{"id":8658,"date":"2021-12-07T15:13:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/african-immigrants-in-u-s-more-religious-than-other-black-americans-and-more-likely-to-be-catholic\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:56:17","slug":"african-immigrants-in-u-s-more-religious-than-other-black-americans-and-more-likely-to-be-catholic","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2021\/12\/07\/african-immigrants-in-u-s-more-religious-than-other-black-americans-and-more-likely-to-be-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"African immigrants in U.S. more religious than other Black Americans, and more likely to be Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A parishioner who immigrated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo sings during Sunday service in Portland, Maine, in 2017. (Carl D. Walsh\/Portland Portland Press Herald\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In many ways, Black people in the United States are more religious<\/a>\u00a0than Americans of other races. This is especially true for immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, who tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean, according to a Pew Research Center survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For example, around half of African immigrants in the U.S. (54%) say they attend religious services at least weekly, compared with about three-in-ten U.S.-born (32%) and Caribbean-born (30%) Black adults. And about seven-in-ten African immigrants (72%) say religion is very important to them, compared with 59% of U.S.- and Caribbean-born Black adults who say this.<\/p>\n\n\n

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