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Members of the Jesuit delegation to China were perhaps the most influential of the different Christian missionaries in that country between the earliest period of the religion up until the 19th century, when significant numbers of Catholic and Protestant missions developed.
A Christian state is a country that recognizes a form of Christianity as its official religion and often has a state church (also called an established church), [1] which is a Christian denomination that supports the government and is supported by the government. [2]
Christianity is a widespread minority religion in Asia with more than 286 million adherents according to Pew Research Center in 2010, [30] and nearly 364 million according to Britannica Book of the Year 2014 [31] constituting around 8.5% of the total population of Asia. [31] Only six countries are predominantly Christian: Asian Russia which ...
Christian majority countries in 2010; Countries with 50% or more Christians are colored purple while countries with 10% to 50% Christians are colored pink. [ 1 ] [ needs update ] The European Miracle , the Age of Enlightenment and the formation of the great colonial empires , together with the beginning decline of the Ottoman Empire , mark the ...
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 .
Foreigners, mostly from South Asia and from other Arab countries, constitute an estimated 54% of the population. Approximately half of resident foreigners are non-Muslim, including Hindus, Buddhists, Christians (primarily Roman Catholic, Protestant, Syrian Orthodox, and Mar Thoma from South India), Bahá'ís, and Sikhs.
In the Middle Ages, efforts were made in order to establish a single Christian state of Pan-Christianity by uniting the countries within Christendom. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Christian nationalism may have played a role in this era in which Christians felt the impulse to recover lands in which Christianity flourished. [ 3 ]
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. The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines. [12]