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Recent stats on fewer Protestants, female administrators, and religious book sales.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 10/01/2004 12:00AM

40,000	33%	47%
Iraqi Christians who fled the country in the 10 days following the August 1 church bombings, according to Iraq's minister for displacement and migration.	White evangelicals who back embryonic stem-cell research.	White evangelical Protestants who say it's improper for Catholic leaders to deny Communion to politicians who defy church teachings on abortion and related issues (35% say it's okay).
800,000	26%	72%
Number of Iraqi Christians who stayed behind.	White evangelicals who said this in 2002.	Catholics who say it's improper.
	52%
	Americans overall who say this (up from 43% in 2002).

Sources: Asharq Al-Awsat, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Related Elsewhere:

Sources: Asharq Al-Awsat (Arabic) another report in English, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

October 2004, Vol. 48, No. 10

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