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St. Barbara Church, Tsumeb, Namibia Christianity in Namibia comprises more than 90 percent of the population. [1] The largest Christian group is the Lutheran church, which is split into three churches: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN), which grew out of the work of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (earlier known as the Finnish Missionary Society) which began in 1870 ...
The largest Christian group in Namibia is the Lutheran church, which consists of 3 church denominations. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN) grew out of the work of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (earlier known as the Finnish Missionary Society) which began in 1870 among the Ovambo and Kavango people.
The Catholic Church in Namibia is part of the Catholic Church under the universal, direct jurisdiction of the supreme Vicar of Christ, the Bishop of Rome and the Catholic world, the Pope. As of 2024, there were 693,000 Catholics in Namibia , about 22.8% of the total population; [ 1 ] there were 101 priests and 452 nuns serving across 99 parishes.
The 2011 Population and Housing Census counted 2,113,077 inhabitants of Namibia. Between 2001 and 2011 the annual population growth was 1.4%, down from 2.6% in the previous ten–year period. [4] In 2011 the total fertility rate was 3.6 children per woman, down from 4.1 in 2001.
The Council of Churches in Namibia (CCN) is an ecumenical organisation in Namibia. Its member churches together represent 1.5 million people, 90% of the population of Namibia. [1] It is a member of the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa. [2]
As of the year 2023, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents and is the largest religion by population. [2] According to a PEW estimation in 2020, Christians made up to 2.38 billion of the worldwide population of about 8 billion people.
Countries with the greatest proportion of people without religion, including agnostics and atheists, from Irreligion by country (as of 2020): [42] Nonreligious population by country as of 2010 [43] Czech Republic 78.4% North Korea 71.3% Estonia 60.2% Hong Kong 54.7% China 51.8% New Zealand 48.2% [44] South Korea 46.6% Latvia 45.3%
The various denominations of Christianity fall into several large families, shaped both by culture and history. Christianity arose in the first century AD after Rome had conquered much of the western parts of the fragmented Hellenistic empire created by Alexander the Great. The linguistic and cultural divisions of the first century AD Roman ...