Religion News Service
USA, September 1, 2004: (RNS) Most Protestant ministers expressed little familiarity with the key beliefs of a number of non-Protestant religious groups, a survey has found. The findings by Ellison Research, a marketing research company in Phoenix, were first reported in the September/October edition of Facts & Trends, a magazine published by LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. More than half were familiar with related faiths, such as Catholicism and Judaism, but just 28 percent with Buddhism, 27 percent with Hinduism and a scant 5 percent with Sikhism The survey was based on a sample of 700 Protestant minsters in 50 states.