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West Asian Christians (13 C) Asian Christian socialists (3 C, 3 P) A. Afghan Christians (1 C, 2 P) Asian Catholics (2 C, 1 P) B. Bangladeshi Christians (3 C, 11 P)
The development of Islam in the late 7th century further cut off Asian Christianity from the Western Christians, but eastern expansion of the faith continued nonetheless. Relations with Islam were good enough for the Catholicos to leave Seleucia-Ctesiphon to set up his seat in Baghdad upon the establishment of the Abbassids in 750.
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 United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines. [12]
The following is a list of notable people who converted to Christianity from a different religion or no religion. This article addresses only past voluntary professions of faith by the individuals listed, and is not intended to address ethnic, cultural, or other considerations such as Marriage. Certain people listed here may be lapsed or former ...
Articles related to Christianity by the countries of Asia. Subcategories. This category has the following 52 subcategories, out of 52 total. ...
Asian Christians (29 C) Christian clergy in Asia (10 C) Christian democracy in Asia (2 C) Christian denominations in Asia (19 C, 17 P) Christian organizations based ...
Asian Christians (29 C) Asian Hindus (19 C) Asian Jews (12 C, 2 P) Asian Muslims (26 C) * Central Asian people by religion (3 C) West Asian people by religion (4 C) A.
Islam is the second largest religion in Asia with about 1.2 billion adherents. [53] [54] Asia constitute in absolute terms the world's Muslim population. [55] South and Southeast Asia are home of the most populous Muslim countries, with Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Malaysia having more than 100 million adherents.