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Christians made and are making substantial contributions to health care and education in Thailand. Facilities such as Saint Louis Hospital, Bangkok Mission Hospital, Camillian Hospital, Bangkok Christian Hospital were once considered to be among the best in the country. Major Christian schools dot the map of Thailand.
Christianity was brought to Siam, now known as Thailand, as early as the sixteenth century.The Protestant faith came with British traders and American missionaries who reached Bangkok in the early years of the 19th century, but made little progress until the country opened to the West during the enlightened reign of King Mongkut Rama IV (1851-1868).
The Catholic Church in Thailand is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. According to Catholic Social Communications of Thailand, as of 2019 [update] there are 388,468 Catholics in Thailand, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] a figure that represents about 0.58% of the Thai population of 69 million.
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] 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.
Several thousand Hindus of Indian origin live in Thailand, mainly in the larger cities. Besides this group of "traditional Hindus", Thailand in its earliest days was under the rule of the Khmer Empire, which had strong Hindu roots, and the influence among Thais remains even today. There are also some ethnic Cham Hindus living in Thailand. [87]
The recorded arrival of Christianity to the Akha people in Thailand is in the 19th century. The Akha Villages traditionally practice Akhazah, which is a religious as well as cultural belief system. Ahkazah is an animistic belief system with various rituals, festivals and spirits that permeate everyday life.
It was founded in 1934 as the Church in Siam with the intent of forming a single ecumenical denomination to include all Protestant churches in Thailand. Other than a small number of American Baptist and British Churches of Christ congregations, most of the original member churches were originally Presbyterian congregations, many of which were started by missionaries from the American ...
Cover of a Thai translation of the Book of Mormon. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) (Thai: ศาสนจักรของพระเยซูคริสต์แห่งวิสุทธิชนยุคสุดท้าย) in Thailand was officially established in 1966 when it was dedicated for missionary work by Gordon B. Hinckley, of the Quourm of the ...