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Christianity, which originated in the Middle East during the 1st century AD, [27] is a significant minority religion within the region, characterized by the diversity of its beliefs and traditions, compared to Christianity in other parts of the Old World. Christians now make up approximately 5% of the Middle Eastern population, down from 13% in ...
Christianity (Hebrew: נצרות, romanized:Natsrút; Arabic: المسيحية, romanized:al-Masīḥiyya) is the third largest religion in Israel, after Judaism and Islam. At the end of 2022, Christians made up 1.9% of the Israeli population, numbering approximately 185,000. 75.8% of the Christians in Israel are Arab Christians.
In 2022 Muslims made up about 97.2% of the country's population, while Christians made up 2.1% of the country's population. [10] Half of the Christians, or 1.06% of the country's population, were Catholics (115,000 people). [11] A 2015 study estimated 6,500 Christian believers, from a Muslim background, were in the country (mainly Protestant). [12]
There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam. The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines. [11]
In 2022, the CIA World Factbook specified that of the citizen population (data do not include Lebanon's sizable Syrian and Palestinian refugee populations), 55.3% are Muslims (25.65% Sunni, 25.65% Shia, with smaller percentages of Alawites and Ismailis), 44.7% are Christians (mostly Maronites, and Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholics, Protestant ...
Of the total Christian population of 185,000 in Israel, about 80% are designated as Arabs, many of whom self-identify as Palestinian. [17] [14] [18] The majority (56%) of Palestinian Christians live in the Palestinian diaspora. [19] View of the Holy Sepulchre, East Jerusalem, Israeli-occupied West Bank
The demographics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region show a highly populated, culturally diverse region spanning three continents. As of 2022, the population was around 493 million. [1] The class, cultural, ethnic, governmental, linguistic and religious make-up of the region is highly variable.
Christian population growth is the population growth of the global Christian community. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were more than 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, more than three times as many as the 600 million recorded in 1910. However, this rate of growth is slower than the overall population growth ...