The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas (original) (raw)
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January 12, 1980
Publication:
Location:
Galveston, Texas
Issue Date:
Saturday, January 12, 1980
Page:
9
Extracted Article Text (OCR)
Many teenagers never read Bible WASHINGTON (UPI) Nearly every American home has a Bible, but a new survey says one-fourth of the nation's teenagers never read it. The latest Gallup Youth Survey showed that only one teenager in 10 reads the Bible daily. The survey was published in the current addition of "Emerging Trends," from Gallup's Princeton Religion Research Center. Nearly one-fourth of the teenagers surveyed said they read the Bible at least once a week, but Gallup officials said that number may be somewhat misleading since it may well include those teens who read the Bible in the course of a church service. The figure of 10 percent who say they read the Bible daily compares with about 50 percent of young men and women who read a newspaper every day.
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