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The second largest Baptist denomination in the world. It is considered a black church with its membership being largely African American. Nigerian Baptist Convention: Baptist: 1915 Rev. Dr. Samson Olasupo Adeniyi Ayokunle, President (and chief executive officer) Ibadan: Nigeria: 6,500,000 [27] The world's third largest Baptist denomination.
According to Mark Juergensmeyer of the University of California, "popular Protestantism" (that is to say all forms of Protestantism with the notable exception of the historical denominations deriving from the Protestant Reformation) is the most dynamic religious movement in the contemporary world, alongside resurgent Islam.
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.
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
The National Baptist Convention, USA, is one of four major Black Baptist denominations in the U.S. and is the oldest and largest of the four. The denomination, with between 5.2 million and 7.5 ...
According to a 2019 study, Protestant share of U.S. population dropped to 43%, further ending its status as religion of the majority. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] The decline is attributed mainly to the dropping membership of the Mainline Protestant churches [ 35 ] [ 37 ] and even among Evangelical Protestant churches [ 38 ] [ 39 ] while Black churches ...
BALTIMORE — The sole candidate in a high-stakes election for leadership in the nation’s largest Black Protestant denomination achieved a convincing victory Thursday, a disappointing outcome ...
With 4,000 circuit riders by 1844, the Methodist Episcopal Church rapidly became the largest Protestant denomination in the country. St. George's United Methodist Church, located at the corner of 4th and New Streets, in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, is the oldest Methodist church in continuous use in the United States, beginning in ...