Poll: Church membership continues to decline in 21st century

 

Poll: Church membership continues to decline in 21st century

by Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service

Apr 1, 2021 ncr

Church membership in 2020 dropped to 47% of the more than 6,100 respondents to a Gallup Poll. It is the first time since the polling firm started measuring church membership in 1937 that a minority of adults said they belonged to a formal religious institution.