I believe in God. I believe in Jesus and Buddha and Mohammed and all those that were enlightened. I wouldn't say necessarily that I'm a strict Christian. I'm not sure I believe in heaven.

—Rock singer Sheryl Crow in an interview with the New York Postin September of 2005

A 2005 poll, conducted by Newsweek and Beliefnet, asked: "What is your current religion?"

Evangelical Protestant—33 percent
Non-Evangelical Protestant—25 percent
Roman Catholic—22 percent
Other Christian—5 percent
Jewish—1 percent
Muslim—1 percent
Other, non-Christian—3 percent
Atheist/Agnostic—6 percent
Religion undesignated—4 percent

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God has a way of turning the deepest pain into victory. Because Ethiopian Christians faithfully ministered to a convicted murderer in jail, God brought salvation to Mohammed Ahmed, who was convicted of killing an evangelist named Tulu on February 2, 2005….

Tulu was the fifth eldest child of eight, but suffered from an unidentified disease that made him physically weak and a slow learner. During ...

I believe in God. I just don't know if that God is Jehovah, Buddha or Allah.

—Actress Halle Berry

The movie Behind The Sun follows the story of Samir Majan, a young man born and raised a Muslim in the Middle East. After attending college in the United States, he has done the unthinkable: he has become a Christian. It's a costly decision for Samir, because few things are more offensive in the eyes of a Muslim family than Christian conversion. In this scene, Samir has come back home, and one of ...

Approximate number of practicing Christians in the U.K.—1 million

Approximate number of practicing Muslims there—750,000

According to a poll conducted in January 2006 by the Terror Free Tomorrow organization, humanitarian aid is a very effective way to improve how Muslim countries view the United States of America.

In May of 2003, research indicated that only 15 percent of people in Indonesia—the world's most populous Muslim nation—had a favorable view of the U.S. However, the country was later devastated by ...

At the age of 14, I began to question my father about the Nation of Islam—the religion I had been raised in. It had been my religion all of my life. My father did not give me satisfactory answers so, in my heart, I stopped believing in the Nation and in God. Now I no longer had a God.

My goal as an African-American Muslim had been to kill a white man by the age of 21. I vowed to kill gang-bangers—and ...

According to a May 2002 article in U.S. News & World Report, the percentage of those who call themselves Christians in the U.S. who say their impression of Islam is "somewhat favorable" or "very favorable": 34 percent.

Author and pastor John MacArthur recalls this story:

I was flying down to El Paso to do a men's conference. I was working on some thoughts and had my Bible open. I was sitting next to an Arab. He kept glancing over and looking at what I was doing.

Finally he said, "May I ask you a question? I am from Iran, and I am new in America. I see you have a Bible. I don't understand American religion. What is ...