{"id":133207,"date":"2022-09-19T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/christians-in-the-u-s-are-on-their-way-to-becoming-a-minority"},"modified":"2022-09-19T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T09:58:10","slug":"christians-in-the-u-s-are-on-their-way-to-becoming-a-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/christians-in-the-u-s-are-on-their-way-to-becoming-a-minority","title":{"rendered":"Christians in the U.S. are on their way to becoming a minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illustrated | Getty ImagesAmericans are mostly a Christian people. That might not always be the case.A new report from the Pew Research Center says that Christians could someday soon no longer be a majority in this country. Instead, projections show that their numbers could decline to &#8220;between a little more than half (54 percent) and just above one-third (35 percent) of all Americans by 2070.&#8221; The study&#8217;s authors are careful to say that this decline isn&#8217;t inevitable &#8212; but the trend lines are fairly apparent. &#8220;With each generation, progressively fewer adults retain the Christian identity they were raised with,&#8221; they write, &#8220;which in turn means fewer parents are raising their children in Christian households.&#8221; Why is Christianity in decline? And what will it mean for America&#8217;s future? Here&#8217;s everything you need to know:Is this report a surprise?Not really. Report after report over the years has shown a decline in America&#8217;s Christian population. Last year, Pew reported that 63 percent of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are mostly a Christian people. That might not always be the case. A new report from the Pew Research Center says that Christians could someday soon no longer be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,291],"tags":[253,69,55],"class_list":["post-133207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-religion","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}