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Contents. Christianity in Bangladesh. Christians in Bangladesh account for 0.30% (roughly 500,000 believers) of the nation's population as of 2022 census. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Together with Judaism and Buddhism (plus other minority religious groups such as Atheism, Sikhism, the Bahá'í Faith and others), they account for 1% of the population.
Bengali Christians (Bengali: বাঙালি খ্রিস্টান) are adherents of Christianity among the Bengali people. Christianity took root in Bengal after the arrival of Portuguese voyagers in the 16th century. It witnessed further conversions among the Bengali upper-caste elite during the 19th century Bengali Renaissance.
Religion in Bangladesh (2022 Census) [1] Islam (91.04%) Hinduism (7.95%) Buddhism (0.61%) Christianity (0.30%) other religions (0.12%) The United Nations categorizes Bangladesh as a moderate democratic Muslim country. [2][3] Sunni Islam is the largest religion in the country and in all of its districts, except Rangamati. [4][5] The Constitution ...
Bangladesh is one of the few Muslim-majority nations where "proselytizing" i.e. conversions from one religion to another are generally accepted and is legalized by law under article 41 of the constitution, subject to law, public order, and morality. [5] Bangladesh was founded as a secular state, but Islam was made the state religion in the 1980s.
Christian Bengali. William Carey 's translation of the Bible into Bengali was peculiar to mainstream Bengali. It came to be known as "Christian Bengali" and intelligibility of this new dialect was somewhat restricted to educated Bengali Christians. [6] The Bengali converts to Christianity during the British rule were mainly Upper Caste Hindus ...
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dhaka (Latin: Archidioecesis Dhakensis) [1] is the Latin, main Metropolitan diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bangladesh, but no longer the only one. It still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The archdiocese's Marian mother church and thus seat of its ...
The Bangladesh Baptist Church Sangha has its origins in a British mission of the BMS World Mission in 1793. [1] It was officially founded in 1935 as the Bengal Baptist Union. [2] In 2001, it takes the name of Bangladesh Baptist Church Sangha. [3] According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 390 churches and 26,998 members.
Ahmadiyya is a minority religion in Bangladesh. Although the first Bengalis to join the religion did covert during the lifetime of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , the religion was first established as a community in the region of Bengal in 1913 by Syed Muhammad Abdul Wahed, during the Caliphate of Hakeem Noor-ud-Din .