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There are also many other religious groups in North Macedonia, including Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism. In 2011, through a survey carried out by Ipsos MORI , the religious composition of North Macedonia was found to be 70.7% Christian, divided in 69.6% Eastern Orthodox and 0.4% Catholics and Protestants , and 28.6% Muslim , with ...
Macedonian people by religion (5 C) * North Macedonia religion-related lists (1 C) C. Christianity in North Macedonia (8 C, 2 P) I. Islam in North Macedonia (3 C, 8 P) J.
North Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə), [c] officially the Republic of North Macedonia, [d] is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo [e] to the northwest and Serbia to the north. [8]
The Islamic Religious Community of North Macedonia or IRC (Albanian: Bashkësia Fetare Islame e Maqedonisë së Veriut or BFI, Macedonian: Исламската Верска Заедница во Северна Македонија or ИВЗ) is a religious organisation of Muslims in the Republic of North Macedonia. [1]
The most common explanation in North Macedonia of the origin of the term is that the Torbeš sold their faith for a bag (torba in Macedonian) of goods from the Ottomans. [ 16 ] Among other names ascribed to them are Macedonian-speaking Muslims , Našinci , Apovci , Poturi and Turci (Turks). [ 17 ]
They form about 64.18% of the population of North Macedonia (1,297,981 people according to the 2002 census). Smaller numbers live in eastern Albania, northern Greece, and southern Serbia, mostly abutting the border areas of the Republic of North Macedonia. A large number of Macedonians have immigrated overseas to Australia, the United States ...
The Catholic Church in North Macedonia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome and is one of the major religious communities that exist on the territory of the Republic of North Macedonia. Catholic believers from North Macedonia mostly include Albanians, Macedonians and Croats and are most ...
The university conducted a survey of 1.850 Muslims in North Macedonia, which found that 81.6% described themselves as religious, 60.5% of which were very religious. Approximately 22% never went to a mosque(48,6% attend mosque at least once a week) and 17.3% did not pray at home(42,1% pray five times a day).