Sunday, 23 February 2014

Religion in the USA


Christianity is the most popular religion in the United States, with around 73% of asked Americans identifying themselves as Christian in 2012. This is down from 86% in 1990, and slightly lower than 78.6% in 2001. About 62% of those questioned claim to be members of a church congregation. In the mid-1990s the United States had the largest Christian population on earth, with 224 million Christians.

Christianity was introduced to the Americas as it was first colonized by Europeans beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. Today most Christian churches are Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, or Roman Catholic. Immigration further increased Christian numbers.


One of the many Christian groups across America is Catholic Men’s Fellowship of California is a ministry for today’s Catholic man. It helps to establish new parish men’s faith groups, and it serves existing men’s groups. CMF sponsors conferences, retreats, leadership days and other events throughout the state that are especially for men. It provides resources and assistance to parish men’s groups. CMF is not a fraternal, service or a social organization; it is a lay apostolate responding to the call for a new evangelization to enrich each Catholic man in his journey of faith. Their purpose is to encourage men to become daily followers of Christ. To also help men renew their minds and transform their lives and hearts. They have seven principles that they live by claim that every mans life can be and should be lived accourdiung too.

This group is different to normal Catholic group as they only look at the issues that males have in society and claim that man was first created by God - implying that man should take priority in having their lifes sorted.


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