General Article With high levels of prayer, US is an outlier among wealthy nations

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By Jeff Diamant

May 2nd is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, a day Congress set aside in 1952 for Americans to turn ‘to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups and as individuals’. But many Americans pray every day – not just on the Day of Prayer. Indeed, out of 102 countries examined for frequency of prayer by Pew Research Center, the US is unique in that it has both a high level of wealth ($56,000 per-capita gross domestic product in 2015) and a high level of dail...

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