the adult population.

The Muslim and Mormon religions have gained increasing national visibility in recent years. Yet most Americans say they know little or nothing about either religion's practices, and large majorities say that their own religion is very different from Islam and the Mormon religion.

Hispanics are transforming the nation's religious landscape, especially the Roman Catholic Church, not only because of their growing numbers but also because they are practicing a distinctive form of Christianity.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life today unveiled Religion & Politics '08—a new online resource that features survey findings and religious biographies for both parties' major presidential candidates.

As Democrats try to win back one or both houses of Congress this November, they are increasingly employing the language of faith and morality to frame the issues, hearkening back to the 2004 GOP campaign and its appeal to "values voters."

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life today released the results of a 10-country survey of pentecostal and charismatic Christians, two large and fast-growing groups whose socially conservative views are impacting religion and politics worldwide.

John C. Green, one of the nation's foremost experts on the influence of religion on American politics, has joined the Washington staff of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and is available for interviews during this campaign and election season.

Mark O'Keefe is joining the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life as associate director, editorial. In this new position, Mark will serve as the Forum's daily news editor and oversee its website, pewforum.org.

This month marks the first anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged Florida woman whose medical condition led to an emotional public debate over end-of-life issues.

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled today that the adherents of a small religious group can continue, for now at least, to import and use an illegal drug in their worship services.

A unanimous Supreme Court today declined to rule on a New Hampshire abortion statute and instead instructed a federal appeals court to reconsider the statute's constitutionality.

By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court today upheld Oregon's assisted-suicide law, rejecting an attempt by the Bush administration to use a federal anti-drug law to prohibit doctors from helping terminally ill patients to end their own lives.

A federal district court judge ruled today that a Pennsylvania school board's decision to include intelligent design in the high school science curriculum was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, and American University's School of International Service are pleased to announce the launch of a new joint initiative: Islam in the Age of Globalization.

Leading experts and activists will gather for a special town hall meeting on Thursday, Oct. 6, to discuss the growing influence of America's evangelical Christian movement on international affairs and American foreign policy during the Bush administration.

A closely divided Supreme Court yesterday issued two decisions on the legality of Ten Commandments displays in public buildings and on public property.

A closely divided Supreme Court today issued two decisions on the legality of Ten Commandments displays in public buildings and on public property.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life announced today that Dr. John C. Green will join the Forum as a senior fellow in religion and American politics during the 2005-06 academic year.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life today released an analysis of the recent Supreme Court decision in Cutter v. Wilkinson.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), a federal law that aims to protect the religious freedom of inmates and others held in state and local institutions.