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Religious Americans are significantly more likely than less religious Americans to be sympathetic to the Israelis in the Middle East situation. Jews, Mormons, and Protestants give Israelis above-average support.

Three in four Americans consider the Bible to be God's word, with 28% saying it should be taken literally and 47% saying it is open to interpretation. Long-term biblical literalism has declined some, while a secular take on the Bible has become ...

Americans who oppose same-sex marriage are most likely to cite religion or the Bible as the reason. Overall, 53% of Americans say same-sex marriage should be legal, tying the record high, while 46% say it should not.

Mississippi is the most religious U.S. state, with almost six in 10 residents classified as "very religious." Vermont and New Hampshire are the least religious states, with fewer than one in four very religious residents.

Three in 10 Americans view the Bible as the literal word of God, similar to what Gallup has measured in the past two decades but down from the 1970s and 1980s. Close to half, 49%, view the Bible as the inspired word of God, but do not believe ...

More than 9 in 10 Americans say "yes" when asked the basic question "Do you believe in God?"; this is down only slightly from the 1940s, when Gallup first asked this question.

Very religious Americans are less likely to report that they smoke and are more likely to say they eat well and exercise regularly than those who are moderately religious or nonreligious. Nonreligious Americans have the worst health habits of ...

The states of the union differ remarkably in terms of their residents' religions. Non-Catholic Christians dominate in the South, while Catholics are more prevalent in the Middle Atlantic and New England, those with no religion in the Northeast ...

On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, new Gallup polling shows that only 39% of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution,” while a quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and another 36% don’t have ...

Despite Americans' entrenched economic worries, 72% believe the country will be better off four years from now. This seems tied to widespread confidence that Barack Obama will be an exceptional president -- one who is able to unify the country ...