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  2. Christendom - Wikipedia

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    Christendom [2] [3] refers to Christian states, Christian-majority countries or countries in which Christianity is dominant [4] or prevails. [2]Following the spread of Christianity from the Levant to Europe and North Africa during the early Roman Empire, Christendom has been divided in the pre-existing Greek East and Latin West.

  3. List of Christian democratic parties - Wikipedia

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    The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social teaching and Neo-Calvinist theology. [1] [2] Christian democracy continues to be influential in Europe and Latin America, though in a number of countries its Christian ethos has been diluted by secularisation.

  4. Christianity by country - Wikipedia

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    According to a 2012 Pew Research Center study, of the then 232 countries and territories, 157 had Christian majorities. [ 10 ] Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe , the Americas , the Philippines , East Timor , Sub-Saharan Africa , and Oceania . [ 11 ]

  5. Christian democracy - Wikipedia

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    Christian democracy fosters an "ecumenical unity achieved on the religious level against the atheism of the government in the Communist countries." [nb 5] Christian democrats' views include traditional moral values (on marriage, abortion, prohibition of drugs, etc.), [38] opposition to secularization, opposition to state atheism, a view of the ...

  6. Religious information by country - Wikipedia

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    note: Ukraine's population is overwhelmingly Christian; the vast majority - up to two-thirds - identify themselves as Orthodox, but many do not specify a particular branch; the UOC-KP and the UOC-MP each represent less than a quarter of the country's population, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church accounts for 8-10%, and the UAOC accounts for 1 ...

  7. Christian state - Wikipedia

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    As a Christian state, Armenia "embraced Christianity as the religion of the King, the nobles, and the people". [3] In 326, according to official tradition of the Georgian Orthodox Church, following the conversion of Mirian and Nana, the country of Georgia became a Christian state, the Emperor Constantine the Great sending clerics for baptising ...

  8. Christianity and politics - Wikipedia

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    The foundation of Christian anarchism is a rejection of violence, with Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You regarded as a key text. [37] [38] Tolstoy takes the viewpoint that all governments who wage war, and churches who in turn support those governments, are an affront to the Christian principles of nonviolence and nonresistance.

  9. List of current Christian leaders - Wikipedia

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    The following is a current list of the highest-ranking leaders in major Christian churches or denominations. The list is in descending order based on the number of congregants. The list is in descending order based on the number of congregants.