Headline Roundup • April 16th, 2026
Gallup Poll Finds Religious Resurgence Among Young Men
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On Thursday, Gallup released a poll that found a religious resurgence among young men under 40.
The Details: According to Gallup, 42% of young men said religion is "very important," a figure that climbed from 28% in the last two years. Attendance of church or other houses of worship at least once a month rose seven points in the timespan as well, up to 40%. Still, religiosity among most Americans remains at historic lows, though women over 40 reported higher levels of religiosity than men in the same age group. The Gallup poll is based on 4,015 interviews with 295 men and 145 women under 30. Over 26,000 US adults were asked about church attendance and included 1,905 young men and 832 young women.
Key Passage: "The percentage of young men saying religion is very important to them is now similar to the percentage for men aged 30–49 and only slightly lower than for senior men," Gallup wrote. "Young women, by contrast, are now by far the least religious women. At 29% calling religion very important, women aged 18–29 trail the next-least religious group, 30- to 49-year-old women, by 18 points and are less than half as likely as senior women to say religion is very important."
For Context: Pollsters in recent years have agreed that religious decline in the US has stabilized, according to Gallup.
How the Media Covered It: Fox News (Right bias) reported that the growth in religiosity and church attendance is most apparent among young Republican men. The Washington Post (Lean Left bias) noted that in its December report, Pew Research (Center) attributed the narrowing gap in religiousness between young men and women to a declining religiousness in women, not an increase in the religiousness in men.
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America's young men are increasingly turning to religion and professing that it is taking a more central role in their lives, according to a new Gallup poll.
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