Sentences with phrase «american churchgoers»

Exceptions are made for Native American churchgoers, who are allowed by law to use peyote in prayer meetings, and members of a branch of a Brazilian - based church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who have won court battles for the right to use the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca in their religious rituals.

Few American churchgoers have heard endorsements from the pulpit in the past few months of this contentious presidential race, but when clergy members did speak out in church, far more favored Clinton than Trump, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

It is easy to get caught up in the pursuit of «success» as American churchgoers define it.

All African American churchgoers should stop, and take stock.

The fact that this movie arrives a year, almost to the day, after the massacre carried out by Dylann Roof against nine African - American churchgoers in Charleston, SC only adds to the intense emotions that Free State of Jones evokes.

For African American churchgoers, get out the vote efforts have been in effect in full force and from the pulpits of churches across the nation.

Not exact matches

Over 20 percent of Americans, half of them churchgoers, today practice the gnosis of astrology as a method of self - realization.

This is evident not only in the absence of black icons but also in the rejection by many black churchgoers of the term African - American.

One would hardly know from these collected documents that Americans were churchgoers; I caught them at church in only one casual allusion.

For years, various academic studies and news articles have reported what many churchgoers already know: most American congregations are segregated.

The megachurch phenomenon is, perhaps belatedly, on the minds of churchgoers and average Americans.

According to a new report by Gallup, Missipians, Mormons, and African Americans are the most frequent churchgoers in the nation:

And 43 % of Muslim Americans say they attend a mosque on a weekly basis, on par with the 45 % of US Christians who have described themselves as weekly churchgoers in recent surveys.

Support for Trump among white evangelicals tends to exacerbate the trends among Americans overall, with regular churchgoers, men, and older demographics more likely to skew Republican.