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Yonat Shimron

Yonat Shimron is a reporter for the Religion News Service.

Poll: American’s Belief in God is Dropping

In the latest Gallup Poll, belief in God dipped to 81%, down 6 percentage points from 2017, and the lowest since Gallup first asked the question in 1944.

How Black people and Jews are bound together in ‘great replacement’ theory

The man authorities say opened fire in a Buffalo grocery store Saturday (May 14), killing 10 mostly Black shoppers, was an avowed white supremacist. But his agenda went far beyond Blacks.

New denomination urges United Methodists to walk out of the wilderness

week, emerging after decades of rancorous debate over the ordination and marriage of LGBTQ United Methodists. The liberal wing of the church would like to extend full rights to LGBTQ people; conservatives adamantly oppose it.

Synagogues forced to balance welcoming the stranger with protecting their own

In the aftermath of the ordeal and as antisemitic attacks are on the rise in the U.S., many security experts say protecting synagogue buildings and other Jewish institutions may mean reinterpreting the commandment — what Jews call the “mitzvah” — to welcome the stranger.

Book explores how a diverse Jewish neighborhood responded to a horrific hate crime

In his new book, ‘Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood,’ Mark Oppenheimer takes a probing look at how a neighborhood of 13,000 Jews coped in the aftermath of the tragedy.

Study: Attendance hemorrhaging at small and midsize US congregations

The Faith Communities Today survey finds that half of the country’s congregations had 65 or fewer people in attendance on any given weekend, a drop from a median attendance level of 137 people in 2000.

Young evangelicals are leaving church. LGBTQ bias may be driving them away.

As white evangelical denominations double down on their opposition to equality, many younger evangelicals, gay and straight, are voting with their feet.

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