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A decline of Christian affiliation in the Western world has been observed in the decades since the end of World War II.While most countries in the Western world were historically almost exclusively Christian, the post-World War II era has seen developed countries with modern, secular educational facilities shifting towards post-Christian, secular, globalized, multicultural and multifaith ...
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.
Reliable data on religious demography is difficult to obtain because an official nationwide census has not been conducted in decades. U.S. government estimates indicate a population of approximately 30.4 million, with Sunni Muslims comprising 80% of the population, Shia Muslims making up about 19%, and other religious groups comprising less than 1%.
This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .
The Pentecostal Mission – 2.5 million [citation needed] Christian Congregation in Brazil – 2.3 million [235] Church of God of Prophecy – 1.5 million [citation needed] Heal Our Land – 1.5 million [236] Pentecostal Church in Indonesia – 1.5 million [citation needed] Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa – 1.2 million [citation needed]
First Baptist's pastor, Ryan Burge, spends much of his time as a researcher documenting the dramatic decline in religious affiliation in recent decades. Burge has witnessed the reality of his ...
A 2013 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute reported that 31% of Americans attend religious services at least weekly. [2] In 2006, a world-wide online Harris Poll surveyed 2,010 U.S. adults [56] and found that 26% of those surveyed attended religious services "every week or more often", 9% went "once or twice a month", 21% went "a ...
The heart of Easter is not religion but love ... and what it means to be human. | Op-ed by Rev. Dave Brown