🇺🇸 **15,000 churches could close this year amid religious shift in U.S.**
"_The decline of traditional brick-and-mortar churches comes as a record number of Americans (29%) are identifying as religiously unaffiliated, and as 62% identify as Christians — down from 78% in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center._"
🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/10/03/us-churches-close-religious-shift-christians.