Surveys

Even if members are politically active and many leaders are often outspoken about issues and candidates they support, most congregations make great efforts to keep politics out of the church when they gather.

ECFA reports that 70 percent of its member churches struggle to keep up with inflation.

Ministries expand to reach the 54 percent of churchgoers who say they view online pornography.

The former president receives the most support from Pentecostal, Baptist, and nondenominational leaders.

Survey: Majority Asian churches are half as likely to have leaders under 30.

Young, evangelical, and African American churchgoers ask the most.

Over two years of new state-level restrictions, younger Christians, Hispanics, and megachurch attendees are more likely to say their congregation supports their community’s alternative to abortion clinics.

Levels of support for LGBTQ relationships have plateaued among Protestant clergy.

Studies find that while less than a third of Americans trust church leaders, 90 percent of Filipinos do.

Their pastors are mostly evangelical, sometimes bivocational, and eager for additional workers and funding to better serve their communities.