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The Armenians in Greece acquired the character of a community after the 1920s, when 70,000 to 80,000 survivors of the Armenian genocide fled to Greece. Today, emigration to North America has diminished the Armenian population of Greece. The number now counts for roughly 20,000–35,000 Greco-Armenians. [15]
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
Church of Greece – 10 million [268] Serbian Orthodox Church – 8–12 million [268] [271] Bulgarian Orthodox Church – 8–10 million [citation needed] Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople – 5.45 million [268] [272] Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch – 4.3 million [268] Georgian Orthodox Church – 3.5 million [citation needed]
Greece: 1.35: 90% Conversion ... Christianity was the fastest growing religion in the world with 30,360,000 new adherents in 2006. This was followed by Islam with ...
Buddhism is thinly spread throughout Europe, and the fastest growing religion in recent years [114] [115] with about 3 million adherents. [ 116 ] [ 117 ] In Kalmykia , Tibetan Buddhism is prevalent.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government is speeding up its timetable to legalize same-sex marriage despite growing opposition from the powerful Orthodox Church.
A Pew Research Center Study shows that 10% of all Europeans could be members of the Muslim faith by 2050.
The percentage of Christians in Turkey, home to an historically large and influential Eastern Orthodox community, fell from 19% in 1914 to 2.5% in 1927, [20] due to genocide, [21] demographic upheavals caused by the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, [22] and the emigration of Christians to foreign countries (mostly in Europe and ...