Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
More Americans say their faith has grown stronger amid the COVID-19 pandemic than citizens of other, comparable countries, according to a new survey.
However, that finding has more to do with the high share of U.S. adults who identify as religious than with the efforts of churches trying to keep people engaged, researchers said.
“Around the world you see a pretty clear trend that people who are already religious are considerably more likely than their secular counterparts to say that their faith has been strengthened” during the pandemic, said Neha Sahgal, an associate director of research at Pew Research Center. Because “religious Americans form a bigger share (of the population) than, say, religious Swedes or religious Danes,” the U.S., correspondingly, shows a larger increase in faith.
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