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American adults are highly mobile, moving from state to state for work, marriage or to retire with an ocean view. This mobility affects their spiritual lives, forcing churchgoers to find a new place to worship and influencing how they choose it, according to a new Pew Research Center report on church hunting.
Half of U.S. adults (49 percent) have looked for a new house of worship at least once, and a geographic move is the most common reason for their search, the survey found. One-third of Americans (34 percent) said a geographic move led them to look for a new faith community, compared to 11 percent citing marriage or divorce.
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