http://www.pewforum.org/This section highlights up-to-date information on the Forum's activity.en-usCopyright: (C) Copyright 2009 The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. All rights reserved.info@pewforum.org (PewForum Info)info@pewforum.org (PewForum Info)60http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.pewforum.org/uploadedImages/_content/defaultPublicationThumb(1).gifhttp://www.pewforum.org/Wed, 16 May 2012 16:24:24 GMTWed, 16 May 2012 16:24:24 GMTThu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTFrom the perspective of the nation’s professional prison chaplains, America’s state penitentiaries are a bustle of religious activity.http://www.pewforum.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/Pew-Forum-Releases-New-50-State-Survey-of-Prison-Chaplains.aspxWed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTA new national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life finds signs of public uneasiness with the mixing of religion and politics. The number of people who say there has been too much religious talk by political leaders stands at an all-time high since the Pew Research Center began asking the question more than a decade ago. And most Americans continue to say that churches and other houses of worship should keep out of politics. http://www.pewforum.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/New-Pew-Research-Center-Survey---More-Americans-See-“Too-Much”-Religious-Talk-by-Politicians.aspxThu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMTA new report on religion and international migration by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that Christians comprise nearly half – an estimated 106 million, or 49% – of the world’s 214 million international migrants. According to the study, Faith on the Move: The Religious Affiliation of International Migrants, Muslims make up the second-largest group – almost 60 million, or 27%. The remaining quarter are a mix of Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, adherents of other faiths and the religiously unaffiliated (those who identify as atheists and agnostics or say they have no particular religion).http://www.pewforum.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/New-Pew-Forum-Study-Explores-Religious-Makeup-of-Immigrants.aspxThu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT With Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, Jr. vying for the GOP presidential nomination, a popular Broadway musical about Mormons, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) running an extensive television campaign featuring ordinary Mormons, many say that America is in the midst of a “Mormon moment.” But how do Mormons themselves, who make up nearly 2% of the U.S. public, feel about the media spotlight, the election campaign and their place in America?  http://www.pewforum.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/New-Poll--Pew-Forum-on-Religion---Public-Life-Surveys-Mormons-in-America.aspxFri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMTIn a 10 a.m. EST conference call for journalists on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life will discuss the findings from a major new comprehensive survey, Mormons in America: Certain in Their Beliefs but Uncertain of Their Place in Society.http://www.pewforum.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/New-Pew-Forum-Survey-of-Mormons-in-America.aspxMon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMTWith 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. The study finds that there are 2.18 billion Christians of all ages in more than 200 countries around the world, representing nearly a third of the estimated 6.9 billion 2010 global population. Christians are so geographically widespread that no single continent or region can indisputably claim to be the center of global Christianity.http://www.pewforum.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/New-Pew-Forum-Study-Estimates-Global-Christian-Population-at-2-18-Billion.aspxThu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMTIn a noon EST conference call for journalists on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life will discuss the findings contained in its new study, Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population, which offers the most current and fully sourced estimates of the worldwide Christian population as of 2010.http://www.pewforum.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/New-Pew-Forum-Report-Estimates-the-Size-and-Distribution-of-the-Worldwide-Christian-Population.aspxWed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMTA new national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that white evangelical Protestants — a key element of the GOP electoral base — are more inclined than the public as a whole to view Mormonism as a non-Christian faith. And this view is linked to opinions about Mitt Romney: Republicans who say Mormonism is not a Christian religion are less likely to support Romney for the GOP nomination and offer a less favorable assessment of him generally.http://www.pewforum.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/New-Poll-on-Religion-and-the-Election-2012.aspxMon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMTThe number of organizations engaged in religious lobbying or religion-related advocacy in Washington, D.C., has increased roughly fivefold in the past four decades, from fewer than 40 in 1970 to more than 200 today, according to a new study on religious advocacy groups released today by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life.http://www.pewforum.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/New-Pew-Forum-Report-Analyzes-Washington’s-Religious-Advocacy-Community.aspxThu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTThe world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to a new, comprehensive report released today by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life on the size, distribution and growth of the Muslim population. The study is part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, an effort funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John Templeton Foundation to analyze religious change and its impact on societies around the world. http://www.pewforum.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/New-Pew-Forum-Report-Projects-Global-Muslim-Population.aspx