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Black Americans are more religious than the U.S. population as a whole. About 97% of adult Black Americans believe in God or a higher power (compared to 90% of American adults generally), 59% consider religion "very important" in their lives, and 54% consider belief in God necessary to be moral and have good values.
May 12, 2015 · Christians remain by far the largest religious group in the United States, but the Christian share of the population has declined markedly. In the past seven years, the percentage of adults who describe themselves as Christians has dropped from 78.4% to 70.6%. Once an overwhelmingly Protestant nation, the U.S. no longer has a Protestant majority.
List of new religious movements. A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.
Denominations of Roman Catholic tradition. Apostolic Catholic Church. Apostles of Infinite Love. Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church. Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church. Palmarian Christian Church. Philippine Independent Church. Traditionalist Mexican-American Catholic Church. Venezuelan Catholic Apostolic Church.
With about 1.79 million members in 1965, it had grown to 2.54 million by 1980, and 4.42 million in 2000. This was largely the result of intense missionary activity by the church throughout the United States. There has also been a notable rise in membership in two Eastern Orthodox bodies.
Washington National Cathedral (Episcopal Church in the United States) at D.C. Gay Pride (2014) In 2003, Gene Robinson was the first non-celibate openly gay person ordained as a bishop in documented Christian history. Various Christian denominations do not consider homosexuality or transgender identity to be sins.
Statistically, Eastern Orthodox Christians are among the wealthiest Christian denominations in the United States, and they also tend to be better educated than most other religious groups in America, in the sense that they have a high number of graduate (68%) and post-graduate degrees (28%) per capita. Oriental Orthodox Christianity
