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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.
Christianity and Islam are the two largest religions in the world, with approximately 2.8 billion and 1.9 billion adherents, respectively. [1][2] Both religions are Abrahamic and monotheistic, having originated in the Middle East. Christianity developed out of Second Temple Judaism in the 1st century CE.
The full quote for affiliation on page 3 (google translate) is "Albanian Muslims are 56.70%, 10.03% Catholics, 6.75% Orthodox, 2.09% Bektashi, 0.14% evangelicals. 5.49% other and 2.5% atheists. The number of those who preferred not to answer this question is 13.79% of the total population". ^ "Algeria".
By total number of adherents, Christianity and Islam comprise the largest and second-largest religious movements in the world, respectively. [7] [page needed] Judaism is the smallest of the three major Abrahamic religions. Samaritanism is the smallest Abrahamic religion. Bábism, and Druzism are offshoots of Abrahamic religions. [8]
Christians in Bahrain number 205,000 people. In the 5th century, Bahrain was a center of Nestorian Christianity, including two of its bishoprics. [68] The ecclesiastical province covering Bahrain was known as Bet Qatraye. [69] Samahij was the seat of bishops. Bahrain was a center of Nestorian Christianity until al-Bahrain adopted Islam in 629 ...
Islam is the most widely followed religion in the Middle East. About 20% of the world's Muslims live in the Middle East, and about 85 percent of people in the Middle East are Muslim. [ 8 ] Islam is a monotheistic religion, teaching belief in one God (Allah) and is based on the Quran. [ 8 ] Muslims believe that Muhammad is the final prophet of ...
Lebanon holds the largest number of Christians in the Arab world proportionally and falls just behind Egypt in absolute numbers. About 350,000-450,000 of Christians in Lebanon are Orthodox and Melkites, while the most dominant group are Maronites with about 1 million population, whose Arab identity is contentiously disputed. [ 290 ]
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