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Michael Lipka

@MikeLipka

Associate Director @pewjournalism, Boston sports fan.

 Washington, DC
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Joined September 2010
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Simon and Garfunkel were right, it turns out. Americans are more likely to get local news about weather than any other topic: youtu.be/5biEjyXNa2o?si=551m…
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More US churches sue to challenge COVID-19 restrictions: apnews.com/7d2933ca919f33aa8…
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Older people are more likely to live alone in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world: pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20…

Older people are more likely to live alone in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world

In the United States, 27% of adults ages 60 and older live alone, compared with 16% of adults in the 130 countries and territories studied.

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Pope’s Amazon document due Wednesday amid married priest row: apnews.com/bb9ad757e6a6f73e7…
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Brazil under Bolsonaro has message for teenagers: Save sex for marriage nytimes.com/2020/01/26/world…
Brazil Under Bolsonaro Has Message for Teenagers: Save Sex for Marriage (Published 2020)

Brazil Under Bolsonaro Has Message for Teenagers: Save Sex for Marriage (Published 2020)

Brazil’s minister for women and families, an evangelical pastor, formulated a new abstinence campaign in consultation with a religious group. Critics say the move blurs the church-state line.

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Tragedies deepen Jewish-Muslim bonds to fight hate crimes: apnews.com/53cda15b218a4ace8…
Tragedies deepen Jewish-Muslim bonds to fight hate crimes

Tragedies deepen Jewish-Muslim bonds to fight hate crimes

NEW YORK (AP) — Muslim groups helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue recover after a gunman killed 11 people there, one year ago this week.

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Italian populist mixes religious symbols with his politics: apnews.com/ef2b2fb43ed645c3a…
Italian populist mixes religious symbols with his politics

Italian populist mixes religious symbols with his politics

ROME (AP) — Matteo Salvini slipped the rosary out of his pocket right before Premier Giuseppe Conte began his speech to Parliament.

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Orbán deploys Christianity with a twist to tighten grip in Hungary: theguardian.com/world/2019/j…
Orbán deploys Christianity with a twist to tighten grip in Hungary

Orbán deploys Christianity with a twist to tighten grip in Hungary

Hungary’s far-right leader using Christian message to justify his immigration policy

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After Disagreements Over LGBT Clergy, U.S. Methodists Move Closer To Split: npr.org/2019/06/26/736344079…

After Disagreements Over LGBTQ Clergy, U.S. Methodists Move Closer To Split

Methodists around the U.S. have been engaged in tense discussions over the future of their church. "We are in an untenable situation," Bishop Thomas Bickerton told delegates at a recent meeting.

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As Pope Francis champions migrants, some cardinals court the far right: nytimes.com/2019/06/22/world…
As Pope Francis Champions Migrants, Some Cardinals Court the Far Right (Published 2019)

As Pope Francis Champions Migrants, Some Cardinals Court the Far Right (Published 2019)

Clerics who see the pontiff as dangerously inclusive have been lending public support — and the church’s imprimatur — to anti-migration politicians like Italy’s Matteo Salvini.

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Vatican rejects gender change to alarm of LGBT Catholics, via @AP: apnews.com/cb94b41d1d8046ddb…
Vatican rejects gender change to alarm of LGBT Catholics

Vatican rejects gender change to alarm of LGBT Catholics

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican issued an official document Monday rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual "complementarity" of men and women to...

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An interesting look behind the curtain at what it sometimes takes to get from raw data to a published report. It's not always a straight path: medium.com/pew-research-cent…
What happens when a survey estimate doesn’t match a known benchmark

What happens when a survey estimate doesn’t match a known benchmark

From time to time, data collected through surveys doesn’t match sources that are widely acknowledged as accurate.

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Conservatives want Catholic bishops to denounce pope as heretic: reuters.com/article/us-pope-…
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Poland Bashes Immigrants, but Quietly Takes Christian Ones: nyti.ms/2TzB4z9
Poland Bashes Immigrants, but Quietly Takes Christian Ones (Published 2019)

Poland Bashes Immigrants, but Quietly Takes Christian Ones (Published 2019)

The far-right government rails against accepting foreigners. But facing a labor crisis, the country has opened the door to record numbers of mostly Christian newcomers.

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Progressive politician tests appetite for less religious Poland: reuters.com/article/us-polan…
Progressive politician tests appetite for less religious Poland

Progressive politician tests appetite for less religious Poland

Robert Biedron, the founder of a new progressive party in Poland, believes ties between the state and the Catholic Church in one of Europe's most devout nations are "pathological" and need to be...

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United Methodists confront possible split over LGBT issues: apnews.com/3a2684b7372b41d78…
United Methodists confront possible split over LGBT issues

United Methodists confront possible split over LGBT issues

The United Methodist Church's top legislative assembly convenes Sunday for a high-stakes, three-day meeting likely to determine whether America's second-largest Protestant denomination will fracture...

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Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Woman Defies Rabbis and Runs Left: nytimes.com/2019/02/05/world…
Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Woman Defies Rabbis and Runs Left (Published 2019)

Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Woman Defies Rabbis and Runs Left (Published 2019)

Seeing herself as a voice for the “new Haredim,” Michal Zernowitski hopes secular Labor voters will give her a chance.

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Pakistan upholds acquittal of woman in blasphemy case: apnews.com/3cf437e7f39845a0b…
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81% of Catholic Republicans favor expanding the wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. 91% of Catholic Democrats oppose it: pewrsr.ch/2CKpmLT
Like Americans overall, U.S. Catholics are sharply divided by party

Like Americans overall, U.S. Catholics are sharply divided by party

On a number of issues, Catholic partisans often express opinions more in line with their political parties' positions than with their church's teachings.

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Texas GOP dispute pits religious freedom against claims of ‘stealth jihad’: religionnews.com/2018/12/11/…
Texas GOP dispute pits religious freedom against claims of ‘stealth jihad’

Texas GOP dispute pits religious freedom against claims of ‘stealth jihad’

FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS) — The appointment of a Muslim doctor to a county's party leadership has fractured the Republicans of Tarrant County.

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