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Number of Nonbelievers Rising in US

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(March 9) - A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.
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2009-03-09 00:15:36

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A wide-ranging survey on religious beliefs in America finds that the number of respondents saying they had no religion rose to fifteen percent from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990. The American Religious Identification Survey also discovers that the percentage of Christians in the country has gone down.