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Christianity is still the largest religion in Europe. [51] According to a survey about Religiosity in the European Union in 2019 by Eurobarometer, Christianity was the largest religion in the European Union accounting 64% of EU population, [18] down from 72% in 2012. [20]
Religion in the European Union is diverse. The largest religion in the EU is Christianity , which accounted for 72.8% of EU population as of 2018 [update] . [ 2 ] Smaller groups include those of Islam , Buddhism , Judaism , Hinduism , and some East Asian religions , most concentrated in Germany and France.
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] 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.
Christianity is the predominant religion in Europe. [2] Christianity has been practiced in Europe since the first century, and a number of the Pauline Epistles were addressed to Christians living in Greece, as well as other parts of the Roman Empire.
The world's principal religions and spiritual traditions may be classified into a small number of major groups, though this is not a uniform practice. This theory began in the 18th century with the goal of recognizing the relative degrees of civility in different societies, [2] but this concept of a ranking order has since fallen into disrepute in many contemporary cultures.
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 .
In European countries which were most profoundly influenced by the Reformation, Protestantism still remains the most practiced religion. [5] These include the Nordic countries and United Kingdom . [ 5 ] [ 14 ] In other historical Protestant strongholds such as Germany , the Netherlands , Switzerland , Latvia , Estonia and Hungary , it remains ...
It had the sense now taken by Christianity (as is still the case with the cognate Dutch christendom, [12] where it denotes mostly the religion itself, just like the German Christentum). [13] The current sense of the word of "lands where Christianity is the dominant religion" [4] emerged in Late Middle English (by c. 1400). [14]