One-quarter of U.S. adults (24%) say their faith has become stronger because of the coronavirus pandemic, while just 2% say their faith has become weaker. A poll commissioned by The Iona Institute found 18pc of Ireland people are praying more during the lockdown and 27pc have tuned into religious services.
The latest Pew Research Center survey looks at Americans’ religious faith during the covid-19 pandemic as the vast majority of congregations have closed regular worship services to the public.
The majority say their faith hasn’t changed much (47%) or that the question isn’t applicable because they were not religious to begin with (26%).
Christians are more likely than other religious groups in this analysis to say their faith has grown stronger as a result of the pandemic, a feeling that is reported by 56% of Protestants in the historically black tradition, as well as by four-in-ten evangelicals (42%) and roughly one-quarter of Catholics (27%) and mainline Protestants (22%).
