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Americans continue to place little confidence in the nation's major institutions, with their average confidence levels nearing record lows. Confidence in newspapers and in organized religion both dropped to their lowest levels yet.

Provo-Orem, Utah, is the most religious of 189 U.S. metropolitan areas Gallup surveyed in 2012 -- 77% of its residents are very religious. Burlington, Vt., and Boulder, Colo., are the least religious, with 17% very religious.

Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama by 54% to 37% among very religious voters in Gallup's latest five-day Daily tracking average. Obama leads by 61% to 30% among those who are nonreligious.

Black Americans have become more liberal on abortion rights, but they remain less so than is the case among Democrats overall.

Very religious white Americans are more than twice as likely to identity with the Republican Party, while nonreligious whites are more likely to identify with the Democratic Party. This relationship is also evident to a lesser degree among ...

Americans' political identities are powerful drivers of views on healthcare, making it hard to change public opinion on healthcare-related policy issues.

U.S. Hispanics who are Protestant are more religious (60% "very religious") than those who are Catholic (43%). The percentage of Catholic Hispanics has decreased in recent years.

The World Economic Forum published a new essay today, written by the Executive Director for The Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, Dalia Mogahed. Mogahed explores the factors shaping women's economic empowerment in the Middle East and recommends ...

The three remaining states with GOP primaries this month -- New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida -- present very different religious profiles, and therefore different religious contexts for the Republican candidates' campaigns.

The vast majority of U.S. children attend public school, but parents' choices of public, private, parochial or home-school are related to parents' education level, income and religion.