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This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .
Egypt hosts two major religious institutions. Al-Azhar Mosque, founded in 970 CE by the Fatimids as the first Islamic university in Egypt and the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria established in the middle of the 1st century by Saint Mark. [3] In Egypt, Muslims and Christians share a common national identity, ethnicity, race, culture, and ...
Map of major denominations and religions. One way to define a major religion is by the number of current adherents. The population numbers by religion are computed by a combination of census reports and population surveys (in countries where religion data is not collected in census, for example the United States or France), but results can vary widely depending on the way questions are phrased ...
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.
There are also significant diaspora populations in Europe, North America, the Far East, and East Africa [36]), and Ibadis from the Kharijites whose population has diminished to a level below 0.15%. [37] (with around 1%), [38] non-denominational Muslims, Quranist Muslims and Wahhabis (with around 1–2% [39] of the world's total Muslim ...
Americans have been disaffiliating from organized religion over the past few decades. About 63% of Americans are Christian, according to the Pew Research Center, down from 90% in the early 1990s.
There’s good and there’s bad. America has always been a welcome and tolerant country for immigrants. Currently there are people arguing for our civil rights, and we’re also seeing those who want to smear our entire faith and say that Islam is an inherently violent religion. These are exciting times to be an American Muslim, that’s for sure.
Country [1] Population Christian Muslim Irreligion Hindu Buddhist Folk religion Other religion Jewish Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop.