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Christianity has been estimated [1] to be growing rapidly in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. [85] In Africa, for instance, in 1900, there were only 8.7 million [ 1 ] adherents of Christianity; now there are 390 million, [ 1 ] and it is expected that by 2025 there will be 600 million Christians in Africa. [ 1 ]
Christianity is the predominant religion in all U.S. states and territories. Conversion into Christianity has significantly increased among Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans in the United States. In 2012, the percentage of Christians in these communities were 71%, 30% and 37% respectively. [14]
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 ...
The survey interviewed over 22,000 adults in 50 states, measuring respondents’ affinity for the following statements: the U.S. government should declare America a Christian nation; U.S. laws ...
In mid-2005 Christianity adds about 65.1 million people annually due to factors such as birth rate and religious conversion, while losing 27.4 million people annually due to factors such as death rate and religious apostasy. Most of the net growth in the numbers of Christians is in Africa, Latin America and Asia. [77]
Christian nationalism is the idea that America is a distinctly Christian nation. But there’s a whole set of descriptors that go along with this that we see over and over again. There’s this ...
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 ...