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The Protestant Christian Church – 0.5 million [90] Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia – 0.4 million [101] Evangelical Free Church of America – 0.4 million [105] The Indonesian Christian Church – 0.3 million [90] Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ – 0.3 million [106]
Some churches in Scotland and Northern Ireland, mainly of the splinter off Presbyterian tradition, have used the name 'Free Church'. The most important of these to persist at the present time is the Free Church of Scotland.The mainline Church of Scotland is the national church which is Presbyterian and the mother kirk for Presbyterianism all over the world, and is not part of the "Free Church".
NewSong is an American contemporary Christian music group that was established in 1981, at Morningside Baptist Church in Valdosta, Georgia. [1] They have had twelve GMA Dove Award nominations, and one Grammy Award Nomination.
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.
In other countries, the term Nonconformist is used in a broader sense to refer to Christians who are not communicants of a majority national church, such as the Lutheran Church of Sweden. [5] The largest Nonconformist church in Sweden, the Uniting Church in Sweden , was formed by merging the Baptist Union of Sweden , the United Methodist Church ...
Some people passed as adhering to the official church, but instead lived as Nicodemites or crypto-protestants. [58] The European wars of religion are usually taken to have ended with the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), [59] or arguably, including the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession in this period, with the Treaty of Utrecht ...
Steven R. Harmon, a Baptist theologian who supports ecumenism, argues that "there's really no such thing" as a nondenominational church, because "as soon as a supposedly non-denominational church has made decisions about what happens in worship, whom and how they will baptize, how and with what understanding they will celebrate holy communion ...
The 2018 World Watch List has the following countries as its top ten: North Korea, and Eritrea, whose Christian and Muslim religions are controlled by the state, and Afghanistan, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, India and Iran, which are all predominantly non-Christian. [117]