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By 2050, some project Protestantism to rise to slightly more than half of the world's total Christian population. [41] [d] According to Hans J. Hillerbrand, Protestant and Catholic share of the global Christian population will almost be the same by 2050, with Protestants exhibiting a significantly higher growth rate. [42]
The Protestant church has influenced changes in wider culture in Germany, contributing to the debate around bioethics and stem cell research. [25] The Protestant leadership in Germany is divided on the issue of stem cell research; however, those opposing liberalising laws have characterised it as a threat to the sanctity of human life. [26]
The Evangelical Church in Germany (German: Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD), also known as the Protestant Church in Germany, is a federation of twenty Lutheran, Reformed, and United Protestant regional Churches in Germany, collectively encompassing the vast majority of the country's Protestants. [4]
Note that most Calvinist and Lutheran churches in mainland Europe have merged to united Protestant churches (e.g. in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland). Exclusive Lutheranism still prevails in the Nordic countries. There are an estimated twelve million members of United Churches in Europe. [48]
ERF - "Evangeliums-Rundfunk" Protestant broadcaster based in Wetzlar, Germany, with a powerful (800kW) AM radio station, originally targeting Communist East Germany, it can be heard throughout Central Europe with German language programming.
This is a list of the largest Protestant denominations. It aims to include sizable Protestant communions, federations, alliances, councils, fellowships, and other denominational organisations in the world and provides information regarding the membership thereof. The list is inevitably partial and generally based on claims by the denominations ...
Protestant Church in Germany (15 P) R. Reformed denominations in Germany (4 P) ... Protestant church music during and after the Reformation; S. Simultaneum; T ...
Protestant churches by country (34 C) Protestants by nationality ... Protestantism in Germany (11 C, 18 P) Protestantism in Ghana ... This list may not reflect recent ...