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Christianity is reportedly the fastest growing religion in Iran with an average annual rate of 5.2%. [166] A 2015 study estimates between 100,000 and 500,000 believers Christians from a Muslim background living in Iran, most of them evangelical Christians. [113]
Statistically, Eastern Orthodox Christians are among the wealthiest Christian denominations in the United States, [39] and they also tend to be better educated than most other religious groups in America, in the sense that they have a high number of graduate (68%) and post-graduate degrees (28%) per capita.
According to research by Christerson and Flory, "INC Christianity is the fastest-growing Christian group in America and possibly around the world." While overall Protestant church attendance shrunk by 0.05% on average per year between 1970 and 2010, "independent neo-charismatic congregations", of which INC congregations are a subset, grew by an ...
Christian population % of the world population Follower dynamics Dynamics inside and outside Christianity Catholicism: 1,200,000,000 52.4 15.9 Growing Stable Protestantism: 800,640,000 34.9 11.6 Growing Growing Orthodoxy: 260,380,000 11.4 3.8 Growing Growing Other Christianity: 28,430,000 1.3 0.4 Growing Growing Christianity 2,289,450,000 100 ...
According to scholar Keith Smith of Georgia State University "many scholars claim that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious phenomenon in human history", [19] and according to scholar Peter L. Berger of Boston University "the spread of Pentecostal Christianity may be the fastest growing movement in the history of religion". [68]
Bart D. Ehrman attributes the rapid spread of Christianity to five factors: (1) the promise of salvation and eternal life for everyone was an attractive alternative to Roman religions; (2) stories of miracles and healings purportedly showed that the one Christian God was more powerful than the many Roman gods; (3) Christianity began as a ...
Chris Paulsen, CEO of LGBTQ+ rights advocacy group Indiana Youth Group, voiced concern that children can receive Christian religious instruction during the school day “yet no one can talk about ...
The various denominations of Christianity fall into several large families, shaped both by culture and history. Christianity arose in the first century AD after Rome had conquered much of the western parts of the fragmented Hellenistic empire created by Alexander the Great. The linguistic and cultural divisions of the first century AD Roman ...