New NCC Yearbook examines religious impact of immigration

This yearbook shows a snapshot of religion in the U.S. and Canada and how immigration has affected it. - - Donna Poisl

From Philip Jenks

2010 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches examines the impact of the New Immigrant Church

New York, February 12, 2010 -- Forty-five years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the profound impact of the "new immigration" on the religious landscape of the United States is still being measured.

A substantial number of immigrants since 1965 -- perhaps a majority -- have been Christians. Their influx into the United States and Canada, writes the Rev. Dr. Eileen W. Lindner, "has altered not only the demographic composition of Christianity in America but ... has expanded the variety of expressions of the faith itself."
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