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The following is the percentage of Christians and all religions in the U.S. territories as of 2015 (according to the ARDA): [62] Note that CIA World Factbook data differs from the data below. For example, the CIA World Factbook says that 99.3% of the population in American Samoa is religious.
Statistically, Eastern Orthodox Christians are among the wealthiest Christian denominations in the United States, [39] 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.
A Christian state is a country that recognizes a form of Christianity as its official religion and often has a state church (also called an established church), [1] which is a Christian denomination that supports the government and is supported by the government.
Protestantism in the United States by state (62 C) Christian radio stations in the United States by state (50 C) Christian schools in the United States by state or territory (51 C)
The region has been described as one of the most socially conservative across the United States due to a significant impact of Protestant Christianity on politics and culture. The region is known to have a higher church attendance , more evangelical Protestant denominations, and greater emphasis on traditional religious values compared to other ...
Christianity is the most widely professed religion, with the majority of Americans being Evangelicals, Mainline Protestants, or Catholics, [9] [10] although its dominance has declined in recent decades, and as of 2012 Protestants no longer formed a majority in the US. [11] The United States has the largest Christian and Protestant population in ...
The 1796 Treaty of Tripoli, which was ratified by the U.S. Senate and signed by President John Adams, explicitly states that “the government of the United States of America is not in any sense ...
Many of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the United States of America were settled in the 17th century by men and women, who, in the face of European religious persecution, refused to compromise passionately held religious convictions (largely stemming from the Protestant Reformation which began c. 1517) and fled Europe.