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The Catholic Church in Canada, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, has the largest number of adherents to a religion in Canada, with 38.7% of Canadians (13.07 million) reported as Catholics in the 2011 National Household Survey, in 72 dioceses across the provinces and territories, served ...
The Catholic church ran three-quarters of the 130 Indian schools in Canada, in which more than 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend Christian schools with the aim of assimilating them into Canadian society.
According to their data at least 85 Catholic churches were damaged by fire or vandalism since May 27, 2021. [21] A report released by CBC News in January 2024 identified 24 arsons and five suspected arsons at Christian churches in Canada after May 2021. Of the 24 arsons, nine resulted in arrests, with law enforcement not identifying a motive in ...
Attempts to restore the Roman Catholic Christian faith in Chile have failed. The Argentine newspaper Clarín reported that Pope Francis's State visit to Chile in 2018 "had been the worst in his five years of pontificate." [135] After the papal visit, the crisis in the Chilean Catholic Church increased. [136]
The Canada Year Book 1936 reported that "of the non-Christian sects, 155,614 or 1.50% were Jews, 24,087 or 0.23% were Confucians, 15,784 or 0.15% were Buddhists and 5,008 or 0.05% were pagans. [65] Domination of Canadian society by Protestant and Catholic elements continued until well into the 20th century.
In contemporary society, Christians are persecuted in Iran and other parts of the Middle East, for example, for proselytising, which is illegal there. [113] [114] [115] Of the 100–200 million Christians alleged to be under assault, the majority are persecuted in Muslim-majority nations. [116]
It has been described by proponents as "an interpretation of Christian faith through the poor's suffering, their struggle and hope, and a critique of society and the Catholic faith and Christianity through the eyes of the poor", [84] and by detractors as Christianized Marxism. [85]
[5] [6] Christians who use the discipline do so as a means of partaking in the mortification of the flesh to aid in the process of sanctification; [7] [8] they also "inflict agony on themselves in order to suffer as Christ and the martyrs suffered."