Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich, a former altar boy who grew up to be an abortion opponent who backs the death penalty, is expected to throw his hat in the 2016 presidential race on Tuesday (July 21).

Here are five faith facts about Kasich:

1. He started out Catholic, and the faith is “always going to be a part of me.”

In one of his two books about faith, values and politics, Kasich, 63, describes growing up as “a card-carrying Catholic” child of immigrants in “working-class church-abiding” McKees Rocks, Pa.

Kasich writes: “I drifted away from religion as a young adult. Then I looked up one day, and there was a huge hole in my life where God and religion had been.”

He turned back to faith after his parents were killed by a drunken driver. His 2010 book, “Every Other Monday,” gets its name from the biweekly Bible study he’s attended for two decades.

The book was panned by Publishers Weekly, which called Kasich’s approach to Scripture “therapeutic” and concluded, “The Christianity that emerges from these pages is tame and has nothing profound to say.”

2. He “doesn’t find God in church.”

Instead, Kasich writes: “He’s with me wherever I happen to be. I go to church because that’s what you do. I find God in the stories of the Bible, in the random acts of kindness I see every day, in the choices I make and the ways I interact.”

It’s the painters, poets, and performers of the world who take their lives. Sylvia Plath. Robin Willams. But not Phil.

Phil was at the top of his class in seminary. He was the prototypical strong alpha male leader. He earned a PhD and wore a suit and tie and boots, for God’s sake. He wasn’t weak. He was a responsible respectable adult. He wasn’t the flaky, flighty creative type. The man couldn’t sing on key and didn’t even doodle!

“People like Phil just don’t do this,” a pastor friend of his recently told me.

Yes, they do. Soon, we’ll have the data to prove it. And that will save lives.

Business Insider posted this video showing how Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have spread over the last few thousand years. It’s truly remarkable to see how these religions have spread across the globe.

In the beginning of the video and around 3000 BCE, Hinduism took root in the Indus River Valley near India.

According to the video, around 1000 BCE, the Israelites conquered Canaan.