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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.
Trinity Broadcasting Network TBN is the world's largest religious network and America's most watched faith channel. In 1973, Paul and Jan Crouch founded the network with the flagship show entitled "Praise the Lord". TBN offers 24 hours of commercial-free inspirational programming for Protestant, Catholic and Messianic Jewish denominations.
The show was conceived and presented by Yorkshire Television's Head of Children's Programmes, Jess Yates and ran for a decade. Serious documentary-style religious content emerged in the 1970s, with the BBC's Everyman, and ITV's Credo programme series'. Religious broadcasting declined in the later 1970s and 1980s.
Today there exist a large variety of groups that share a common history and tradition within and without mainstream Christianity. Christianity is the largest religion in the world (making up approximately one-third of the population) and the various divisions have commonalities and differences in tradition, theology , church government ...
Charismatic Christianity is an overarching grouping of connected beliefs and practices, and is not itself strictly defined within specific practices. Denominations within the grouping share a spirituality characterized by a worldview where miracles , signs and wonders , and other supernatural occurrences are expected to be present in the lives ...
Christian theology has permeated much of non-ecclesiastical Western culture, especially in pre-modern Europe, although Christianity is a worldwide religion. Theological spectrum [ edit ]
Growing extremism. Alberta visited churches across the country and concluded that many evangelical Christians have descended further into conspiracy theories and talk of violence in the nearly ...
Christianity, like other religions, has adherents whose beliefs and biblical interpretations vary. Christianity regards the biblical canon, the Old Testament and the New Testament, as the inspired word of God. The traditional view of inspiration is that God worked through human authors so that what they produced was what God wished to communicate.