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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 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.
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.
Christianity further spread eastward under the Parthian Empire, which displayed a high tolerance of religious matters. [7] According to tradition, Christian proselytism in Central Asia, starting with Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau, was put under the responsibility of Saint Thomas the Apostle, and started in the first century AD. [8]
This page includes people of West Asian Christian descent living in diaspora, and those who are West Asian Christians currently living or who have lived in West Asia. Subcategories This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
Asia portal; Christianity portal; Articles related to Christianity by the countries of Asia. Subcategories. This category has the following 52 subcategories, out of ...
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.
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.