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March 31, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode

March 31, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode

Why religion is losing influence in American public life

6m 26s

In a new survey released by the Pew Research Center, 80 percent of respondents said religion’s role in public life is shrinking in America. That’s the highest proportion in two decades of asking the question. John Yang speaks with Gregory Smith, Pew’s associate director of research who helps coordinate domestic polling on religion, to learn more about what the results say.

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