Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor, Udit Narayan on Son's Wedding: I Told Aditya If Something Happens Later, Don't Blame the Parents, IPL 2020: Rishabh Pant Recovers from Injury, Likely to Play Against KXIP, Apple Watch Saves 61-year-old Indian Man's Life, Tim Cook Wishes Him Speedy Recovery, Apple Watch Series 6 Review: The Benchmark Smartwatch Now Also Gets Blood Oxygen Tracking, Sidharth Shukla Steps Out of Bigg Boss 14 House, Pictures Go Viral on Social Media, Amrita Rao Confirms Pregnancy, Shares First Photo of Her Baby Bump, Neha Dhupia & Angad Bedi Enjoy Romantic Vacations In Maldives. A previous Pew Research Center survey found that health concerns about the coronavirus outbreak are much higher among Black and Hispanic adults than among white adults, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that people from racial and ethnic minority groups are at increased risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19. During a year of great upheaval in the U.S., what are Americans hearing from religious leaders? A US district court judge denied a motion for a preliminary injunction Friday from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn to exempt its parishes from New York state’s restrictions on religious gatherings in coronavirus hotspots. At the time the survey was conducted (July 13 to 19), only 13% said their house of worship should be open to the public just as it was before the outbreak.1. More than half (54%) say they have donated the same amount of money they normally would have, and 17% say they do not usually donate.

Most states have religious exemptions to COVID-19 social distancing rules. In fact, among U.S. adults who recently watched religious services online or on TV, a larger share say that they intend to watch virtual services less often (28%) rather than more often (19%) after the pandemic passes.

Among those who attend religious services, mainline Protestants and members of the historically Black Protestant tradition are more likely than Catholics and evangelical Protestants to say they think their congregations should be closed. Attorney Seth Farber, representing the state, argued that the COVID-19 restrictions intended to target areas where infections were rising and were not meant to discriminate against religious institutions.

Attending and watching religious services in the age of the coronavirus, Americans Oppose Religious Exemptions From Coronavirus-Related Restrictions, 1. Four-in-ten say they have watched only their own house of worship’s services. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. Positivity rates in the rest of the state have been around 1%. The diocese also insisted its churches were subjected to more severe restrictions than other essential businesses.

Protestants in the historically Black tradition and Hispanic Catholics, meanwhile, are more evenly divided between those who are confident it is safe to return to in-person services and those who are not.

There is a large overlap between these groups; the vast majority of those who say they attended in-person religious services in the last month also described themselves as regular attenders last year (84%). By Virginia Villa. The survey also finds little indication that the coronavirus outbreak will result in large-scale changes in Americans’ religious service habits in the future. But still, among evangelicals who typically attend, fewer than half (44%) say they have gone recently, while far more (80%) are watching services virtually. Just 6% say their congregation is open to the public in the same way it was before the coronavirus outbreak. About half (53%) say they will watch services online at about the same rate as they did before the pandemic. By comparison, fewer U.S. adults say they have asked for help from others during the coronavirus outbreak. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. For instance, Democrats and those who lean Democratic are substantially more likely than Republicans and adults who lean toward the GOP to say they have heard sermons that expressed support for the recent Black Lives Matter protests (59% vs. 29%) and the importance of voting (52% vs. 33%). Even among those who say they attend services at least monthly in more normal times, just one-third report that they attended in person during the month preceding the survey, but a far larger share (72%) say they have watched religious services online or on TV in the last month.2.