Survey: Black Americans attend church and pray more often

FILE - In this Sunday, July 10, 2016 file photo, a parishioner at First Baptist Church, a predominantly African-American congregation, leaves after a worship service in Macon, Ga. According to a Pew study released on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, Black Americans attend church more regularly than Americans overall, and pray more often. Most of them attend churches that are predominantly Black -- yet many would like those congregations to become racially diverse. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)

FILE - In this Monday, June 1, 2020 file photo, Hanz Jouissance holds up a fist at the conclusion of a prayer vigil at the First AME church in Seattle, following protests over the weekend over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

FILE - In this Monday, July 20, 2020 file photo, the Rev. Rahsaan Hall, of the St. Paul AME Church in Cambridge, Mass., wears a mask which reads, "Register & Vote" outside the Statehouse in Boston, on a day when thousands across the country planned to walked off the job to protest systemic racism and economic inequality that has worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

FILE - In this Thursday, July 23, 2020 file photo, Faustina Bema, a candidate for Novice of the Sisters of the Holy Family, prays inside a chapel during a retreat at their Mother House in New Orleans. In the archdioceses of New Orleans and Chicago, top leaders are encouraging their schools to place a new emphasis on teaching about racial justice, as well as the history of Black Catholics. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

FILE - In this Saturday, June 6, 2020 file photo, Pastor Trevor Kinlock with Metropolitan Seventh-day Adventist Church, center, is prayed over as demonstrators protest in Washington, over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

FILE - In this Sunday, July 19, 2020 file photo, church parishioners sit apart socially distanced at a prayer vigil for racial justice at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Seattle. The vigil follows ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

FILE - In this Monday, July 11, 2016 file photo, Paul Bronson prays during a Black Lives Matter prayer vigil at First Baptist Church, a predominantly African-American congregation, in Macon, Ga. According to a Pew study released on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, Black Americans attend church more regularly than Americans overall, and pray more often. Most of them attend churches that are predominantly Black -- yet many would like those congregations to become racially diverse. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)

FILE - In this Sunday, July 10, 2016 file photo, parishioners clap during a worship service at the First Baptist Church, a predominantly African-American congregation, in Macon, Ga. There are two First Baptist Churches in Macon _ one black and one white. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)