Religious report

USA - A new report - Religion Among the Millennials - by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life indicates that more than one-quarter of Americans in the 18-29 age bracket have no religious affiliation or preference making them the least religious generation of those alive today - and perhaps ever in American history. Though the generation born after 1981 may be unaffiliated with traditional religions and churches, it appears their faith in the power of prayer and in God is likely as strong as those of previous generations in the same age grouping.

"If you think of religion primarily as a matter of whether people belong to a particular faith and attend the worship services of that faith ... then millennials are less religious than other recent generations," said associate director of research, Alan Cooperman. "But when it comes to measures not of belonging but of believing, they aren't so clearly less religious."