Has Gen Z’s Relationship With Religion Really Shifted? A New Chapter in Belief, by Katherine Matt

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that on May 17, in conjunction with America’s 250 birthday celebration, a prayer event will be held on the National Mall to “rededicate America as one nation under God.”

But who’s going to show up?

For much of the modern era, religious identification in the United States and other Western nations has steadily declined. Pew Research Center data show that the percentage of adults identifying as Christian dropped from 78% in 2007 to roughly 62% by 2025.

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Over the same period, the number of “nones”—people with no religious affiliation—climbed from about 16% to nearly 29% of the U.S. population.

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