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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal leads guests in prayer last month at the Story County GOP breakfast at Oakwood Church in Ames, Iowa. (Photo by Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n\n

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a newly declared Republican candidate for president, is hoping to attract support<\/a> from conservative evangelical Christian voters. Jindal himself is a Catholic<\/a>, and, as the son of immigrants from Hindu-majority India, was raised in the Hindu faith.<\/p>\n\n

Jindal\u2019s personal religious journey<\/a> is a relatively rare one in the United States. In fact, four-in-five Americans raised as Hindus continue to identify as Hindus as adults (80%); no other major religious group has a higher retention rate<\/a>, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. And none<\/em> of the more than 35,000 Americans in the survey converted from Hinduism to Catholicism as Jindal did.<\/p>\n\n

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A 2012 Pew Research survey of Asian Americans<\/a> found that, among Indian Americans, 18% are Christian, including 5% who are Catholics. Half (51%) of Indian Americans are Hindus. Overall, Hindus remain less than 1% of the U.S. adult population, although their ranks have grown somewhat in recent years.<\/p>\n\n

Jindal and fellow GOP candidate Jeb Bush are Catholic converts in America at a time when there are more than six times<\/a> as many Catholic adults who have left the faith as there are people who have converted to Catholicism. Nearly 13% of Americans have left Catholicism after being raised Catholic, while just 2% have become Catholics after being raised in another faith (or no faith).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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