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Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, professing that Jesus was raised from the dead and is the Son of God, [7] [8] [9] [note 2] whose coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament.
Nicene; Catholic. Latin; Eastern; Old Catholic; Palmarian Catholic; Independent Catholic; Sedevacantism; Eastern Orthodox; Oriental Orthodox; Church of the East ...
In the Indonesian language, the term Nasrani is also used alongside Kristen. The Chinese word is 基督 徒 ( jīdū tú ), literally ' Christ follower ' . The name Christ was originally phonetically written in Chinese as 基利斯督 , which was later abbreviated as 基督 . [ 50 ]
In 1992, the Gereja Kristen Protestan Pakpak-Dairi, of the Pakpak-Dairi people was split from the HKBP. [citation needed] While the traditional Batak church grew through rejecting only 'negative' adat, there is a more recent anti-adat movement among Pentecostalists that perceives non-Christian elements of Batak culture, such as ulos as satanic.
Institut Agama Kristen Negeri Ambon. IAKN Ambon 1 March 2018 Maluku: B 004 State Christian Institute of Toraja. Institut Agama Kristen Negeri Toraja. IAKN Toraja 23 January 2020 South Sulawesi: Good 005 State Christian Institute of Kupang. Institut Agama Kristen Negeri Kupang. IAKN Kupang 23 January 2020 East Nusa Tenggara: Good 006
The terms Christendom or Christian world [2] [3] commonly refer to the global Christian community, Christian states, Christian-majority countries or countries in which Christianity is dominant [4] or prevails.
Converts to Christianity from Islam Total population Between 8.4 million (2014 study) - 10.2 million (2015 study) According to the study 6 million of those converts came from Indonesia; however, the 6 million figure also includes descendants of those converts. Significant numbers of Muslims convert to Christianity in: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, [6] [7] Australia, Austria, [8] Azerbaijan ...
Huria Kristen Batak Protestant is a Lutheran denomination founded by Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen. It is the largest Protestant denomination in Indonesia and has over 4 million congregants. [ 13 ] The relatively large number of "denominations" per capita in Indonesia may be due to the significant number of different ethnic groups in Indonesia .