The polls and headlines say it repeatedly: Evangelicals overwhelmingly support Donald J. Trump for president.
But now, a group of more than 75 evangelical leaders has released a declaration saying that those polls and headlines do not speak for them. The group includes African-American, Asian, Hispanic and white evangelical Christians, and it says that the news media and the polls are overlooking nonwhite evangelicals.
Nonwhites make up about a quarter of evangelical Protestants in the United States, according to a study released in 2015 by the Pew Research Center. They are a growing segment of evangelical Christianity in the United States, and they can be found worshiping in their own ethnic churches and as part of racially mixed congregations.
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