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The inexorable drop in U.S. church attendance is not just a matter of concern for religious believers, but for everyone, a new report suggests.
With its well-earned reputation for being one of the more religious countries in the world, the United States has experienced an alarming dip in religiosity over the last decade, with only Islam, Hinduism, and “other religions” being the exceptions to the rule.
As Breitbart News has reported, the hardest hit religious group is Christianity—especially mainline Christianity and Catholicism—which have fallen 3.4 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively, according to a 2015 study by the Pew Research Center.
While these statistics surely trouble people of faith, their broader effects spell problems for society at large, a new report argues, since the benefits of regular church attendance — both societal and personal — “are virtually impossible to dispute,” and include greater happiness, higher income and longer life expectancy.
Read More: Report: Declining Church Attendance Is Problem for Everybody, Not Just Believers
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