Barna 2025: Christians committed to the Bible stand out for their generosity and social impact
Washington, November 11, 2025 – A large study, conducted by the Barna Group in partnership with the American Bible Society, reveals a clear difference in social engagement and generosity between American Christians with a regular Bible practice and others. The “State of the Bible 2025” report, published in November, is based on a representative panel of several thousand adults interviewed...
The Millennials and Gen Z generation are boosting Bible reading in the United States. The major study, officially published on November 8, 2025, reveals an unprecedented jump in the weekly reading rate, going from less than 30% to almost 50% for young adults in just one year.
Since 2010, the practice of Bible reading among young people has shown a continuous decline, reaching its lowest level in 2024. The latest annual barometer, conducted by Barna...
Red Alert: Young Christian Women Are Abandoning the Faith Massively
A shocking study from Barna Research reveals that today, 38% of Gen Z women say they have no religion, surpassing their male counterparts for the first time. This historic reversal challenges churches on their ability to retain young believers.
The figures are clear and reverse decades of religious trends. According to the Barna study of 2,000 young Americans, women aged 18 to 24 now have the...
An international study, published in August 2025 in the journal Nature Communications and relayed by Pew Research Center, highlights a universal sequence of religious decline, called "Participation - importance - Belinging" (GDP). This sequence describes the way in which participation in public religious practices receives first, before the personal importance of religion and finally official affiliation decline.
Out of more than 100 countries studied, the researchers note that:
The share of people officially affiliated to a...
Gospel and Christian music in the United States experienced in 2025 a spectacular progression, confirmed by the very recent official Luminate Midyear report published on September 12, 2025. This musical genre takes a place of choice on streaming platforms and stands out as one of the most dynamic of the market in this structuring year for the music industry.
In the first half of 2025, global listening to Gospel and Christian music reached 2.5 trillions,...
For the first time in decades, American youth radically transformed the evangelical religious landscape. According to the latest data from the Barna Group published on September 4, 2025, generation Z (13-28 years) and Millennials (29-44 years) are now the main engines of the attendance of Protestant and Evangelical Churches in the United States.
An unprecedented generational reversal
The report opens with an inversion of trends: while baby boomers and "Elders" have long been the majority of...
On August 28, 2025, the results of an Ifop investigation dedicated to Protestantism in France highlighted a deep renewal of this confession throughout the territory. This national survey, carried out under the direction of Sébastien Fath (CNRS) and Jean-Paul Willaime specialists, reveals a significant recomposition within the Protestant population, mainly carried by the dynamics of the evangelical current.
The study attests that 53 % of Protestants practicing under 35 now favor evangelical identification, establishing this...
Rise of confidence in evangelical churches in Brazil: figures, context and current issues
In August 2025, a survey conducted by the DataFolha Institute and sponsored by the Brazil Association (OAB) highlighted the notable progression of the confidence in the evangelical churches among the Brazilian population. According to this survey, 31 % of those questioned say today having "very confident" in evangelical churches. This advance is significant: twenty years ago, confidence in these religious institutions was...
